
Lina Khatib: ‘The Hamas attack has wide support among Palestinians’
The director of the SOAS Middle East Institute says that the Palestinian militia does not have the capacity to act without the support of Iran

The director of the SOAS Middle East Institute says that the Palestinian militia does not have the capacity to act without the support of Iran
Tehran had opposed the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states and is now gaining notoriety for its alleged support for Hamas

The escalation of clashes along the border with Lebanon threatens to open a new front for the Israeli Army in the midst of an open war against Hamas

The U.S. president, who considers the Hamas attack ‘sheer evil,’ is in constant conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The former Israeli foreign minister considers the attack by the Palestinian militia one of the greatest crimes against peace and accuses Netanyahu of having strengthened Hamas by ignoring the Palestinian National Authority

The conflict threatens wider consequences such as the cooling of the Israeli-Saudi dialogue, new tensions between the West and Iran, and accusations of double standards leveled at Israel’s supporters

Negotiations are focused on stopping the spiral of violence and releasing the hostages held in Gaza, but the magnitude of the current crisis makes any progress difficult
Islamic movement says it will begin executing Israeli civilian hostages for every new unannounced Israeli airstrike

Republicans have accused the Biden administration of indirectly financing the Hamas offensive through the unfreezing of funds to Iran in prisoner swap deal

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 high death toll, multiple captives and slow response to the onslaught pointed to a major intelligence failure and undermined the long-held perception that Israel has eyes and ears everywhere

The potential for prolonged and expanding violence could test Biden’s leadership on both the world stage and at home as he tries to navigate between demonstrating unflinching support for Israel and fostering a broader peace in the combustible Mideast

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

Previous conflicts brought widespread death and destruction in Gaza and days of rocket fire on Israeli towns. The situation is potentially more volatile now, with Israel’s far-right government stung by the security breach and with Palestinians in despair over a never-ending occupation in the West Bank and suffocating blockade
The deadly Palestinian coordinated action comes amid rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, anathema to the Islamist movement that rules Gaza

Palestinian forces launch over 2,200 rockets and deploy armed militias into Israel. The Israeli army responds by bombing Gaza

Israel’s admission has been a priority for successive Israeli leaders and will be a major accomplishment for Netanyahu

The U.S. has been seeking to broker an agreement in which Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for a U.S. defense pact, aid in developing a civilian nuclear program and progress toward creating a Palestinian state

The president pushed the prime minister to find a compromise on a planned deep judicial reform that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington

The businessman argues that the fee is aimed at combating the army of bots on the social network

The Israeli Prime Minister kicked off a US trip with the meeting with Musk, before heading to New York for the UN General Assembly

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

Netanyahu’s coalition, a collection of ultranationalist and ultrareligious lawmakers, unveiled the overhaul earlier this year, saying it was necessary to rein in an unelected judiciary they believe wields too much power

All 15 of Israel’s Supreme Court justices will appear on the bench — for the first time ever — on Tuesday to hear an appeal against the first part of the overhaul that parliament passed in July