1843 magazine
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Business
Anyone can break a Guinness World Record. I did
Consultants are designing bespoke awards to help companies build their brands
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West Bank
Thousands of Gazans are stranded in Israel and the West Bank
Many say they were rounded up by the police, beaten and dumped at checkpoints
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Forensics
The biblical archaeologist finding the victims Hamas burned
Bodies have been reduced to ash. Entire families are wiped out. Dismembered limbs are jumbled together
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Hostages
Israel’s top hostage negotiator on dealing with Hamas
In 2011 David Meidan managed to get one person out of Gaza. Now he’s trying to free 240
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Policing
Londoners can no longer rely on the police to handle mental-health emergencies
As the Met takes a step back, what will happen to people in distress?
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Gaza
Ali Jadallah has lost four relatives in Gaza. He’s still taking pictures
Numb with grief, a photographer works to bear witness
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Israel
The “war schizophrenia” of Israel’s peaceniks
Many lost friends in Hamas’s attacks. They don’t want to lose more in Gaza
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Gaza
Life in Gaza is a series of calculations. How much water do you really need?
Palestinians worry that the world will become inured to their suffering
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Israel
Their relatives are missing after Hamas’s attack. Now they’re tracking them down themselves
Frustrated by the government’s response, grassroots organisations are springing up
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Gaza
Hamas’s deadly “phantom”: the man behind the attacks
Muhammad Deif transformed the militant group from a cluster of terrorist cells into a force capable of invading Israel
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Israel
How one kibbutz defended itself from Hamas
Hundreds were saved. But a group of Gazan farmers died in the battle
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Argentina
Sex guru, cosplayer, economist: will Javier Milei be Argentina’s next president?
He has unorthodox ideas for reviving the economy. But his pugnacity and embrace of the far-right may do further damage to the country