📍 Gaza ⚔️ Gaza 📍 Residents waking to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory Middle East crisis – live updates Israeli forces have been moving an agreed truce line in Gaza westwards over the six months since the ceasefire, expanding their zone of control…
📍 Tehran ⚔️ Iran 🪖 Iranian hardliners rallied late on Tuesday night with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards apparently bringing ballistic missiles to parade in Tehran. Donald Trump had earlier said he was extending the ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request, while awaiting a ‘unified proposal’ from Tehran Middle East crisis live: latest news updates…
📍 West Bank ⚔️ Gaza ⚔️ Local officials and witnesses say attackers shot at students first then at those who arrived to help Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy, have been killed in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers opened fire near a school amid mounting assaults on education in the territory, witnesses and…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran’s goal is to maintain chokehold on the global economy, even as some say it could run out of oil storage by Sunday Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump’s indefinite shelving of the plan to bomb Iran’s bridges and power stations on Tuesday night is being…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 🕊️ Iranian forces seize two ships in critical waterway as Washington and Tehran maintain separate blockades Middle East crisis – live updates Iranian forces have seized two ships in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the shipping waterway. The…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Lebanon ⚔️ Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed a journalist on Wednesday after rescuers were blocked from accessing the building where she was buried under rubble because of further Israeli fire, according…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 This blog is now closed. Follow our new live blog on the Middle East crisis here If you’re just joining us, here’s the main news of the day. It is 9.30am in Tehran, 9am in Jerusalem and Beirut, and 2am in Washington DC. Donald Trump unilaterally said he…
📍 Gaza (approximate area) ⚔️ Gaza 📍 While the population of southern Lebanon have sometimes felt abandoned by their own state, a show in London told their stories and celebrated their resistance In one room of London’s Palestine House, a large screen plays looped news footage from southern Lebanon. Tanks and armoured vehicles plough their…
📍 Tehran ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran’s plan to extract a $2m payment from tankers using the strait of Hormuz could raise costs for years to come A second round of peace talks between the US and Iran has begun amid renewed attacks on oil tankers in the strait of Hormuz and a US blockade on…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released footage purportedly showing its forces seizing two vessels in the strait of Hormuz and escorting them to Iranian shores. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said the two ships attempted ‘to exit the strait of Hormuz covertly’. The White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said President…