News today of intense GPS jamming in Israel could lead to more unlikely dating app encounters between Israelis and Lebanese.

Me and Nada Maucourant Atallah looked at the topic in March

thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/03/0…

A piece about child cancer patients from Gaza stranded in a Jerusalem hospital and the doctors grappling with the saddest moment in their careers

thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

90,000 people were displaced from south #Lebanon , and 60,000 Israelis have been evacuated. The situation is escalating. The Big war is looming large.

Excellent writing and reporting from border towns by Nada Homsi,
Nada Maucourant Atallah and Thomas Helm

thenationalnews.com/mena/lebanon/2…

Dating app users in Lebanon and Israel are baffled to see the enemy on their feeds. Love in a hopeless place, as one friend said. thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/03/0…

Israelis in the north of the country are torn over whether a war with Hezbollah, which would devastate their communities, is the only way to guarantee long-term security.

thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

More details and video footage coming out about the Israeli undercover assault on Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin that killed three Palestinians

thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

Settler vandalism risks making European aid in the West Bank redundant
- Thomas Helm reports thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

Vital infrastructure paid for by European countries in the West Bank is being destroyed by Israeli settlers

It is worth hundreds of thousands of euros. Money comes from countries like Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, all staunch defenders of Israel

rb.gy/uh6o2p

“Half a year ago, settlers were beating Palestinians up in civilian clothes – now they come in uniform to beat them up.

“It is no longer that the army is supporting them. They are the army.”

Article on changing nature of settler violence in West Bank

thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

Despatch from Israel-Lebanon border where Israeli forces are on high alert amid fears that cross-border clashes could escalate at any moment

Thomas Helm reports:

The green expanse around Israel's northern border with Lebanon should be full of tourists, but for more than three

'Abu Hadid, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighter, sits on a plush white and gold sofa and fiddles with a bomb.

Gunpowder spills out of the cylinder-like device as he turns it over in his tattooed hands.'

Latest dispatch from Jenin with Willy Lowry

thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/10/2…

“Abu Hadid, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighter, sits on a plush white and gold sofa and fiddles with a home-made bomb.”

Willy Lowry and Thomas Helm interview Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in the West Bank the day before an Israeli raid.

thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/10/2…

Abu Bashar, a Bedouin shepherd who has just been displaced from his land, is an untold story within a massive story. A piece on how Palestinian communities outside Gaza are being wiped out in the fog of war

thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

A conversation with my friend and former boss Charlotte Leslie✨💎 of CMEC UK & MENA on the war in Gaza and Israel

cmec.org.uk/insights-analy…

Jundiye, a 30-year-old farmhand who had been working in Israel legally, said Israrli authorities rounded him and other workers from Gaza and forced them into the West Bank.

Important reporting from Willy Lowry Thomas Helm

thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

Rockets in Jerusalem. Appears one could have landed, Israeli ambulance service says. Important moment if so because they have all been intercepted until now I believe.

Waseem in Gaza on Israel's intensified blockade:

We can’t stockpile fuel or food. There are no generators to buy. There are no shops.

There was a big one near me. The occupation strikes destroyed it.

We have been here before, but not at this level There is no plan B.

Medics rushed to Israel’s south as Gaza braced for another night of strikes

Just been stopped on the road as Israeli troops traded fire with Palestinian gunmen who drove from Gaza to Ashdod. It is quite something elderly reservists clad in body armour getting ready to fight. The Israelis really are drafting everyone.

Al Qassem brigades will release the number of Israeli hostages in the coming hours, a source in Gaza says. That will be one of the main milestones of the day