On October 7th, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, resulting in approximately 1,200 deaths and more than 250 hostages taken by the group. Israel responded with a large-scale military operation in Gaza. Looking back over the past year, what has this war, triggered by theHamas...
How Israel Can Solve Its Gaza ProblemKuperwasser, YossiMiddle East Quarterly
The ceasefire got off to a rocky start when its implementation was delayed several hours over Hamas' initial failure to provide Israel with a list of hostages to be released. The ceasefire came into force after Israel confirmed receipt of this list....
Israel’s mowing-the-grass strategy finally failed spectacularly on Oct. 7. The Hamas attack underscored just how little control Israel has over Gaza. It was not just anintelligencefailure and an operational failure but also a more sweeping strategic failure. The core premise behind Israe...
TEL AVIV —Hamas’ unprecedented raid on southern Israel has prompted a legal predicament: How does a countryscarred by the deadliest attackin its history bring the perpetrators to justice? Israel is holdinghundreds of Palestiniansfrom Gaza accused of taking part in ...
Musician Justin Bieber faced backlash for a now-deleted Instagram post in solidarity with Israel that mistakenly used a photo of destruction in Gaza. Jeffrey Dvorkin, a senior fellow at the University of Toronto's Massey College and former managing editor of CBC Radio, said...
Three days later the police repeated the operation as the violence escalated further. Later that day the first of the Hamas rockets were fired from Gaza. Israel’s problem in Gaza is that it cannot prevent the rockets being fired without a military ground force intervention. However, the last...
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Gaza. Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images Montana's elected officials respond. Our elected officials have condemned the attack. The complexities of the Middle East are far beyond the scope of this article, but we hope tensions and the brutal fighting between Israel and Hamas cool down. Like...
During the raid, the fighters located six terrorist tunnel shafts, one of them inside a mosque and one in an orchard near the mosque.