KEREM SHALOM, Israel — It’s approaching 1 a.m. Yosef de Bresser, 22, is in the thick of planning. He fields calls from the car as it zips along dirt roads just outside southern Gaza near Egypt. “Are people there?” he asks. Around 40, he’s told. He taps out a WhatsApp message to rally more: “We … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave EILON, Israel — For years, David Shtift tried to convince the Israeli army that Hezbollah militants, a mile away in Lebanon, would make good on their threats to attack Israel. Shtift and his neighbors said they saw Hezbollah special forces massing along the border and establishing lookout … Read more
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus has disrupted an alleged Iranian plot to target Israeli businessmen with the arrest of two Iranian asylum-seekers who were in contact with another Iranian associated with the Revolutionary Guard, a Cypriot official said Tuesday. The official told The Associated Press the two Iranian men have been in police custody since Nov. … Read more
The fog of war currently shrouding Hamas and Israel is not the only fog obscuring a path forward in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While each side’s worst trauma has been triggered by Hamas’s depraved mass slaughter and Israel’s scorched-earth counter-attack—for Jews the Holocaust, for Palestinians, the Nakba—the fighting has also exposed a fundamental divide between two … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave AMMAN — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in the streets in several locations across Gaza on Thursday, claiming they were closing in on the hideouts of key commanders as the United Nations appealed for an urgent end to the war to avert an imminent “humanitarian catastrophe.” Some … Read more
It was easy to miss, amid the horrors, what answered them. In the blood-soaked weeks that started on Oct. 7, the most consequential acts in Israel and in Gaza may also have been the least noticed, carried out not by those who claimed leadership but by those whom leaders had failed. The people who pulled … Read more
JERUSALEM — There was no trace of Hanan Yablonka — not on the 42-year-old Israeli’s social media accounts nor on his phone, found in the bullet-riddled car he and three friends tried to flee in after Hamas militants attacked the music festival they were attending in southern Israel. The friends were killed in the Oct. … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — As Israel and Hamas agreed Monday to extend a tense, temporary pause in combat, outside parties have dared to hope that the break in violence will evolve into a more prolonged halt to a war that has already laid waste to much of Gaza. Qatari … Read more
PARIS — Holding olive branches and white banners, French performers from different religious and ethnic backgrounds led thousands of people on a silent march through central Paris on Sunday to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and unity in France. The crowd, which included actors Isabelle Adjani and Emmanuelle Beart as well as singers … Read more
New opinion polls just released from Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index indicate that Israeli attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are more hawkish than at any point in recent memory. Both surveys were conducted in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre and the resulting war with Hamas, and sampled approximately 600 … Read more