Israel: From the Holocaust to Gaza

In Gaza, desperate relatives are searching for their family members: 11,000 people are thought to be missing.

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

After two years of onslaught by the IDF, the population of Gaza is now starving as a deliberate tactic of war by Israel.

With Netanyahu’s government wanting to annex the West Bank entirely, how credible is the two-state solution?

An overview of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

Every morning, Palestinian journalist Islam al-Zaanoun puts on her bullet-proof vest and continues to report the news under Israeli bombardment.

18 months after 7 October, Israeli society is still stuck in its hostage nightmare.

Orphaned, missing limbs, deprived of school or forced to work: this is the plight of children in Gaza.

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

Hamas and Israel have still not reached agreement on a new hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

There are thought to be 50,000 pregnant women currently in Gaza where just staying alive is a struggle.

Holocaust survivor Nelly Prezma is nearly 100 and lives with her family on a Kibbutz close to the Gaza strip.

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Mouna lives in Gaza but is stranded in Jordan.

The war in Gaza threatens the cohesion of Israeli society.

As Gazan’s rebuild their homes after the Hamas-Israeli conflict, they also try and rebuild their mental health.

Palestinians in the camps in Lebanon are watching the bitter war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with concern but they are divided between Hamas and Fatah supporters.

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out:

A Russian soldier contacts the sister of a missing Ukrainian soldier. He says he killed him. Data Sources investigates. .

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

An extensive interview with writer Deborah Feldman, famous for her autobiography Unorthodox, adapted into a highly successful Netflix series.

Why does a Russian region in the far east have Yiddish as an official language? 

Paris city hall is pursuing a green traffic policy: Less cars, more bicycles. But not everybody is pleased.

A new generation of men are doing their share of the chores and looking after the children.

Life on the frontline with a Ukrainian drone division feels like a strange and deadly video game.

Sonu, Aman, Sajid and Tenu are part of the 20,000 foreign fighters fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

With their adopted daughter and foster twins, Jana and Hartmut want to leave Germany for a new life in Greece.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

Vanessa Wagner performs Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes with dancers from the Accrorap company.

They are reclaiming their bodies and freely expressing their sexuality: A focus on sex positive popstars in contemporary culture.

Bach’s St John Passion from Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with the NDR vocal ensemble and Concerto Köln conducted by Klaas Stok.

A complex feeling that is both problematic and useful, the latest research on boredom.

White sand, white citrus blossom, white houses – Spain’s Costa Blanca is aptly named.

Paris city hall is pursuing a green traffic policy: Less cars, more bicycles. But not everybody is pleased.

How can we age well? Ronja von Rönne trys to find out by talking to chimney sweep Norbert Skrobek, who is close to retirement and Monika Gutte who defies age with a zest for life

Using the latest technology, researchers are discovering the bright colours of ancient Greek art and architecture.  

An encounter between piano and dance in a former foundry.