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Not many Israelis are looking forward to another year of war in Gaza. The army brass and the majority of Israelis support a deal to free the 100 or so hostages still held by Hamas in exchange for ending the conflict....

When the cease-fire in Gaza went into effect earlier this week, the joy across the conflict line was palpable from 6,000 miles away. Although it is unlikely that complicated three-phase deal will ever be fully implemented, it will save lives, bring hostages home, and provide Palestinians in Gaza wit...

what Israel’s UNRWA ban means for Palestinians, U.S. private security contractors head to Gaza, and an escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo....

The Gaza cease-fire that took effect on Jan. 19 brought Israeli domestic politics back to the fore—and helped remind people just how vulnerable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is politically....

Israel’s first leader, David Ben-Gurion, initiated Israel’s nuclear project in the mid- to late- 1950s, establishing Israel’s nuclear complex at Dimona, during a period when only three countries had nuclear weapons. A decade later, on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel secretly assembled its fi...

The Abraham Accords, a series of normalization deals signed in 2020 by Israel and Bahrain, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates, remain Trump’s signature foreign policy achievement from his first term, and one hailed by both his allies and staunchest political opponents—including former President J...

In the days since the January 19 cease-fire in Gaza, many Israelis have found themselves in an emotional storm almost as powerful as the shock of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre. The difference, of course, is that this time the storm is driven not by sorrow and unspeakable horror but by joy and—fo...

Two Palestinian children were shot in the back and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Ayman Nasser al-Haymouny, 12, was killed in Hebron while 13-year-old Rimas al-Amouri was shot in the Jenin governorate, the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Wafa news agency confirmed....

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On 18 September 2024, the UNGA adopted a resolution following the ICJ's Advisory Opinion, which condemned Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The ICJ ruled that these actions amount to annexation and apartheid, violating international law and racial discrimination conventions....

Delegations from nine countries gathered in The Hague to unveil “co-ordinated legal, economic, and diplomatic measures” aimed at holding Israel accountable for its violations of international law, amid mounting threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC)....

This extremist, occupying mentality does not understand what the Palestinian land means to the brotherly people of Palestine,' Saudi Foreign Ministry, slamming Israeli prime minister's statements...