A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and freeing scores of hostages
September 03, 2024
The latest flurry of Gaza cease-fire talks — the back-and-forth over now-familiar sticking points and appeals from around the world — obscures a grim truth about the monthslong efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war and free scores of hostages
August 28, 2024
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire over the weekend that briefly raised fears of an all-out war
August 25, 2024
Israel wants lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, which Hamas has long rejected
August 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet with Israel’s prime minister on Monday as mediators say they are closing in on a deal to halt the war in Gaza and free hostages captured by Hamas
August 19, 2024
Yahya Sinwar’s appointment as the top leader of Hamas formalizes a role he assumed in the early hours of Oct. 7, when the surprise attack into Israel that he helped mastermind ushered in the bloodiest chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
August 07, 2024
The latest proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza has the support of the United States and most of the international community, but Hamas has not fully embraced it, and neither, it seems, has Israel
June 12, 2024
The four captives rescued by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip were abducted from a desert rave near the border during Hamas’ wide-ranging assault into Israel on Oct. 7
June 08, 2024
The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep
May 19, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country’s closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza
May 18, 2024
One major land crossing into Gaza was shut down after a Hamas rocket attack, another by an Israeli incursion
May 09, 2024
Over the last five months, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, destroyed dozens of their tunnels and wreaked unprecedented destruction on the Gaza Strip
March 06, 2024
The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister has announced his government’s resignation
February 26, 2024
From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip
February 21, 2024
U.S. and Mideast mediators appeared optimistic in recent days that they are closing in on a deal for a two-month cease-fire in Gaza and the release of over 100 hostages held by Hamas
January 30, 2024
Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack have led several Western countries to cut off funding and reignited debate over Gaza’s biggest humanitarian aid provider
January 28, 2024
As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians
October 12, 2023
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