Maayan Idan News Today

99.6 per cent is occupied by Arab countries in the Middle East; Israel occupies just 0.4 per cent of the entire Middle East. That 0.4 per cent is also a big issue for them.

While many of them were engaged by Israeli forces, some managed to sneak back into Gaza with more than 200 civilian hostages.

As Islamophobia and antisemitic attacks grow, people wait anxiously for news of their loved ones

For Brighton resident Adam Ma’anit the horrors of the last week have – as they have for many Jewish and Palestinian families in the UK – reprised previous tragedies. Ma’anit’s 18-year-old cousin, Maayan Idan, was among the first civilians to be killed as Hamas’s attack unfolded last Saturday. Her father, Tsachi Idan, remains missing, presumably held hostage within the embattled Gaza enclave, 500m from the kibbutz from where he was taken. Two decades earlier, Ma’anit had grieved ano...

Experts fear a mass evacuation of more than a million Palestinians in Gaza from north to south ahead of an expected Israeli invasion could be 'tantamount to a death sentence'