A group of 71 residents of the enclave with Israeli passports were treated as potential Hamas sympathizers, interrogated and threatened. ‘After this, you will not return to Gaza. There will be no Gaza left to return to’
‘Soon we will be able to distinguish between different areas of Gaza,’ the Israeli Defense Minister told his American counterpart, opening the door to the gradual return of displaced Palestinians
The artist represented Israel at Eurovision with a controversial song about peace in a duet with her famous friend Noa. That was in 2009. She wouldn’t do it again today. She criticizes both Hamas and Israelis’ ‘blindness’ when it comes to Gaza
The award-winning singer, who represented Israel at Eurovision in 2009 in a duet for peace with her Arab friend Mira Awad, says that the Hamas attack on October 7 and the bombings in Gaza have reinforced her conviction about the need to end the Middle East conflict
Following the Hamas attack, the Israeli government froze crossing permits for Palestinians working in the country and in Jewish settlements, especially in construction. Faced with the economic downturn, the government is looking for new cheap labor in Africa and is considering revoking the measure
‘Even on this difficult evening, we will bind up our wounds, learn the lessons and continue with a supreme effort to return all our hostages home safely,’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement
Tens of thousands of Palestinians remain in the northern part of the enclave, despite evacuation orders. Without humanitarian aid, which is restricted to the south, every day is an odyssey to find food and water
The U.S. president said Israel must change its government and warned that the country is ‘starting to lose support’ over its ‘indiscriminate’ bombing of Gaza
Grief over the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas has given way to euphoria over the advance of troops in Gaza. Polls show that 57% of the Jewish majority see the military force used in the first weeks of bombing as insufficient
Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian enclave have shared dozens of videos mocking the destruction of Gaza, trivializing the bombings and playing with objects found in abandoned houses
‘This is more proof of the Secretary-General’s moral distortion and his bias against Israel,’ the country’s ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan said
The death of Yuval Doron Castleman, who soldiers mistook for a Palestinian during an attack on a bus stop in Jerusalem, has opened a debate about the rules of engagement and the mass distribution of weapons permits to civilians
The army is urging civilians to leave part of the city of Khan Yunis, which hosts some 200,000 displaced persons from the north. The Israeli secret services assure that they will kill all Hamas leaders ‘in every location’ even if it ‘takes a few years’
The images have gone around the world because they show — in an unusually unequivocal way — the deaths of two unarmed Palestinian minors
The heads of the intelligence services of Israel, the U.S. and Egypt are seeking in Doha a new extension of the agreement, which the Arab mediators want to turn into a definitive ceasefire. For its part, the Israeli army warns that it is ‘ready to continue fighting’
Inhabitants of the Strip want the temporary truce to become definitive while the families of Israeli hostages have called for ‘the return of all of them, immediately, whatever it takes’
Mediators are attempting to extend the truce between Israel and Hamas despite mutual accusations and isolated episodes of non-compliance
Residents of the Strip take advantage of the beginning of the truce to look for food and try to find out if their loved ones are still alive
The agreement, which also involves the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip, was to begin to be implemented Thursday morning. Shortly before its entry into force, the Israeli national security advisor clarified that it would not take place before Friday due to last minute differences
The origin, nature and ideology of the Palestinian militia is far removed from that of the jihadist group, although the tactics used in the October 7 attack have led the Netanyahu government to equate them
The pact, which includes the entry of hundreds of trucks with aid supplies into the Strip, represents the greatest diplomatic milestone of the war
In an interview in Jerusalem, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs emphasizes that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is ‘absolutely horrific’ and admits that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ‘is very divisive in Europe’
Josep Borrell stresses that ‘all human lives have the same value’ after pointing out that innocent civilians, including thousands of children, have died in recent weeks
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says that it is running out of fuel reserves for its humanitarian operations in the enclave, while Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has threatened to attack Beirut
Police detained four former Palestinian MPs on their way to a protest in Nazareth. Persecution of displays of solidarity with Gaza grows after hundreds of interrogations, arbitrary dismissals and monitoring of social networks
The veteran politician, who has joined the new emergency government formed for the war, says that destroying Hamas sends a message to neighboring countries and that Israel will establish buffer areas in the enclave, which may be mined
The Israeli Minister of Defense declares that the army is already ‘in the heart’ of Gaza City as entire families flee on foot, with white flags and arms raised, from the area most affected by the bombings