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In cars, trucks, donkey carts and on foot, thousands of Palestinians began an exodus from the north of the besieged Gaza Strip to the south of the enclave after an Israeli evacuation order. Among them was Amal al-Shanty, walking with her family, including several children. “We don’t know where we will go. I couldn’t have

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The oil price rose to its highest level since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict at just under $90 a barrel, as concerns about a potential ground assault on Gaza added fresh tension

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor. His latest book is ‘Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations’ Confronted with enormity: murdered infants, abducted grandmothers, slaughtered villagers, lusty chants of “gas the Jews” at

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s largest police force has deployed 1,000 officers across London to protect communities after a “massive” surge in antisemitic incidents and rise in communal tensions fuelled by escalating bloodshed in Israel and the Gaza

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigel Farage has opened several accounts at Lloyds Banking Group after he became embroiled in a “debanking” row with NatWest that cost the chief executive of the state-backed lender her job. Coutts, the elite private

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scotland’s first minister has said Israel’s siege of Gaza has gone “too far”, describing its cutting off the supply of water and electricity to the enclave as collective punishment that “cannot be justified”. “There is

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected accusations that he received prior warning of a Hamas mobilisation for a cross-border attack from Gaza, amid mounting recriminations between Israel’s political and military leadership over who bore

Ibrahim Wadi and his 26-year-old son travelled to Qusra, a village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday for the funeral of four Palestinian men killed in a shooting by Israeli settlers. By the afternoon, they too were dead, gunned down by Israeli settlers who descended on the funeral, according to the Palestinian

Hossein Amirabdollahian (back left) and Hassan Nasrallah (back right) meet in Beirut Iran’s foreign minister met the leader of Hizbollah in Lebanon on Friday to discuss “the responsibilities everyone has and the positions that must be taken regarding these historical events and dangerous developments” in Gaza, a spokesperson for the Tehran-backed militant group said. Hossein Amirabdollahian’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military on Friday called for the evacuation of Palestinians from the northern Gaza strip to southern Gaza, in a move the UN said would affect 1.1mn people and could result in a “calamitous situation”.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Since taking office two years ago, Antony Blinken has tackled some of the most complicated challenges to face a modern US secretary of state, including cleaning up the diplomatic mess after the US’s precipitous Afghanistan

Until last weekend, Be’eri in southern Israel was known for its residents’ relative affluence thanks to their shared ownership of a printing company in the town. Now, it is the scene of an atrocity. The kibbutz, only 5km from the Gaza border, witnessed some of the most horrific violence carried out by Hamas militants during

Or Bokobza, the chief executive of residential software start-up Venn, has barely spoken to his colleagues for the last week. As a reserve member of an elite combat unit in the Israeli military, he has been in the field since almost immediately after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. St James’s Place is under pressure from regulators to overhaul its fee structure to ensure it complies with the UK’s new consumer duty, according to people familiar with the discussions. The UK’s largest wealth manager

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Steve Scalise has withdrawn from the race to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, in a surprise move that underscores the chronic dysfunction in the Republican party and raises fresh doubts about lawmakers’ ability

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Senior US officials have vowed to stop $6bn in Iranian funds held in a Qatari account from being transferred to Tehran without Washington’s consent, as they tried to defuse a bipartisan political backlash over the

Indicators: China is set to publish its September consumer and producer price indices as well as trade balance figures on Friday. Singapore is expected to release its third-quarter gross domestic product figures. Earnings: Ryohin Keikaku, owner of Japanese retailer Muji, will on Friday report its financial results for the 2023 fiscal year ending September 1.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alameda chief executive Caroline Ellison told her staff that Sam Bankman-Fried authorised a raid on FTX customer money to repay the trading firm’s loans, according to recordings of an employee meeting from the company’s final

Inside Gaza’s Dar al-Shifa hospital, the main medical facility in the besieged Palestinian territory, the exhausted doctors treating victims of Israel’s bombardment struggle with crippling power shortages, ageing equipment and dwindling supplies. Not only the wounded descend on the hospital. Its corridors throng with Gazan families seeking a safe haven from Israeli air strikes that

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of building the London-to-Birmingham stretch of the UK’s HS2 high-speed railway has jumped by a fifth in just four months, underlining the challenges the government still faces in delivering the troubled project. Last

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has opened an investigation into X, formerly Twitter, over the way illegal content and disinformation of terrorist and violent content is spreading on its platform in the wake of the attacks by Hamas