Israel has ordered a "complete siege" on Gaza following a major attack by Hamas over the weekend. The death toll on both sides has soared over 1,200, with at least nine Americans among the dead. Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the director for the ce...
What Gaza, Israel needSara Demari
Dr Daphne Richemond-Barak, an expert on underground warfare who teaches at Reichman University in Israel, said the IDF videos are "consistent" with Hamas tunnels. She told Sky News: "What we saw in those pictures were very typical, very classic of the Hamas ...
Ben-Gvir’s prickly pushback underscores the extreme lopsidedness and moral folly of the U.S.’s relationship with Israel as it wreaks havoc in Gaza. The U.S. provides Israel with extraordinary financial and military assistance and diplomatic cover; President Joe Biden has e...
"There needs to be a vision for that. I think that Prime Minister Netanyahu would be well advised to not only say what they're going to try to do to Hamas, but realistically … also talk about the future of Gaza and a future, even a vision for the Palestinian people post-conflict,"...
Image:Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. Pic: AP What is Hamas? Hamas is the political organisation that administers the Gaza Strip, in charge of two million people. It was created in 1987 during an uprising against Is...
Israel has been urging civilians in the Strip to evacuate to safe areas in southern Gaza, as its military operation began in the northern part of the Strip. As a result, more than one million people, or more than half of Gaza's total population, poured into Rafah to seek shelter, most...
This also fuels the next question that we are not even close to: who will Israel try to hand control of Gaza over to? The question is “try,” because no one may be willing to take control: whether the Palestinian Authority, the UN, a Western coalition, an Arab coalition, or a hybri...
What is the Gaza Strip? The Gaza Strip is a 41km (25-mile) long and 10km-wide territory between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. It is home to about 2.3 million people and has one of the highest population densities in the world. ...
The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas lasted for seven days before fighting resumed Friday. Israel says over 100 hostages are still held by Hamas. CBS News contributor Robert Berger has more on what may happen to them.