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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
ByGeneva Abdul October 17, 2025

Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in GazaIt is a black hole, the director and writer Annemarie Jacir tells me of the year 193…

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Infectious diseases in Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’, says WHO – as it happened
ByAmy Sedghi October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

UN official says: ‘Whether meningitis … diarrhoea, respiratory illnesses, we’re talking about a mammoth amount of work’. This live blog is closedGaza aid still critically scarce, say agenciesWe’ve got a bit more from the UN’s World Food Programme on th…

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Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
ByJason Burke International security correspondent October 17, 2025

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivalsThroughout Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, aid officials working in the territory avoided naming Hamas in conversations they suspected m…

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Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
ByJason Burke International security correspondent October 17, 2025

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivalsThroughout Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, aid officials working in the territory avoided naming Hamas in conversations they suspected m…

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Comedy in Riyadh is a sign of progress | Letter
ByGuardian staff October 16, 2025

Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi ArabiaWhat the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia …

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Comedy in Riyadh is a sign of progress | Letter
ByGuardian staff October 16, 2025

Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi ArabiaWhat the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia …

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‘I can breathe again’: Israel’s Zikim beach open for first time since 7 October attack
ByDaniel Boffey in Zikim October 16, 2025

Sunbathers return to sands immediately north of Gaza with feelings of relief and loss after killings here two years agoGaza ceasefire – live updatesFrom the clean soft sands of Zikim beach or its sky-blue and turquoise waters, where on Thursday waves g…

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While the eyes of the world are on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank still behave with impunity | Ofer Cassif
ByOfer Cassif October 16, 2025

As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring hollowLast Monday, when the US president, Donald Trump, addressed the Knesset alongside the Israeli prime m…

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At 12 an Israeli missile ‘ripped off’ her face. Now Mazyouna is safe in the US – but not all the scars have healed
ByThaslima Begum October 16, 2025

The young teenager’s treatment is a rare story of hope from the two-year war in Gaza. With the ceasefire now in effect, she hopes to see her father againIn June 2024, an Israeli missile struck 13-year-old Mazyouna Damoo’s apartment in Nuseirat refugee …

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In Gaza, we are picking up our lives amid the remnants of war, fear of Israel’s return haunting every step | Sondos Sabra
BySondos Sabra October 16, 2025

There is a continuing trauma and new threats to our safety from gangs who terrorise us. Our ordeal has changed, but it’s far from overThe war has ended, and it’s time for me to return to my coffee, my bread and my poetry. Yet I don’t know what it means…

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