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Children in their early teens have lived through four wars, with the fear, loss and trauma that brings

Her hair is matted with rubble dust. Bare feet poke out from pink tracksuit bottoms. Blood from a head wound streaks over her eye and down her face.

But Suzy Eshkuntana is alive, pulled out of the rubble of her family’s home seven hours after it was hit in an Israeli airstrike in the middle of the night. Her four siblings and her mother were killed.

Rescuers search for people in the rubble of a building at the site of an airstrike in Gaza City, and below – carry Suzy Eshkuntana from the same site. Photographs: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

The children of the al-Deyri family after their home was demolished by an airstrike in Gaza City. Photograph: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency

The father of 12-year-old Rahaf al-Dayer holds her covered body at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the upper floors of a commercial building and caused damage to the nearby health ministry and a clinic. Photograph: Anas Baba/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian family on a carriage pulled by a donkey in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, fleeing to safety last Friday. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

The funeral of the Israeli Arab Khalil Awaad and his daughter Nadine, 16, in the village of Dahmash near the Israeli city of Lod. A rocket fired from Gaza hit their house and killed both of them. Photograph: Heidi Levine/AP

Israelis take cover under a bridge in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images

A woman carries her child outside a building that received a direct hit by rockets from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on Monday. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

An Israeli paramedic checks the blood pressure of a young girl in a residential building after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel. Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP

Palestinian children sit in the back of a van loaded with salvaged belongings from their home at the al-Jawhara Tower in Gaza City, which was heavily damaged in Israeli airstrikes. Photograph: Anas Baba/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian civil defence team carries a wounded girl after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

Palestinian children who fled their homes due to Israeli air and artillery strikes look through a window fence at a UN-run school where they take refuge, in Gaza City. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

Ryad Eshkuntana checks his daughter Suzy as they received medical care at al-Shifa hospital on Wednesday. His wife and other children were killed in the Israeli airstrike. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes examines the series of combustible events that coincided to trigger the worst violence in Israel and Gaza since 2014

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This rigorous and nailbiting documentary examines the US president’s failure to facilitate an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s

In the last days of his presidency Bill Clinton took a call from the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. “You are a great man,” Arafat told him. Clinton replied angrily: “I’m not a great man. I’m a failure. And you made me a failure.” Dror Moreh’s gripping, intellectually vigorous documentary is the story of that failure: the collapse of the peace deal brokered by the US between the Palestinians and Israelis. It’s a blow-by-blow account in measured – but nailbiting – detail, told by the American diplomats in charge of the high-stakes negotiations. You could imagine John le Carré basing a character on one of these polite, ferociously bright people.

When Clinton took office in January 1993, the Middle East was not high on his agenda, but since secret talks were already under way he hopped aboard; in September that year the Oslo peace accords were signed at the White House. Negotiators ruefully remember wrangling with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli PM, to persuade him to shake hands with Arafat, his sworn enemy. Rabin insisted that Arafat not have his gun; Arafat asked if he could wear a holster without the gun.

As a Palestinian from within Israel I have long been a second-class citizen, denied basic rights

On Tuesday, in my hometown of Tira, which is inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders, the shops were closed and the streets were empty. A general strike had been declared in protest over Israel’s policies, whether the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, the storming of al-Aqsa mosque, or the onslaught on Gaza.

As the Palestinian death toll continues to rise, commentators lament the shattering of coexistence inside Israel between Palestinian and Jewish citizens. Yet in my experience as a Palestinian citizen in Israel, no such coexistence existed in the first place. Coexistence implies a background of equality, freedom and mutual respect. In the context of Israel’s rule over us, however, coexistence is a fiction that conceals a reality of separate and unequal lives.

Nimer Sultany is reader in public law at Soas University of London

Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the nonviolent BDS movement needs your support, writes BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti

Toni Morrison wrote in her novel Beloved, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” Palestinians have learned the hard way that unless we clearly define ourselves, our oppression, and our aspirations, the hegemonic oppressor will do it, erasing our history and subjugating our future.

Sometimes our definitions emerge when unexpected. Three days ago, following a nearby Israeli airstrike targeting a residential neighborhood in Gaza city that shook their building, my friend’s young daughter ran terrified to her mother’s arms shivering. She asked, “I want to be courageous, mama, but I don’t know how when death is so near?” Her question itself, during a televised massacre, defines courage. Palestinians are shattering our fear every day and hoping, and working to ensure, that this courage inspires millions to speak out and act in an effective way to end complicity in Israel’s oppression.

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In the face of flagrant oppression anywhere, apathy and inaction are immoral, when one has the ability to act without suffering significantly

Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, and co-recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award in 2017

International calls for action grow as Netanyahu reportedly says fighting could end ‘within days’

Egypt has urged a brokered end to the fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza, and France has called for a UN security council resolution on the violence, as international pressure for a ceasefire intensifies.

The US has so far stopped short of demanding an end to the clashes, confining its public efforts to urging that attacks are scaled back. Washington has repeatedly blocked efforts before the UN security council to draft joint statements calling for the fighting to end. The latest US rejection came at a security council meeting late on Tuesday that again ended without a statement, as airstrikes and rocket fire continued into the night.

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A familiar spiral of violence in the Middle East. Plus, the India Covid variant puts Britain on alert.

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Violence erupted again last week between Israelis and Palestinians, sparked by a (since delayed) court ruling over Jewish land rights in the east of Jerusalem. While the roots of this seemingly interminable cycle of conflict go back to Israel’s foundation in 1948, the current tensions also look suspiciously expedient for ruling politicians in Israel, Gaza and Iran, while the new Biden administration in Washington seems to have been caught completely off-guard. Our team of Middle East reporters recount how the region spiralled into violence, while on our Opinion pages Jonathan Freedland says the futile normality of attrition between Israelis and Palestinians must be challenged.

England’s great leap forward from lockdown had the uneasy feel of two steps back, as an outbreak of the India variant B.1.617.2 threatened to rain on long-anticipated hopes of a Covid-free northern summer. We assess the variant’s likely impact and its prospects for causing further havoc elsewhere. We also hear from Taiwan, where a new outbreak has evaded the country’s “gold standard” defences, and Australia, where borders look set to remain closed for another year.

Palestinian man killed and more than 70 wounded as hundreds hurl stones at Israeli checkpoint

Serious clashes erupted in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as Palestinians took part in a day of protests and strikes over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

A Palestinian man was killed and more than 70 wounded, including 16 by live fire, in clashes with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. Two Israeli soldiers were injured.

Serious clashes erupted in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as Palestinians took part in a day of protests and strikes over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. In Jerusalem, police deployed water cannon in the neighbourhood Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families are facing eviction from homes they have lived in since the 1950s.

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President’s visit to highlight push for electric cars came as protests erupted over escalating Israeli and Palestinian clashes

As Joe Biden toured a Ford factory to highlight his push for more electric vehicles on Tuesday, protests erupted in parts of Michigan over the escalating clashes between Israelis and Palestinians.

Biden toured Ford Motor Co Rouge electric vehicle center to tout part of his American Jobs Plan, which incentivizes Americans to use electric vehicles and proposes building a national network of charging stations.