Original version

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

From Our Own Correspondent

News

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world.

No Master Brand

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC Afghan Radio

From Our Own Correspondent: After Jenin

Magazines & Reviews

Boy with a Palestinian flag

15/07/2023 GMT

After Jenin

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, After Jenin

Anger and despair drive a new generation of Palestinians, but has the world moved on?

In the aftermath of the Israeli raid on Jenin, the BBC International Editor asks how long will international support continue for a solution to this decades old conflict?

Max Pearson introduces correspondent reports on the Occupied Territories, Russia, the Mediterranean Sea and Somalia.

After violent clashes in Jenin earlier this month, an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal seems as remote as it has ever been. And with some Arab states now normalising relations with Israel, observers ask: is this is a sign that some countries will want to move on from trying to negotiate an end to this decades-long conflict? The BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen hears one view that international support for a Palestinian state might eventually fade, as it has done for the once ubiquitous Free Tibet movement in recent years. But, he says, anger and hopelessness are driving a new generation of Palestinians, who are not concerned whether or not the world is on their side.

Their failed mutiny shook Russia. But what has happened to the Wagner mercenary group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin following last month’s short-lived rebellion? The deal that ended the crisis was supposed to see Wagner disbanded and Yevgeny Prigozhin move to Belarus. Weeks on, the camp in Belarus prepared for Wagner fighters is apparently empty. And not only is Yevgeny Prigozhin a free man, it’s now emerged he was sitting at a table with President Putin just a few days after his supposed march on Moscow. And as Sarah Rainsford discovered, Wagner is still recruiting new members - but, she asks, could President Putin be biding his time?

Almost 2000 people have died so far this year trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. But as Alice Cuddy found on a ship that had just rescued young migrants from The Gambia, the deaths do not seem to have deterred desperate teenage boys and young men from embarking on the long, dangerous journey to seek a better life.

Somalia has a large diaspora that fled the civil war of the 1980s and 90s and the instability and famine that have afflicted the country since. At least 100,000 live in Britain - many are second-generation Somalis who have never been to Somalia. Among them is Soraya Ali - until now. So what was it like to go back 'home'?

Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman

Photo: boy with a Palestinian flag by MOHAMMED SABER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

Accessibility links

Programme Index

From Our Own Correspondent

After Jenin

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

About BBC World Service