“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 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…

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

“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…

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

Settler vandalism risks making European aid in the West Bank redundant - Thomas Helm reports 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

FPA Statement on Israel returning AP broadcast equipment

Jerusalem braces itself for ultra-nationalist Flag March on Wednesday. One expert and longtime resident says the event is an "abomination" that has the potential to spark a regional war. thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024…

. Thomas Helm and I wrote about how #Israel is trying to shut down UNRWA schools in #Jerusalem, as part of longer running efforts to erase the Palestinian curriculum in the city. thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025…

Israeli forces fire at group of around 30 diplomatic missions in Jenin, including close allies Canada, Netherlands and UK. One diplomat there tells The National that "around six shots" fired after group was standing at military barrier. "Was all coordinated with IDF before."

“Lands cultivated with love are being burnt," Father Bashar Fawadleh said. "Citizens are terrorised at night and besieged by day. We are surrounded by iron gates, choked by military checkpoints, as if we are strangers in our own land." Thomas Helm thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025…

"Small cells of 3-4 young tho active #Hamas members [...] have been forming in #Gaza. Many of them are preparing for suicide missions that wouldn't turn the war's tide but constitute an irritant to Israel's military." By Hamza H. & Thomas Helm thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025…

"Revealed: UK embassy worker in Tel Aviv owns property in settlement built by movement sanctioned by Britain. Government described Amana organisation as ‘funding Israeli settlers involved in perpetrating acts of violence against Palestinian communities’" thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025…

فضيحة موظفة السفارة البريطانية في تل أبيب...تقرير مهم لصحيفة ذا ناشونال نيوز من مراسلها في القدس توماس هيلم @thomasFhelm The National youtu.be/o8XVdvnDqdI?si…