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Hamas fighters secure an area before handing over an Israeli-American hostage to a Red Cross team in Gaza City on February 1, 2025, as part of the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

With few cards left, Hamas faces tough choices ahead

Having lost most of its weaponry, fighters, and supply lines, the group can no longer respond as it once did. It no longer cites the right to resist, nor does it seek to impose a deterrent.

Majed Kayali 07 November 2025
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP

Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

Presented as post-war stabilisation, an experiment in controlled fragmentation appears to be underway, with diplomacy, security, and commerce converging to cement a new geopolitical order

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 October 2025
Al Majalla

Egypt's post-October 7 balancing act

While Cairo felt that the Hamas attacks on Israel were a response to occupation, it does not see eye-to-eye with the group. It also has practical worries, not least of which are economic.

Amr Emam 13 October 2025
Palestinian woman Najla Abu Aya feeds her five-month-old daughter, Rama, who is malnourished, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025. Ramadan Abed / Reuters

A starved Gaza is not collateral damage. It is a Netanyahu policy

Israel's war aims go beyond the defeat of Hamas to the collective punishment of two million Palestinians. It is losing friends fast, while Gazans lose far more than that.

Ahmed Maher 01 August 2025
An Israeli battle tank deployed at a position along the border with the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on July 29, 2025. Jack Guez / AFP

The latest ‘corridor’ helps the Israeli military fragment Gaza

A new axis dividing Khan Younis into eastern and western sections follows others splitting Khan Younis from Rafah, and north Gaza from central Gaza. The strategy is simple: divide and conquer.

Salem Al Rayyes 30 July 2025
Al Majalla - London

Gaza's man-made famine: a visual breakdown

In Gaza, where nearly 60,000 people have been killed since October 2023 due to Israeli military operations, half a million individuals now stand on the edge of famine. According to estimates by the…

Al Majalla - London 29 July 2025
Destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip on July 17, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP

A ‘concentration camp’ in Gaza will put Egypt in a tough spot

For Benjamin Netanyahu, it would be a 'humanitarian zone'. For most countries, it would be a war crime. For Egypt, it could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Amr Emam 21 July 2025

Architects at Venice Biennale challenge Israel’s culture of erasure

A new team called the Palestine Regeneration Team unveils an installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale that prompts a radical rethink of what 'home' now means for Gazans.

Iain Akerman 12 July 2025
The 'Trump Deal' is a 13-point ceasefire plan outlining agreed steps in areas such as aid, prisoners, surveillance, and troops.

Revealed: the full text of Trump’s deal between Israel and Hamas

Al Majalla publishes the US president's plan for a phased hostage/prisoner release over 60 days during a temporary end to the bombing that gives both sides time to negotiate a permanent agreement.

Al Majalla - London 07 July 2025
People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group that has circumvented the longstanding UN-led system in Gaza on June 8, 2025. Eyad BABA / AFP

How Israel is weaponising aid and armed gangs in Gaza

Israel's forced starvation campaign and the inexplicable routing of aid lorries through crowded areas compound an already dire humanitarian and security crisis. Critics say it's intentional.

Salem Al Rayyes 10 June 2025
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on 15 August 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska, where Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin for peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. ANDREW HARNIK / AFP
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Why Ratcliffe's secret visit to Moscow is concerning

27 August 2026

The American CIA director's visit looks to be a desperate attempt by the Trump administration to avert a doomsday scenario in which NATO is pulled into a larger war with Russia

Con Coughlin
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Beijing, China, on 2 September 2025. Reuters
Business & Economy

Will US sanctions on Iran bite? It may depend on China

26 August 2026

Beijing says it will not abide by the new 'Economic D-Day' measures and warns the US of retaliation if they hurt their oil trade with Tehran

Rana Freifer
Nigel Buchanan
Politics

Gadi Eisenkot: Israel’s next leader?

27 August 2026

Al Majalla looks at the former army general's career, political positions, possible paths to victory, and what a change in leadership could mean for Israel and the region after three years of war

Al Majalla - London
Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

When myth replaces medicine

25 August 2026

As social media transforms how people seek medical advice, figures such as Barbara O'Neill offer something conventional medicine rarely can: absolute certainty

Mohammed Mansour
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posing after signing the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 7 August, 2026. PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP
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Networked Middle East security

22 August 2026

The Iran war exposed the risks of being too closely tied to US military posture, which is why some Gulf states are repositioning themselves not merely as consumers of security but as architects of it

Bilal Saab

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