Israel & Palestine

Neither side appears to want a full-blown war, but it could happen anyway

One of the most senior Hamas members has reportedly been killed by Israel in an audacious attack far from the front line.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that a mix of intentional tactics and unintended consequences contributed to one of the deadliest bombings of the Gaza war

Comments come amid rising criticism of the war in Gaza

Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued late into the night on Friday, with reports of sustained air strikes and ground attacks.

153 nations voted for the ceasefire resolution in a rebuke to the US, which last week blocked a similar Security Council resolution

Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, faced rising pressure after her answers to questions about antisemitism. Some faculty members signed a petition supporting her.

A race against the clock in southern Gaza

The IDF can hand Hamas either a Pyrrhic victory or a real one

Hebron is the richest and most populated city in the West Bank. Tensions between Israeli settlers and Palestinian locals have been on the rise there since the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel's retaliatory air strikes on Gaza. Israeli soldiers multiply patrols in the Old City of Hebron to protect some 800 Israeli settlers who occupy houses around the Cave of the Patriarchs, a sacred shrine to both Jews and Muslims. Our reporters James Andre and Julie Dungelhoeff went to meet members of both communities. 

Israel asks residents of south Gaza to evacuate some areas

Mia Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli hostage who appeared in a sick Hamas video, has finally been released by the terror group.

Some of the captives are coming home. But there’s little relief in this temporary pause to the fighting. “It’s happiness wrapped in sadness,” one newly-freed woman tells Rolling Stone

Young activists often see the world as split between the oppressed and their oppressors—and their views are markedly different than those of older Americans.

A long-term cease-fire would likely require both sides to make hard-to-swallow concessions

Police in Vermont arrest a male suspect over the attack which they are investigating as a possible hate crime.

Families and children kidnapped from southern Israel's Kibbutz Beeri were among the 13 Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Saturday, according to accounts given to AFP by their relatives, Israeli press, and the Hostage Families Forum.