Antonio Pita

Shelling on the Strip intensifies and Hamas responds with a barrage of rockets on Ashkelon. Syria and Lebanon fire shells on Israeli territory

Israel claimed to have found 1,500 dead bodies of militiamen on its soil, as 200,000 Palestinians in Gaza sought refuge. An Israeli attack killed two senior Hamas officials

Islamic movement says it will begin executing Israeli civilian hostages for every new unannounced Israeli airstrike

Analysts believe the success of the surprise operation by the Gaza militias lies in Israel’s overconfidence and the lack of intelligence information and preparation in the middle of the Jewish holiday

The Israeli Army has still not regained control of the entire territory and continues to fight against Palestinian militia members who infiltrated the country

Gaza militia members are demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of the captives. In the past, the Jewish state has paid a high price in swaps for soldiers, living or dead

The deadly Palestinian coordinated action comes amid rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, anathema to the Islamist movement that rules Gaza

The establishment of relations between Riyadh and the Jewish state would be a triumph for Washington. Biden is scheduled to meet Netanyahu next week in New York to discuss ‘integration in the region’

Israel’s lead negotiator of the 30-year-old agreement is an optimist, but warns that the country’s leaders can either lead it ‘to peace or war’

Israelis and Palestinians have ignored an anniversary that is now associated with the failure and assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The hopes raised by the pact have evaporated

Members of the small and independent Fulcro theater group – who left Saint Petersburg because of the war – are trying out another scene in Israel

A fiction series takes on the 2011 rape accusation of the then-president, Moshe Katsav. The case had such an impact on the country that only television has dared to deal with it

The court lets it take effect but will hear appeals by critics of PM Netanyahu’s judicial reform. The case has no legal precedent in the country

Set during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the movie stars Helen Mirren as the renowned prime minister

Five Israeli newspapers ran frontpages in black, an advertisement paid for by the high-tech sector following the passage of the controversial reform

The ties between both countries are caught up in the matter of Western Sahara. Rabat has postponed the opening of an Israeli embassy, while Netanyahu has delayed recognizing Moroccan authority over the former Spanish colony

Hours after the massive evacuation of hundreds of families, the Israeli military operation has come to an end after almost 48 hours and 12 deaths

The community, which is celebrating International Pride Day, has been hit by both the rise of the far right and hate speech in democratic countries and by the wave of religious extremism in authoritarian regimes

The former chief of justice returns to the public arena to accuse the executive of trying to ‘control the entire judicial system to promote an ideology that is against equal rights’

The Cuban artist visited Palestine after almost three years of recreating, from a distance, places like Zaatari or Dadaab in watercolor

Migrants escaping the poverty of the Latin American country are now wondering whether to go back, as Venezuela’s economy slightly improves while Lebanon’s remains in a tailspin

European diplomats are asking union officials to ‘unequivocally’ show opposition to the Israeli government’s plans to alter the status and borders of the disputed city

Palestinian identity continues to be marked by exodus and dispossession, with today’s youth longing for the right to return to the hometowns of their grandparents

‘My father used to tell us: ‘I can die at any moment.’ What I could not imagine is that they would also take my mother and my sister,’ says the son of one of the leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed by a missile

Demonstrations target military and economic ‘burden-sharing,’ consumer price hikes and the separation of religion and state

The anniversary takes place against a backdrop of protests over Netanyahu’s judicial reform, which has exposed many underlying differences going back decades

Energy poverty across the country is driving deforestation. Hundreds of oak, pine, fir and juniper trees — some of them centuries old — have been illegally cut down