Saudi Arabia set to host mini-summit to discuss Trump’s proposal to deport Gazans
Aim is to formulate plan before full meeting of 22-member Arab League
While Israel faces pressure to bring hostages home, Hamas has to get aid into Gaza to maintain credibility
Gazans need mobile homes as rain has swamped makeshift shelters and temperatures fall to 5 degrees at night
Jordan has long faced existential peril from pressures to become the ‘Palestinian state’
Jordan absorbed most of the 750,000 Palestinians who fled the Israeli-Arab war in 1948. A fresh influx could destabilise the country
Trump calls for immediate nuclear talks with Tehran
US president dismisses reports that United States and Israel planned to ‘blow Iran to smithereens’ as ‘greatly exaggerated’
Arab leaders have many cards to play in opposing Donald Trump’s Gaza plan
Analysis: China and Iran among the potential beneficiaries of US president’s proposal
‘If Unrwa goes down, the whole aid structure goes down’
Israel’s ban on the UN agency serving refugees is due to be implemented on Thursday
Gaza Strip: Infrastructural ruin, destroyed facilities and lack of shelter await returnees despite joy at ceasefire
Mass movement of Palestinians back into Gaza encountering lack of basic supplies, sewage treatment systems, freshwater and public waste management. It is claimed the war has reversed development by 60 years
From Gaza to Iran, Trump makes moves to reshape the Middle East
Palestinians have cause for increased concern
‘There’s this double feeling’: Freed Palestinian prisoner tells of joy and pain after release
Khalida Jarrar most prominent of 90 Palestinians released on Sunday as part of first phase of ceasefire agreement
UN estimates that 1.9m people displaced from Gaza’s 2.3m population
Organisation indicates that women and children account for 70% of fatalities from death toll of almost 47,000
Hamas renews its ranks in face of Israeli military onslaught
Binyamin Netanyahu’s aim of returning 200,000 Israelis to southern and northern communities abandoned during war is unlikely until Gaza has been pacified by political means
New prime minister pledges ‘construction of the new Lebanon ... rooted in justice, security, progress and opportunities’
Nawaf Salam seen as a man of change who could secure reforms required for the country to access $20bn in international funds to rebuild its shattered economy and war-ravaged regions
Saudi Arabia calls for end to sanctions on Syria after Riyadh meetings
Regional and western ministers along with senior diplomats pursue ways to advance country’s recovery
Election of Joseph Aoun ends Lebanon’s two years without a president
UN official calls on new president to appoint a prime minister, after two years of caretaker cabinet
Diplomats tread the road to Damascus as Syria’s new regime seeks international support
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has held talks with European and US officials, as well regional government ministers