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A young Palestinian boy sits amid the debris of a bombed building in Gaza City in March (Picture: Omar Al-Qattaa)

Why Israel must let food and medicine into Gaza for its own sake Ian Johnston

The Whitelee Wind Farm on Eaglesham Moor in East Renfrewshire. The Scottish Governments wants to speed up the process for approving electricity infrastructure projects (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' letters: Ministers riding roughshod over rights of communities

Humza Yousaf was speaking at an Edinburgh Fringe event

'Hell on Earth': Yousaf opens up on Gaza family member left a 'shell'

Protestors block an immigration enforcement van, stopping it from leaving Glasgow's Kenmure Street in Nicola Sturgeon's constituency in May 2021. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Readers' Letters: Immigrants should be welcomed into our rapidly aging society

Scotland's ever-growing population of wind farms mainly serves England, says reader (Picture Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: Highlanders aren't being listened to over wind farms

A Palestinian woman hangs laundry in a heavily damaged building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip (Picture: Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Where will Palestinians go if they are kicked out of Gaza?

US President Donald Trump has been accused of calling for ethnic cleansing

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Destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2025

Gaza ceasefire deal does not stop us being a long way from justice Alexander Brown

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago. Picture: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

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An injured woman is carried away after an Israeli strike in Gaza City's Sabra neighbourhood earlier this month (Picture: Omar al-Qattaa)

UK can't just look on as Israel continues 'most documented genocide' Talat Yaqoob

Children under leaders on both sides of the Middle East conflict are suffering in troubles that are certainly Britain's business, says reader (Picture: Getty Images)

'Like losing my soul': Family of those killed in Gaza speak of justice

Peopls visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel

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Palestinian civilians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City in October last year (Picture: Mahmud Hams)

World must help all sides in Middle East conflict find Oasis of Peace Scotsman comment

John Mason MSP. Image: Press Association.

John Mason refuses to apologise for 'deeply offensive' Gaza comments

John Mason

SNP whip removed from MSP following ‘utterly abhorrent’ Gaza comments

An elderly Palestinian woman lifts a national flag during a rally marking Nakba day in the Ramallah city centre in the occupied West Bank last year.

How this year's Nakba Day will inevitably be more emotive than ever before

An Israeli Defense Forces tank drives away from the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel. Picture: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov

Starmer warns Israel Rafah offensive 'must not go ahead'

People ride a donkey-drawn cart moving past a destroyed building in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

UK urged to restore funding to UN Gaza aid agency after independent report

West must help Israelis and Palestinians escape the cycle of violence Scotsman comment

Joe Biden can stop the war in Gaza by cutting US aid to Israel Kenny MacAskill

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron during Question to the Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, London.

Cameron: UK goverment could bring children injured in Gaza to UK for care

Martyn Day MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk

MP PUSHS TO STOP ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL

Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the UK could recognise the state of Palestine in future.

David Cameron: UK to consider recognition of Palestine as state

People mourn in Khan Yunis as they wait on Christmas Day to collect the bodies of friends and relatives killed in an airstrike in Gaza late on Sunday night. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Gaza: At least 68 dead in Christmas Eve strike with further attacks reported

Dunia Abu Mohsen, 12, lost her leg in a bomb blast that killed her family. She was killed when the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, was shelled (Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

Friends of Israel must tell it to stop all-out war. Too many innocents are dying

Palestinians in the hospital in Khan Younis mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Picture: Fatima Shbair/AP

Israel intensifies offensive after end of week-long truce

US president Joe Biden sid in a tweet that violence 'would give Hamas what they seek'. Picture: Getty Images

Is Joe Biden warning Israel not to re-start its bombing campaign on Gaza?

Hostage release proves calls for immediate ceasefire were wrong Brian Monteith

St Andrews University chancellor, former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Campbell, has now upheld an appeal by Stella Maris (inset)

St Andrews University rector under fire over Israel 'genocide' claim

First Minister Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf calls on UK to officially recognise the state of Palestine

Shadow net zero secretary Ed Miliband, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar take a tour of St Fergus Gas Terminal in Peterhead. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Starmer says Gaza ceasefire position about showing credentials to be next PM

People search buildings destroyed in Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip (Picture: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Israel’s widespread bombing of Gaza in bid to wipe out Hamas i...

A Remembrance poppy wreath

Remembrance Day far is too close - Angus Robertson

An injured woman carries a baby in the aftermath of Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli warplanes carry out air strikes near Gaza's largest hospital

It's in Israel's own interests to consider alternatives to a ground invasion Paul Wilson

People on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing watch as a convoy of lorries carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid crosses to the Gaza Strip yesterday

Scotsman Letters: Israel is flouting humanitarian laws in Gaza

People gather at the site of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City after a deadly explosion (Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

As Gaza hospital rocket blast showed, we must beware social media disinformation

This picture taken from Israel's southern city of Sderot shows smoke billowing over the northern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment. Picture: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

UK will investigate destruction of Gaza City hospital amid fears hundreds killed

Following Hamas's murderous attacks, Israel has responded with missile strikes like this one on Gaza City (Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)

In its war against Hamas, Israel must work hard to avoid civilian casualties

Israel must triumph for people of Palestine to have any hope of peace Brian Monteith

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / TOPSHOT - A Palestinian woman covers sleeping children with a blanket as they take refuge in a United nations school, in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern of Gaza Strip on October 14, 2023, as fighting between Israel and the Hamas movement continues for the eighth consecutive day in the Gaza Strip enclave. Palestinians sought refuge on October 14, 2023, after Israel warned them to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip before an expected ground offensive against Hamas, one week after the deadliest attack in Israel's history. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Palestinians struggling to flee south after Israel’s evacuation order

Palestinian women and children flee yesterday in the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip sparked by Hamas attacks on Israel last weekend (Picture: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Hate and fear breed more hate and fear in Middle East
I thought that I was pretty hardened to Man’s basest instincts and behaviour. I was one of the generation taken to watch Judgment at Nuremberg as a child, as ma...

Elizabeth El-Nakla shared the video as the evacuation of Gaza civilians was ordered

Humza Yousaf shares tearful video of mother-in-law trapped in Gaza

The aftermath of a rocket attack on Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday (Picture: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Ultimate goal of peace in the Middle East still depends on a two-state solution

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly's approach to this week's tragic events in Israel and Palestine is wrong, says reader (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: UK should be brokering peace between Israel and Palestine

This aerial photo show heavily damaged buildings following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City (Photo by BELAL AL SABBAGH / AFP)

1,500 Hamas militants found dead in Israel as airstrikes bombard Gaza

Hamas's attack on Israel was a war crime that cannot be explained away Scotsman comment

Bernard Cohen, left, with his brother Colin Cowan. Tributes have poured in to a Glasgow man believed to have been killed in Israel by Hamas militants.

Scottish man confirmed dead in Hamas attack on Israel

Pope Francis waves from the popemobile car as he makes a tour of St. Peter's square following the Easter Sunday mass. Picture: Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images

Pray for Ukrainian and Russian people and refugees, urges Pope

Israelis celebrate the swearing in of the new government in Tel Aviv on Sunday

Don’t expect a Middle East peace breakthrough - Ben Lynfield

Palestinians assess the damage in a building caused by Israeli air strikes, in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2021. - Israel pounded Gaza and deployed extra troops to the border as Palestinians fired barrages of rockets back, with the death toll in the enclave on the fourth day of conflict climbing to over 100. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli artillery pounds Gaza ahead of possible ground incursion

A Palestinian man runs away from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces in front of the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem (Picture: Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Tear-gassing of civilians by Israel's forces was shocking – Angus Robertson

Nuns, mask-clad due to the Covid-19 pandemic, enter the Church of the Nativity on Christmas Day

No peace on earth in little town of Bethlehem - Readers' Letters

Neale Hanvey MP was suspended from the SNP.

SNP to readmit MP Neale Hanvey after investigation into anti-Semitism

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announce the US Middle East peace plan in the White House (Picture: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump is no true friend of Israel – Henry McLeish

Mr Netanyahu said his proposal to annex the strategic part of the occupied West Bank was discussed during a late-night meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

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