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    In 2020 he was named Tech Journalist of the Year by the British Press Awards and won a Gerald Loeb award for a series of stories on Israel’s NSO Group and its surveillance software Pegasus. Mehul was previously a foreign correspondent, stationed in Istanbul and later Jerusalem.

    Before joining the Financial Times in 2015, he was a reporter-at-large at Bloomberg News. where he won Journalist of the Year from the Society of Publishers in Asia for an investigation into starvation in India. The series also won awards for human rights and explanatory reporting and was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb.

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    • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      US hopeful of Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal in ‘coming days’

      National security adviser Jake Sullivan says negotiators in Paris reached ‘understanding’ on basics of agreement

      Smoke from an Israeli bombardment of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday
    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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      Israel unveils plan for complete postwar control of Gaza

      Netanyahu document on future of besieged Palestinian enclave at odds with US aims

    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Looting all but halts Gaza aid deliveries as law and order nears collapse

      Egypt seeks to broker deal with Israeli military to allow Palestinian police to guard convoys

      A man walks past a truck carrying humanitarian aid from the UK that entered Gaza by truck
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
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      UN court begins hearings on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories

      ICJ case adds to legal scrutiny of country’s conduct after South Africa’s claim of genocide

    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
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    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli cabinet debates al-Aqsa mosque restrictions during Ramadan

      Discussion to limit Muslim access to the site inflames tensions already heightened by the war in Gaza

      Israeli security forces stand guard as Muslim worshippers wait at a checkpoint to enter the al Aqsa mosque compound
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
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      Lebanese and Israelis killed in cross-border fire

      Suspected Hizbollah rocket barrage leads to retaliatory air strikes by Israel

    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli military starts evacuation of Gaza’s last big hospital

      Thousands of people have taken refuge at Nasser medical facility, alongside hundreds of patients and staff

      Palestinians wounded during an Israeli bombardment are brought to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
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      Gaza’s last refuge becomes Israel’s next target

      Satellite images show how vast numbers of displaced people have transformed the border city of Rafah — that Israel now plans to attack

      Montage of an injured man with a bandaged head stands next a child in Gaza along with a before and after picture of Rafah, following the influx of displaced people
    • Monday, 5 February, 2024
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      US to ban visas for spyware abusers and manufacturers who sell to them

      Action is the latest move by the Biden administration to clamp down on software used to target dissidents

      US Department of State seal on a window
    • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
      InterviewUNRWA
      Head of UN agency for Palestinians defies Israeli calls to quit

      UNRWA chief seeks emergency funding from Gulf after crisis sparked by claims staff took part in Hamas attack

      Philippe Lazzarini
    • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
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      Palestinians pay the price for UN allegations

      Agency helping refugees could halt its operations in weeks after funding was withdrawn over claims staff took part in Hamas attack

    • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      A UN agency in Gaza is in crisis. Palestinians may pay the price

      Body helping refugees could shutter operations in weeks after funding withdrawn over claims staff took part in Hamas attack

      A UN storage facility in the central Gaza Strip
    • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
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      Israeli commandos kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank hospital

      CCTV footage from medical centre shows people dressed as doctors and civilians moving through facility carrying weapons

      CCTV footage showing disguised Israeli soldiers storming a West Bank hospital
    • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      UN chief urges countries not to pull funding over Israel attack allegations

      Number of governments halt UNRWA support after agency said ‘several’ staff may have participated in October 7 assault

      Palestinians gather their belongings after an Israeli airstrike on a school in Al-Maghazi refugee camp
    • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
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      ICJ’s Israel judgment seeks to restore rule of law to a brutal conflict

      ICJ gives Israel a chance to document its adherence to international law while fighting genocide charge

      Protesters with Palestinian flags outside the International Court of Justice in the Hague
    • Friday, 26 January, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      UN agency dismisses ‘several’ staff over alleged role in October 7 attack

      US halts funding for UNRWA on same day as high-profile ICJ ruling in genocide case against Israel

      People walk among destroyed houses and buildings in southern Gaza
    • Friday, 26 January, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Top UN court orders Israel to comply with international law on genocide

      ICJ findings come as UN Palestinian relief agency dismisses several employees over alleged involvement in Hamas attack

      Protesters hold a Palestinian flag as they gather outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands
    • Sunday, 31 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel’s war in Gaza will go on for months, warns Netanyahu

      Israeli prime minister welcomes US backing as military deepens invasion of besieged enclave

    • Friday, 22 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Gaza death toll tops 20,000 as UN drops call to end fighting

      Security Council to vote on a pared-down resolution in a bid to gain US support for more humanitarian aid

      A wounded Palestinian woman surrounded by three children
    • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Visual analysis: the wastelands in Gaza’s two biggest cities

      An aerial view of damage in Gaza City and Khan Younis as Israel’s military advances

      Smoke billows from Israeli bombardment over Khan Yunis from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 16, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas
    • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel open to ‘temporary truce’ to free remaining hostages

      Hamas demands high price for captives in discussions involving Qatar, Israel and US

      A relative of one of the hostages holds a sign calling for their release outside the Israeli defence ministry in Tel Aviv
    • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli soldiers kill hostages waving white flag after mistaking them for Hamas fighters

      Captives’ families plan protest march to pressure government as talks with Qatar resume in Europe

      People hold candles at a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 15 2023
    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
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      ‘Unusual convoy’: the mission to retrieve 900,000 banknotes from north Gaza

      A Bank of Palestine operation managed to move notes worth $50mn to ease cash shortage in the south

      A montage of Israeli shekels and Gaza rubble
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel pounds southern Gaza after US warning on civilian deaths

      Evacuation orders appear to signal preparations for ground offensive in territory’s second city Khan Younis

      Smoke rising in Khan Younis
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