Bethan Mckernan

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Alex Atack |Elizabeth Cassin

On Monday, Israeli officials announced they were planning a new military offensive in Gaza, with aims of “conquering” the land and establishing a “sustained presence” there. “The offensive is called Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” Bethan McKernan, the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, tells Lucy Hough. “It’s designed to make sure that there is an indefinite Israeli presence in the strip. That implies that there is no day after the war now.

1 week ago | eldiario.es | Bethan Mckernan |Malak A Tantesh

Como tantos otros palestinos en la Franja de Gaza, Jalil al Hakimi se sintió aliviado por primera vez en más de un año cuando Israel y Hamás alcanzaron el pasado enero un acuerdo de alto el fuego después de muchas demoras. Lloró y abrazó con fuerza a sus cinco hijos. “Dormí profundamente, libre del ruido de los bombardeos, la destrucción y la muerte”, recuerda.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Malak A Tantesh

Like so many others across the Gaza Strip, Khalil al-Hakimi felt a weight lift from his shoulders for the first time in over a year when Israel and Hamas agreed a long-delayed ceasefire in January. He cried and hugged his five children tightly. “I slept deeply, free from the sound of bombing, destruction and death,” he said. The 44-year-old engineer was out on Gaza City’s dark streets looking for food when he was shot by a sniper one night last December.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan

New developments in the killing of 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip last month have come to light, with evidence reportedly contradicting the Israel Defense Forces’ claim that soldiers did not fire indiscriminately at the medical workers.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan

At least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators. Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.