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Thomas Helm

Thomas Helm

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Jerusalem
Thomas Helm is Jerusalem Correspondent at The National. He was previously its staff opinion writer in Abu Dhabi

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People gathered in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square watch the release of Israeli hostages on a screen on Saturday. AFP
Brief joy in Tel Aviv after latest hostage release by Hamas

Demonstrators cheer for captives in the city’s Hostage Square, but still fear the ceasefire deal could collapse

MENAFebruary 15, 2025
Thomas Helm
Muhyedin Al Saadi, father of a Palestinian paramedic killed in an Israeli air strike in the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. Patricia Martinez for The National
Palestinian parents horrified by deadly start to 2025 for West Bank children

Israeli attacks claim young lives and leave families in shock and mourning

MENAFebruary 12, 2025
Thomas Helm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Washington last week. EPA
Gaza ceasefire on brink as Netanyahu amasses forces

US President Donald Trump says he doesn't think Hamas will meet a Saturday deadline to release all hostages

USFebruary 11, 2025
Thomas Helm
Dozens of families have fled to the countryside around Jenin since the Israeli raids began. Patricia Martinez / The National
Palestinians in Jenin fear Israel will bring abuses of war in Gaza to West Bank

Locals who fled city’s refugee camp are afraid they will return home to destruction and displacement

MENAFebruary 11, 2025
Thomas Helm
Booksellers Ahmad, left, and Mahmoud Muna appear in court after their arrest during a police raid of their Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. AP
Backlash after Israel arrests Jerusalem bookshop owners

Demonstrators gather outside East Jerusalem court a day after Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were charged with disturbing public order

MENAFebruary 10, 2025
Thomas Helm
Najib, left, and Samer Aweis at their rented home in the suburbs of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Photo: Patricia Martisa for The National
Palestinian sons await reunion as father appears on Israel detainee swap list

On the outskirts of Jenin, a young family look forward to the sort of release that crystallises the opposition of some Israelis to the exchanges of detainees and hostages

MENAFebruary 09, 2025
Thomas Helm
US President Donald Trump at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington. Mr Trump said he wants the US to take over Gaza. EPA
Trump’s Gaza takeover proposal alarms Palestinian officials

US President's idea praised in Israel while intensifying fears in Arab nations

MENAFebruary 05, 2025
Thomas Helm
Emergency workers move a victim of a shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank into an ambulance on Tuesday. Reuters
Two Israeli soldiers killed in shooting at West Bank checkpoint

Palestinian gunman died in exchange of fire, military says, after attack that also injured eight Israeli soldiers

MENAFebruary 04, 2025
Thomas Helm
Israeli army vehicles in Jenin refugee camp on February 3. EPA
Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' in West Bank

Escalation comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in US for meeting with Donald Trump on Gaza ceasefire

MENAFebruary 03, 2025
Thomas Helm
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump during a meeting in 2020. Reuters
Netanyahu in Washington as Gaza ceasefire deal enters critical phase

Israel's Prime Minister is the first world leader to visit the new American administration

MENAFebruary 02, 2025
Thomas Helm
A Palestinian former detainee is greeted by family and friends in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday. EPA
Fourth prisoner release sparks joy despite signs of their ordeal

Several detainees who arrived in Ramallah on Saturday appeared in poor physical condition

MENAFebruary 01, 2025
Thomas Helm
An Israeli rightwing activist defaces the sign in front of the shuttered gate of UNRWA's West Bank Field Office in Jerusalem. AFP
Some UNRWA services still running in Jerusalem despite ban

Israeli laws prohibiting activities of the UN agency endanger services in Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Gaza aid effort, critics say

MENAJanuary 30, 2025
Thomas Helm
Palestinians queueing to get UNRWA aid parcels, on January 21, 2025 in Khan Younis, Gaza. Anadolu
Palestinians brace for disruption of education and health care as UNRWA ban looms

Israel has ordered the UN agency to cease all its activities starting Thursday

MENAJanuary 29, 2025
Thomas Helm
Palestinians make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Reuters
Gazans begin their long trek home to the north

Israeli army permits residents to return to the once-densely populated area months after being evicted during the war

MENAJanuary 27, 2025
Nagham Mohanna
A wounded man shot while trying to reach the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila is taken to an ambulance at a Lebanese army checkpoint in Burj Al Muluk. AFP
Two killed and several injured in Israeli shooting in south Lebanon

More than 20 were also killed by Israeli fire on Sunday as they sought to return to home villages

MENAJanuary 27, 2025
Jamie Prentis
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