America's special envoy to the crisis, David Satterfield, said this weekend that he has not seen any attempts by Hamas to interfere with or take aid shipments destined for civilians from the few trucks allowed in last week. But that hasn't prompted Israel to change course so far. I...
冰冷数据穿透战争迷雾(How many people have died in Gaza?) From the very start of Israel's war against Hamas, the death toll in Gaza has been disputed. On May 8th the controversy over the numbers, which media organisations includingThe Economistuse, intensified after the UN appeared to revise ...
For Israelis, victory does not just include breaking Hamas – but rebuilding the pastoral South, which was safe and blooming, in undisputed territory behind pre-1967 borders, until Israel, trying for peace, disengaged from Gaza in 2005. Then Israel, pressed heavily by a deluded international comm...
In today’s Daily Kickoff, we take a deep dive into Politico’s reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, and talk to Senate Democrats about their stances on a potential Israeli incursion into Rafah. Also in today’s Daily Kickoff: Len Blavatnik, Israeli MK Mansour Abbasand Director of National ...
More than six months into the Israel-Hamas war, here is a timeline of how the aid and hunger crisis has unfolded in Gaza.
Two, it demonstrated that they had no compunction about killing as many civilians as possible. There's a very famous formulation about terrorism from the 1970s by Bryan Jenkins, one of the main academics to study terrorism in this country: you want a lot of people ...
“There are children in Gaza, and 800 children have already died in Gaza from our bombs. And even if they’re stuck between the murderousness of Hamas and our bombs in Israel, we must say that we need to do everything to prevent children from dying.” Both Saba and his wife ...
Yahya Ayyash was the chief bomb maker for Hamas during the early 1990s. This means that as Israel and the Palestinians engaged in peace talks, Ayyash was building bombs specifically to kill civilians and destroy the peace talks. He was responsible for several bus bombings at the time, including...
The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza.
“We couldn’t imagine that hundreds of terrorists could invade Israel like this,” Amir Ben Natan, a 37-year-old stock trader from Herzliya, says. “I feel like I was hunted. They tried to kill me. Not just me, everyone at the festival. We were helpless. We were unarmed civili...