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Bethan McKernan

Bethan McKernan is Jerusalem correspondent for the Guardian. Twitter @mck_beth 

December 2024

  • Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.

    Middle East crisis live
    Officials claim Israeli military ‘burning’ Kamal Adwan hospital after forced evacuation of patients – as it happened

  • Palestinians walk past television broadcast vehicle after it was targeted in an Israeli air strike

    Five Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza as Israel also strikes Yemen

  • Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike near Sana’a airport in Yemen on 26 December.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: WHO chief at Yemen airport during Israeli airstrikes; Netanyahu says attack ongoing ‘until we complete the job’ – as it happened

  • Two masked, armed men sitting in the back of a pickup truck.

    17 reported killed in Syrian clashes after attempted arrest of former prison officer

  • ‘It was like I was reborn’: Sednaya prison’s former inmates adapt to a new Syria

  • On the ground
    Assad’s Syria horror has ended, what’s next? – video

  • ‘Resistance was not a choice’: how Syria’s unlikely rebel alliance took Aleppo

  • Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: mediators push on with Gaza ceasefire talks amid fresh strikes – as it happened

  • Inside Aleppo, the city Assad left to rot as a lesson in the price of rising up

  • Schools reopen in Damascus as celebrations over Bashar al-Assad fleeing Syria continue

  • 'The Syrian regime hit us with chemical weapons: only now can we speak out' – video

  • Middle East crisis live
    Israel to close embassy in Dublin over ‘anti-Israel policies’ after Ireland’s backing of genocide petition – as it happened

  • ‘Their bodies had turned to black’: Syrian chlorine victims can finally speak out

  • Middle East crisis live
    Baby reported among seven killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school; Jordan hosts Syria talks – as it happened

  • Damascus streets erupt in celebration as Syrians mark end of Assad dynasty

  • ‘We won’t stop until we find them all’: joy gives way to grief as Syria buries its dead

  • No pardons for prison torturers, says Syrian rebel leader

  • Middle East crisis live
    Preserving territorial integrity is key, say US and Russian diplomats at UN – as it happened

  • Benjamin Netanyahu says Golan Heights will remain part of Israel ‘for eternity’

  • Middle East crisis live
    Bashar al-Assad reportedly in Moscow – as it happened

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