Adding to the increased threat of Gaza-related violence spilling into other parts of or beyond the Middle East, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, warned for the second time in a week that Hezbollah would retaliate. “We’ll choose the right place and the right time, but the field will respon...
As the conflict over the Gaza Strip continues, you may have heard the term "Zionism." But what is Zionism? Read on to learn more about the term, the birth of the modern Zionism movement and what role the ideology plays in the Israel-Hamas War. Contents Zionism Defined Criticisms of ...
Image:IDF image purportedly showing Israeli forces operating in Gaza. Pic:IDF/Telegram They're heavily edited - the soldiers and locations pretty much unidentifiable. But they do give us a glimpse of what the invasion ofGazalooks like. I write my stories clearly ident...
Hamas is one of the two major political parties in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Founded in 1987 during an uprising against Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the group was originally a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which favours Islamist principles - ...
Why the Gaza Strip is important The Gaza Strip is the centre of political conflict between the Jewish State of Israel and Arab-dominated Palestine. The conflict is over each nation’s right to exist independently and land ownership, especially Jerusalem. ...
The Guardian decided to censor the Letter to America from Osama bin Laden, as it was going viral upon being rediscovered in the context of the current Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. credit: #OsamaBinLadenLetter to USAThe original and the translation. pic.twitter.com/h1lu4ooiDv— Samir Nofa...
The Palestinians of Gaza trend young:nearly half the population is under 18. The enclave is also very poor, with apoverty rate that stands at 53%. Despite this grim economic picture, education levels are quite high.Over 95%of Gazan children ages 6-12 are in school. The majority of Pales...
and it makes it even more imperative for those Jewish communities to spell out to Israel just how badly their position outside Israel is actually affected, and that Israel should, from their perspective, do everything it can to avoid creating the conditions (such as the Gaza conflict) that ...
The takeover caused Egypt and Israel to close their land borders and begin a blockade. Hamas's retaliation led to the first Gaza-Israel war in 2008. Hamas has been the government since then - running the civil service and carrying out the functions of a state such...
Relatives mourn over the bodies of the Abu Khatab family, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, at the Shifa Hospital morgue in Gaza City on May 15. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images A nurse holds an injured baby at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on May 15. The baby was pulle...