Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his country is "at war" with Hamas almost immediately after the militant group launched a brutal terror attack from the Gaza Strip on October 7, killing hundreds and prompting more than two weeks of retaliatory airstrikes on the Palestinian ...
Ismail Haniyeh is Hamas's leader. He ordered the attack from his home in Qatar, and later gave a televised speech hailing it. Yahya Sinwar is the leader of Hamas in Gaza itself - one of the co-founders of its security apparatus. Mohammed Deif is in charge of ...
The Gaza Strip was initially under Egyptian control after the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948. Israel took control of Gaza in 1967 in the aftermath of the Six-day War. Gaza is now under the control of Hamas, a Palestine-based political organization. Israel and several nations of the world con...
Since Israel declared war in response to Hamas’ deadly cross-border attack on Oct. 7, Netanyahu has said a central goal is to destroy the Islamic group’s military capabilities. Israel says Rafah is Hamas’ last major stronghold in the Gaza Strip, after operations elsewhere dismantled 18 out...
The military operation, which involvesextensive bombing of residences, follows asurprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas militants who infiltrated Israel from Gaza andkilled more than 900 Israelis. In reprisal airstrikes, the Israel military haskilled over 800 Gazans. And that figure could escala...
the U.S. taxpayer over $230 million. But what it did accomplish was to distract temporarily from the Biden administration’s refusal to use its ample leverage to compel Israel to stop restricting humanitarian aid to Gaza. In doing so, they bought Israel more time to starve the Strip. ...
Why did Netanyahu choose such timing to bomb Gaza? It would have made more sense to attack Gaza in the run-up to the general elections. For months prior to the April 9 elections, Netanyahu was repeatedly accused of being soft on Hamas. ...
Israeli-Irish relations have become increasingly strained since October 2023, as Ireland criticised the scale of Israel’s military response to the attack orchestrated by Hamas on southern Israel. The death toll in the wake of the invasion of Gaza is nearing 45,000, according to P...
Nearly eight months sinceIsraelwaged war againstGazaafter the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, internet activism has been one of the main avenues people have used to amplify the pro-Palestinian cause and disseminate information about the latest developments. ...
Before the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, there were12 universitiesin Gaza. Palestine is known for having one of thehighest literacy ratesin the world, despite education becoming increasingly inaccessible due to Israeli bombing and the United States cutting off aidused to fund t...