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SNP election candidate’s distress for her family as bombs fall in Gaza

12/05/2021

People inspect the rubble of a damaged building which was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City (Adel Hana/AP)

Dozens killed in worst Middle East violence since 2014 war

12/05/2021

Humza Yousaf.

Scotland’s justice secretary Humza Yousaf fears for wife’s Gaza family as rockets ‘rain’ down

12/05/2021

Boris Johnson has expressed concern at the escalating violence in the Middle East (Khalil Hamra/AP)

UK

Johnson appeals for restraint as Israeli-Palestinian clashes escalate

12/05/2021

Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City (AP)

Escalating violence in Middle East worst since 2014 war

12/05/2021

Gaza City’s police headquarters has been destroyed after Israel launched dozens of air strikes and the death toll rose in its worsening conflict with Hamas (Adel Hana/AP)

Israel rockets destroy Gaza City police headquarters, Hamas says

12/05/2021

Mohamed Salah (Peter Powell/PA)

UK

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah asks world leaders to end ‘killing of innocent people’

11/05/2021

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Tel Aviv under fire as clashes between Israel and Hamas escalate

11/05/2021

An Israeli firefighter walks next to cars hit by a missile fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Rockets kill two Israelis as 28 killed in Gaza strikes

11/05/2021

A Palestinian searches for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed roof of a residential building in Gaza City which was hit by Israeli missile strike (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Israeli air strikes hit Hamas commander’s home and Gaza tunnels

11/05/2021

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Monday, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

20 killed in Gaza as Israel responds to Hamas rocket barrage

10/05/2021

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Hamas fires rockets deep into Israel as tensions escalate

10/05/2021

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Israeli police and Palestinians clash at holy site in Jerusalem

10/05/2021

Palestinians run from stun grenades fired by Israeli police officers during clashes at Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City (Oded Balilty/AP)

What is behind the clashes in Jerusalem?

10/05/2021

A Palestinian man runs away from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces in front of the Dome of the Rock Mosque at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Hundreds hurt as Israeli police clash with Palestinians at Jerusalem holy site

10/05/2021

Israeli police have faced off with Palestinian protesters in east Jerusalem as the holy city’s worst religious unrest in several years continued (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Dozens injured as Israeli police clash with Palestinians at Jerusalem holy site

10/05/2021

Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian demonstrator during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of east Jerusalem (Oded Balilty/AP)

Israeli police and Palestinian protesters clash during holiest night of Ramadan

09/05/2021

Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse Palestinian protesters near the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem (AP)

More unrest feared as Israeli police bolster presence in Jerusalem

08/05/2021

Palestinians react to stun grenades fired by Israeli police to clear the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem after clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Medics: 200 Palestinians hurt in mosque clashes with Israeli police

08/05/2021

Israeli border police officers detain a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes with Palestinian protesters in east Jerusalem (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Clashes continue between Palestinians and Israeli police at Al-Aqsa Mosque

08/05/2021

Worshippers wave Hamas and Palestinian flags (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Dozens hurt as Palestinians and Israeli police clash at Al-Aqsa Mosque

07/05/2021

Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid has been invited to form a government (Oded Balilty/AP)

Opposition leader invited to form government after Netanyahu misses deadline

05/05/2021

People light candles in memory of the 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a stampede at a religious festival (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

UK

Briton killed in Israel stampede a ‘wonderful’ husband, son and brother – family

03/05/2021

Israeli youths light candles in memory of the 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a stampede at a religious festival on Friday, during a vigil in Tel Aviv, Israel (Oded Balilty/AP)

UK

British man among 45 killed in Israel stampede, says Foreign Office

03/05/2021

Israeli security officials and rescuers carry a body of a victim who died during Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt Meron in northern Israel (AP Photo)

More than 40 people killed in stampede at religious festival in Israel

30/04/2021

Israeli border police block members of Lahava, a Jewish extremist group (AP)

Dozens arrested after night of chaos in Jerusalem

23/04/2021

This file image made from video shows what is said to be Israel’s top secret nuclear facility in the southern Israeli town of Dimona (Channel 10/AP/File)

Israel hits back after Syrian anti-aircraft missile lands near nuclear reactor

22/04/2021

An Israeli soldier holds a flag with black ribbon attached to it as she stands by an Israeli soldier’s grave ahead of the country’s memorial day for fallen soldiers and victims of attacks, at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Memorial Day begins at dusk on Tuesday and lasts until Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel says it strikes targets in Syria after missile attack

22/04/2021

A man identified as Reza Karimi, alleged saboteur of the incident that damaged a centrifuge hall at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility (IRIB/AP)

Iran names suspect in ‘sabotage’ attack on nuclear facility

17/04/2021

Palestinian worshipers pray during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Muslims mark first Ramadan Friday prayers in Jerusalem

16/04/2021