Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday night in Tel Aviv, demanding the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas that would see the remaining Israeli hostages brought home from Gaza. Israeli authorities estimate that 129 hostages, who were abducted during a Hamas-led attack on 7 October, are still being held captive....

Pro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ‘international student revolt’ Students across Britain have said they hope pro-Palestine protests will reach the same scale as those seen on US campuses as they call for universities to divest from companies supplying arms to Israel.Protests have spread across university...

Word of the demonstrations that have spread across the west has cheered some in Gaza’s southernmost cityMiddle East crisis – live updatesIn the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US have been followed closely.“We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw...

The protests sweeping US universities have brought intense division, but some students have treasured hope, unity, solidarity and loveSeven months ago, before Hamas stormed into Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, Eleanora Ginsborg and Samar Omer had never met.But in the attack’s violent aftermath, Ginsborg and Omer,...

Annual tour shows war-torn capital is still alive with invention and reflectionA buzz is building in the Bab al-Sharji neighbourhood in central Baghdad where preparations for an annual contemporary arts festival are underway. The city has long been considered one of the most dangerous in the world but artists in the Tarkib collective want to send a...

Hopes for deal rise as militant group continues talks on new Israeli proposal; protests around Israel call on PM to accept deal for return of hostagesAt least 34,683 Palestinian people have been killed and 78,018 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.Most of the casualties have been...