Jason Burke
@burke_jason
covering international security for The Guardian. UK now after 20+ years working in ME, SAsia, Europe, Africa. New book The Revolutionists coming in Oct. Dad.
Hamas is hurting, undoubtedly, but still has a plan: to survive ... (and to capture an Israeli soldier if possible) My report here: theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
"The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day," Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, told me. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Ceasefire hopes and fears in Gaza - and a 12 year old who just wants not to be "torn apart" report with brilliant colleague Malak A Tantesh and me theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Hopes and fears in Gaza - and a 12 year old who just want not to be "torn apart" a report with my brilliant colleague Malak A Tantesh theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
The IDF dropped a 500lb bomb into a cafe in Gaza on Monday. We saw & identified fragments. They had conducted "aerial surveillance" so knew it was crowded with civilians. They had other precise munitions available. Up to 40 died, more injured. My report: theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe our report on how a devastating Israeli strike transforms peaceful scene at al-Baqa into horror theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Twelve days in Gaza: what happened while the world looked away? One of the consequences of Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran was a drop-off in attention paid to another conflict. This is our timeline of what happened theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Post-apocalyptic’: medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza Militants, clans, Hamas and criminal gangs bring violence and anarchy as they vie for power amid Israeli strikes my report here: theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
Supporters see a big win - and years in power; critics see an unprincipled opportunist whose political career will soon be over ... who is right? my piece: theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
JNIM, the ‘ghost enemy’, have launched in the Sahel one of the most effective offensives for years by an Islamist militant organisation momentum ... no one watching obvs because we are all looking to Middle East but this is not at all good ... theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
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ICYMI
my profile of Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, now backed into a corner, a situation he has spent his life doing his best to avoid theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…