"The purpose of this mission is to send a message that civil society is not OK with what's happening in Gaza," said Fellipe Lopes, the Portuguese media coordinator of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition on board the ship Handala during a stopover in Malta. It will be a trip fraught with dange...
"A Palestinian State would mean an Iranian base in Gaza and Judea and Samaria," Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday. He added that Iran and Hamas have capitalized on the Palestinian issue and that just like they did in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, an...
This week, Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, said that Iran would retaliate for the killing of Hamas leaderIsmail Haniyehin Tehran on July 31. The comments were reported in Iranian state media. His reference to Iran’s “response” to Israel is part of a kind of drum roll by...
In between those wars, it has fired or allowed other groups to fire thousands of rockets at Israel, and carried out other deadly attacks. Israel has also repeatedly attacked Hamas with air strikes, and, together with Egypt, has blockaded the Gaza Strip since 2007, for what it says is its ...
Israel, Gaza, and what happens nextGeoff Porter
Why There's No Excuse for Israelis Not Knowing What's Happening in Gaza Israel's mainstream media reporting on the war is remarkably conformist and inward-looking, but it is not the only reason for the dearth of coverage of t...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will press ahead with the war after the cease-fire expires. Some 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, mostly during the initial incursion by Hamas. Recommended from Editorial Here’s what’s happening in the war: ...
With Israel poised for a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in response to this month's brutal terror attack, retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former CIA director, said there needs to be a vision for the post-conflict phase. Petraeus, a co-author of "...
Israel does not yet have diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. It also needs to maintain security and military restraint over the Gaza Strip to avoid any possibility of a Hamas revival. Above all, regional relationships would need to be agreed upon. Also, while gas is less polluting than coa...
IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024 (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) SORT BY DECEMBER 12, 2024 19:37 IDF eliminates multiple Hamas terrorists, including Zeitoun commander, in Gaza strike ...