Gvili, the last Israeli hostage still held in Gaza, was killed on October 7. According to Netanyahu's office, Israel launched a large-scale operation over the weekend, centered on a cemetery in Gaza City's Tuffah neighborhood
More than two years after his son Liam Or was freed from Gaza captivity, Ramzy Nassar said he chose not to disclose his Arab identity to protect him. 'It's not something that Hamas would take well,' he said, warning his son could have been seen as 'a traitor, the son of a traitor'
The Rafah crossing is just a small detail in the bigger picture. Although readied for aid transit, only people will be allowed to cross, likely with severe restrictions in both directions: by Egypt on those wanting to leave Gaza, and by Israel on those wanting to enter
The sources said it was still not clear how Israel planned to enforce limits on the number of Palestinians entering Gaza from Egypt, or what ratio of exits to entries it aimed to achieve
Hamas and Washington reportedly reached an understanding on disarming the group and letting it become a legitimate political party. Hamas has agreed to a clean handover of power to Gaza technocrats backed by the U.S., but police and bureaucrats will become the group's new grazing pasture
A source close to Netanyahu said Israel has been using the Rafah crossing as leverage against Hamas, which has yet to return the remains of Ran Gvili, the last deceased hostage still in Gaza. Nonetheless, the U.S.-backed administrator of Gaza said the crossing will reopen next week
Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza
As Trump divides the world to those with him and those against him, it is enough to look at his disagreements with European countries to get the impression that Gaza and Palestine are marginal issues for the U.S. president, and that Israel's influence is limited
The U.S. pressure follows reports that Israel is blocking members of the committee from entering Gaza. Saudi-based Asharq News cited sources who said Egypt told committee members the U.S. is pressing Israel to expedite the reopening of the Rafah crossing in both directions
A survey commission by three left-leaning Jewish groups finds that most Canadian Jews justify the war in Gaza, but two-thirds also support the October cease-fire. Nearly half of Canadian Jews fear that the Israeli government's judicial overhaul will weaken democracy
The Palestinian committee set to administer Gaza under Trump's cease-fire proposal was set to enter the enclave and assert administrative control by the end of the week, sources say. Egypt is working with the U.S. to facilitate entry by the end of January
If there is one thing on which there is no dispute, it is that the discourse of revenge has been prominent since October 7, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to 'forcefully avenge this dark day.' Palestinian residents of Gaza as the modern representatives of Amalek
As maternal mortality surges in post-war Gaza, and newborns face cold, infection and malnutrition, pregnancy and childbirth are daily fights for survival. Women and their babies, universally noncombatants, are suffering disproportionately – and serve as a measure of our moral failure
Pitched as a temporary solution to replace Hamas in Gaza, the members of Donald Trump's Board of Peace are being announced this week. But the Palestinians who would actually live under its governance in Gaza dismiss the initiative as a U.S.-led effort to control Gaza from outside
If neither Hamas nor Netanyahu want the Gaza cease-fire, why would grand announcements and vague plans, against the backdrop of the immense geopolitical chaos wrought by Trump, change anything on the ground?
In a conversation with Ben Shapiro, the presumed 2028 Democratic frontrunner affirmed Hamas as a terrorist group, but said attacks on civilians in Gaza 'weren't just collateral,' and revealed that in a conversation with Netanyahu after October 7, 'I kept talking about Hamas, he kept talking about Palestinians'
The interim government in Dhaka didn't consult major political parties – or even its own cabinet – before deciding 'in principle' to send peacekeeping troops to Gaza. Amid domestic unrest, imminent elections and wariness about U.S. pressure, the backlash in Bangladesh is building
As U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff announces the next phase of Trump's Gaza plan, satellite images reveal the IDF extending the Yellow Line it controls deeper into Hamas-held areas, while Hamas builds tent cities