Israel's war in the Gaza Strip has been on a long but decisive slide: From hard military aims to a fundamentally political mission. With the help of Hamas' October 7 attack, the notion of Israel recapturing Gaza was revived. With the help of Trump, Netanyahu now constantly talks about a Palestinian exodus
The meeting with a toadying Netanyahu serves Trump's self-image at a time when even his voters have started to question his judgment ■ The killing of aid workers in Gaza exposes a widespread practice of harming civilians
The strike in southern Gaza killed journalist Hilmi al-Faqawi, and one other young man. The Israeli army claims the strike targeted his colleague Hassan Islayh, critically wounded in the strike, who it says is a member of Hamas
The Guardian reported that the 10 British citizens, some of whom are dual nationals, are accused of being involved in Gaza war crimes ■ One of the lawyers alleging the offenses said the team wants the soldiers to 'answer for their atrocity crimes' in England's Central Criminal Court
The IDF chief's predecessor had a hard time maintaining operational discipline in the IDF while a war of revenge was conducted in Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. The new IDF chief is now free of this – and determined to set the army straight
ISRAEL: Netanyahu lands in Washington ■ GAZA: 11 killed in Israeli strike near Gaza City, medical sources say; Hamas says it fired rockets from Gaza at south Israel ■ IRAN: Israeli defense minister claims to have acquired proof of Iranian support of Hamas on October 7
The IDF said it fired on a vehicle in southern Gaza it claimed was carrying Hamas police officers, while the Palestinian Red Crescent said it was an ambulance. The IDF has not yet provided evidence showing that the vehicle was affiliated with Hamas
According to the senior official, Israel is 'very serious' about implementing the Trump plan to remove Gaza residents. 'What we would like to see is rescuing the hostages, eliminating Hamas, and creating a large-scale opportunity for voluntary migration,' he said
The so-called Morag route in southern Gaza is named after the Israeli Morag settlement, which was located between Khan Yunis and Rafah and evacuated during Israel's 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip
International agencies are warning of famine looming over hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Gaza, as food supply is running out. 'The most basic right of all – food – simply doesn't exist,' a 60-year-old Gaza resident said. 'Just Drop an atomic bomb on us so we all die at once'
GAZA: Netanyahu announces IDF capturing the 'second Philadelphi route' in southern Gaza ■ YEMEN: U.S. sanctions network of companies that bought supplies for the Houthis through Russia ■ WEST BANK: Settlers raid village in West Bank, set fire to property
Since the cease-fire, some residents returned to their destroyed homes – only to be ordered to leave again, this time to an area the IDF is bombing from the air. 'There is no safe place in Gaza anymore. It's all lies – everywhere is a target,' says one Palestinian
The UN warned of a humanitarian collapse after Israel blockaded all entryways to Gaza, noting that over 142,000 Gazans were ordered to evacuate without anywhere to go, lacking electricity, water, food, and safety
Gidi Ehrenhalt was captured on October 7, 1973, when the Syrian army attacked the outpost he was stationed in during the Yom Kippur War. Today, he says the images of released hostages from Gaza trigger a post-traumatic reaction from his own time in captivity: 'My body reacted with trembling'
Innocent Palestinians are regularly forced by soldiers to enter houses in Gaza to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives. So why is the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opening only six investigations into the use of human shields?
Document obtained by TheMarker shows how Shlomi Fogel, a controlling shareholder of Israel Shipyards, helped coordinate Israeli-approved cash transfers from Doha to Gaza in the late 2010s and early 2020s. PMO: Security agencies handled the payments
Yael, mother of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, says Israel's return to fighting in Gaza last week broke her family. While it feels like the government is focused on everything but negotiations, she remains optimistic: 'We know it'll be good in the end'
The IDF's plan for Gaza is not very different from the right's fantasy, but the General Staff is struggling to counter a culture of refusal ■ This will be the first stage in the current war that does not have a full public consensus
Even though Netanyahu is continuing to promise his voters a rapid victory over Hamas in Gaza, historically the arena that most interests him is Iran ■ The destruction in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp may be widespread, but it's still nothing like what happened in Gaza
Enthusiasm reigned in Israel last week over a successful attack that was said to have wiped out hundreds of Hamas militants. But the testimony from Gaza tells a different story