Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza War 23-25

Israel's war on Gaza: the last chapter?

The escalating conflict and humanitarian catastrophe

27 SEPTEMBER 2025, 

SOHAIL MAHMOOD

Israel's bombing of Gaza City continues unabated as it carries out an offensive on the suburbs of Gaza City for weeks after Netanyahu ordered his military to capture it. The city and its surrounding region are currently experiencing a famine, the UN says, after Israel severely restricted aid flows. Israel orders Gaza evacuation as it prepares for a major attack. On September 9, 2025, Israel ordered residents of Gaza City out, after it said it was about to obliterate the area in an assault to wipe out Hamas. Residents of the city, home to a million Palestinians before the war, have been expecting an onslaught for weeks, since the Israeli government devised a plan to deal Hamas a fatal blow in what it says are the militant group's last strongholds.

Jennifer Lawrence on Gaza / ‘What’s happening is no less than a genocide’

 

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence on Gaza: ‘What’s happening is no less than a genocide’

Oscar-winning actor says she’s ‘terrified’ over Israel’s deadly war and spoke about fears over erosion of free speech in US

Adrian Horton

Fruday 26 September 2025

Jennifer Lawrence has spoken up about Israel’s war in Gaza and censorship in the US.

Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza ahead of potential White House talks on ceasefire

 

Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza ahead of potential White House talks on ceasefire

Joe Coughlan (now) and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

Mon 30 Jun 2025 13.51 BST

Israel is continuing its relentless bombardment of Gaza after tens of thousands of Palestinians fled eastern parts of Gaza City in the north of the territory on Sunday after Israel warned of a major new offensive.

At least 25 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, health authorities said in an updated toll, including 10 people killed in Zeitoun in southern Gaza City.

Two people seeking aid were also killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution centre in southern Rafah, sources at the Nasser medical complex told Al Jazeera.

The attacks come as Israeli officials are due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the US, which is fuelling the war by providing weapons to the Israeli military.

Israel’s strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer is expected at the White House later today for talks on Iran and Gaza, an Israeli official said.

In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet is expected to convene to discuss the next steps in its widening assault on Gaza.

The Israeli prime minister has been accused of deliberately prolonging ceasefire negotiations – and blocking their progress – to ensure his own political survival by having the war continue.

THE GUARDIAN

 

Palestinian children mourn over the body of their father who was killed while heading to a food distribution hub in Gaza City.

Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi/

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli forces kill 11 Palestinians awaiting food trucks, say Gaza officials

IDF ‘looking into’ incident in central Gaza, as over a hundred die in recent days near or along routes to distribution sites

Jason Burke and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza

Wed 18 Jun 2025 17.17 BST

Eleven Palestinians were killed early on Wednesday morning after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for food trucks in central Gaza, civil defence officials in the devastated territory have said.

From top left, clockwise: Jeanette Winterson, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh.

Israel-Gaza war

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

Ella Creamer

Wed 28 May 2025 05.00 BST

Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letterstating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.

 

Siwar Ashour, born in November, has only known war. Her mother, Najwa Aram, 23, gave birth in the one surviving room of a house that was otherwise destroyed and which 11 other people were sharing.

 
Photo by Doa Albaz

Israel-Gaza war

A picture that shocked the world: the story behind baby Siwar Ashour

Six-month-old Palestinian girl’s painfully emaciated body symbolised starvation in Gaza

Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger

Mon 12 May 2025 

Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment.

 

Palestinians receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia inthe northern Gaza Strip.

Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

Gaza

Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade

Report by UN-backed consortium of specialists tells of ‘major deterioration’ since its last assessment in October

Jason Burke
Monday 12 May 2025

Gaza is at “critical risk of famine”, food security experts have warned, 10 weeks after Israelimposed a blockade on the devastated Palestinian territory, cutting off all supplies including food, medicine, shelter and fuel.