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UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
ByMark Townsend November 7, 2025

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El FasherBritain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic clea…

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UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
ByMark Townsend October 24, 2025

Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRCBritain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly …

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UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
ByMark Townsend October 24, 2025

Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRCBritain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly …

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Gaza’s children needed a ceasefire – now they desperately need the aid that will keep them alive | Alison Griffin
ByAlison Griffin October 18, 2025

The youngest and most vulnerable have suffered extreme mental and physical trauma. We can help – but we must be granted immediate accessAlison Griffin is head of conflict and humanitarian campaigns at Save the Children UKIn the last few days, we have s…

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Body handed over by Hamas is not hostage, says Israel, as Palestinian dead ‘arrive back in cuffs’
ByDaniel Boffey in Jerusalem October 15, 2025

Israel says one of four bodies handed over by Hamas on Tuesday night is not a missing hostageGaza ceasefire – live updatesOne of the four bodies handed over by Hamas is not a missing hostage, Israel has said.Meanwhile a hospital in Gaza said the 45 ano…

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Gaza humanitarian aid trickles in as ceasefire comes into effect – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian October 15, 2025

The UN’s World Food Programme said it has dispatched more than 130 trucks of aid to the Gaza Strip since Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday. The fragile agreement faced its first test when Israel said on Tuesday the flow of vital humani…

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Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostage remains as ceasefire faces test
ByJason Burke and Daniel Boffey in Jerusalem October 14, 2025October 14, 2025

Hamas accused of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of hostages but Palestinian militants say they face obstacles in retrieving themThe fragile ceasefire in Gaza faced its first test on Tuesday when Israel said the flow of aid into the devastate…

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Monday briefing: What a new investigation tells us about the shooting of Palestinians at Gaza aid sites
ByAamna Mohdin August 11, 2025

In today’s newsletter: A Guardian investigation uncovers chilling evidence that civilians in Gaza appear to have been targeted by coordinated gunfire during food distributionsGood morning. In May 2025, Israel dismantled the United Nations-led humanita…

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Israel’s assault on humanitarian norms | Letter
ByGuardian staff August 5, 2025

Dr Lee Mordechai and Prof Liat Kozma of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem respond to an article from a senior aid official in GazaWe are Israeli historians teaching in Jerusalem who have been writing publicly about the war since early 2024. The proces…

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I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
ByJonathan Whittall August 3, 2025

Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewedJonathan Whittall is head of office at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied …

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