Israeli army

Graffiti showing Hazbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Tel Aviv, after Israel's assassination of the leader in Beirut, September 29, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

For Israel’s weary army, war in Lebanon is an attempt to salvage its image

Dystopian displays of technological prowess serve to distract the Israeli public from the military's failure to achieve its long-stated war aims.

By Sophia Goodfriend October 2, 2024

Police officers at the scene of a car bombing in Ramle, September 5, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

How weapons from the Gaza war are killing Palestinians on Israel’s streets

Arab crime organizations are carrying out attacks using smuggled military explosives, with experts accusing the government of turning a blind eye.

By Baker Zoubi October 1, 2024

Palestinians participate in an activity with pets at the Basmat Amal camp for displaced people with disabilities, Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 14, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

For Gazans with disabilities, Israel’s genocide shows no mercy

Feeling but not hearing the bombs, displaced without their specialized equipment, mauled by army dogs: this is how Palestinians with physical and cognitive impairments are surviving and dying amid Israel’s onslaught.

By Ibtisam Mahdi September 27, 2024

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Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, September 23, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

With pager blasts and airstrikes, Israel unleashes its terror on Lebanon

Israeli leaders have threatened to replicate the ‘Gaza model’ in south Lebanon. But Hezbollah may prove to be an even more challenging foe than Hamas.

By Elia Ayoub September 23, 2024

The bed of 13-year-old Bana Laboum, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in her room in the village of Qaryut, occupied West Bank, September 15, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Settlers attacked Bana’s village. Then a soldier shot her through her window

After Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians with rocks and Molotov cocktails, soldiers raided Qaryut and killed a 13-year-old as she stood in her bedroom.

By Oren Ziv September 23, 2024

Friends, activists, Palestinian, and Turkish officials take part in an honorary funeral for Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israeli forces in Beita on Sept. 6, in the West Bank city of Nablus, September 8, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

‘She came here out of love’: Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army

Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists.

By Oren Ziv September 10, 2024

Israeli military forces seen during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 2, 2024. (Flash90)

Inside the brutal siege of Jenin

The Israeli army is destroying civilian infrastructure, blocking medical access, and conducting mass arrests in its largest West Bank operation in years.

By Mariam Barghouti September 4, 2024

Palestinians mourn the death of their relatives in an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Awda School in Abasan, east of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute

In the past, Israel’s moral debate about its military actions may have been narrow and hypocritical, but at least it existed. Not this time.

By Meron Rapoport August 23, 2024

Ismail Al-Ghoul. (Courtesy of Al Jazeera)

In memory of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, Gaza City’s voice to the world

How do we continue with business as usual after another friend, and another icon of Palestinian journalism, was brutally killed by Israel for doing his job?

By Mohammed R. Mhawish August 7, 2024

Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller. (Oren Ziv)

Three Israeli army refusers: ‘We will not participate in genocide’

Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.

By Oren Ziv August 7, 2024

Iron dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, May 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

We’re already in a regional war. Only a Gaza ceasefire can end it

As long as Palestinians were the primary casualties, Israel’s allies indulged its military hubris. Now they fear the bitter fruits of their mistake.

By Amjad Iraqi August 6, 2024

Soldiers from the Israeli army's Sky Rider unit seen operating a UAV during a training drill at the Tze'elim army base, near the Gaza Strip, August 5, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war

The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham August 4, 2024

Soldiers prevent protesters from entering the Beit Lid military base, July 29, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

A riot for impunity shows Israel’s proud embrace of its crimes

Far-right protesters, soldiers, and MKs rallied for guards suspected of raping a Palestinian detainee. Once fringe, they’re now the public face of the state.

By Oren Ziv August 1, 2024