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Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

UK to seek ‘sustained humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza after fighting resumes

Israel restarted combat operations in the Gaza Strip minutes after a temporary truce expired on Friday after Hamas fired rockets into Israel, breaking the ceasefire.

A menorah lights up Trafalgar Square (Credit Michael Lee Photography)

Wavering Havering: London council U-turn means Chanukah celebration CAN now go ahead

By Lee Harpin

A body bag in the grounds of the Nova music festival after the 7 October massacre. Picture: Ilia Yefimovich/Getty via JTA

‘We were like sitting ducks’: Nova music festival survivor recalls Hamas horror

By JN Reporter

IDF says it has evidence that Hamas took hostages to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. Courtesy: IDF

OPINION: al-Shifa hospital, hostages, Hamas and a question of media impartiality

By Gemma Ricketts

Will a Labour government led by Keir Starmer be committed to the 2SS and recognise Palestine alongside Israel? (Blake Ezra Photography)

December 1, 2023, 12:55 pm

Starmer: Israel needs to be assured Hamas can never repeat 7 October

Labour leader also calls for renewed efforts by the UK and international partners to 'see the threat of Hamas removed'

By Lee Harpin

December 1, 2023, 12:38 pm

Wavering Havering: London council U-turn means Chanukah celebration CAN now go ahead

EXCLUSIVE: Havering Council leaders have reversed their deeply controversial decision to cancel town hall Chanukah celebration.

By Lee Harpin

December 1, 2023, 9:46 am

UK to seek ‘sustained humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza after fighting resumes

Israel restarted combat operations in the Gaza Strip minutes after a temporary truce expired on Friday after Hamas fired rockets into Israel, breaking the ceasefire.

By Jewish News Reporter

In July 2022, an IRGC-affiliated music-video production titled “Salute Commander” was recorded on UK soil, including on the premises of the School of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Queens Park, North London (YouTube)

November 30, 2023, 4:18 pm

Iranian school in London that sparked antisemitism fears served with closure notice

EXCLUSIVE: Department for Education confirms a 'deregistration notice' sent to School of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Brent.

By Lee Harpin

The damage inflicted on Israeli kibbutzim near the Gaza border

November 30, 2023, 11:39 am

OPINION: I feared my UJIA trip to Israel would be ‘terrorism tourism’. It wasn’t

By Marc Lester, who heads an IT company and is a graduate of the Gamechangers Jewish Leadership programme

Protesters chanting ‘bring them home’ and singing of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.

November 30, 2023, 10:11 am

OPINION: Uniting against hate is the only definitive action to safeguard our future

By Scott Saunders, founder and chair of UK March of the Living

One of the many chanukiot that dot the city in December

November 29, 2023, 4:54 pm

Oy humbug! London council CANCELS CHANUKAH over community tension concerns

Decision by Havering to scrap menorah event follows warning by MP Andrew Rosindell that doing so would be 'grave insult to Jewish communities in Romford'

By Lee Harpin

November 29, 2023, 2:10 pm

Dying mother’s videotaped message: I want to see my daughter brought back from Gaza

In a recording, Liora Argamani appeals to US President Biden and Red Cross to bring back her daughter Noa who is held hostage by Hamas in Gaza

By JN Reporter

November 29, 2023, 12:31 pm

UK doctor urged Gazans to ‘fight and die in dignity’ after 7 October terror attack

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah claims Israel's 'end goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza' and accuses the IDF of using banned chemical warfare agent white phosphorus

By Michelle Rosenberg

A vigil held at Moorfields in the City of London

November 29, 2023, 11:17 am

Board of Deputies planning weekly hostage vigils outside UK Parliament

The umbrella group is asking for British Jews to volunteer to attend the vigils until the safe return of all hostages held in Gaza

By Jewish News Reporter

Ilay David, 26, at the DoubleTree by Hilton London hotel, holding a poster of his brother Evyatar David, 22, who was taken hostage by Hamas.

November 29, 2023, 10:48 am

Israeli hostage’s brother ‘was very afraid to come to the UK’

Tuval Haim’s younger brother Yotam, 28, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on October 7.

By Jewish News Reporter

November 29, 2023, 9:20 am

Freed Hamas hostage Emily Hand refuses to speak above whisper after ordeal

Tom Hand, 63, was reunited with his daughter Emily after 50 days in captivity in Gaza.

By Jewish News Reporter

Noam Sagi with a rally participant holding a poster of his mother, Ada, during the seven weeks of fighting for her release. Photograph: Beatrice Sayers

November 29, 2023, 7:08 am

Son of 75-year-old British hostage released from Gaza: ‘I’m over the moon’

Ada Saga, a peace activist who speaks fluent Arabic, was part of a community which fought for good relationships with their Arab neighbours.

By JN Reporter

November 28, 2023, 6:53 pm

Ten further Israelis freed as fragile truce holds

Nine women and one 17-year-old girl have been transferred to the Red Cross, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed.

By Jewish News Reporter

Steve Brisley speaking at LFI annual reception

November 28, 2023, 5:33 pm

Sunak accused of ignoring letter from British family of Hamas atrocity victims

Steve Brisley revealed his devastated parents, whose family were murdered by Hamas terrorists, wrote to the PM over a month ago. 'That letter remains unanswered,' he told an LFI lunch

By Lee Harpin

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