October 2023 war

Asser and Aysal Abu Al-Qumsan, killed when they were four days old. (Courtesy of Muhammad Abu Al-Qumsan)

The Gazan infants who never saw their first birthday

For thousands of Palestinian parents, the joy of giving birth rapidly turned to grief when their newborn babies were killed by Israel's bombardment.

By Ibrahim Mohammad September 18, 2024

Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza city, July 28, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam

As Israeli ministers, generals, and academics bay for a decisive new phase in the war, this is what Operation Starvation and Extermination would look like.

By Meron Rapoport September 17, 2024

Displaced Palestinians inspect the damage from an Israeli airstrike, in Al-Mawasi, September 10, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘People torn to pieces’ in Israeli airstrike on Gaza displacement camp

Israeli bombs set tents ablaze and left deep craters in the earth as the army attacked Al-Mawasi, a designated 'safe zone', for the fifth time.

By Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha September 12, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the need for Israeli troops to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor during a Hebrew press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?

Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.

By Ben Reiff September 11, 2024

Israeli security forces destroy a house in Silwan, February 14, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan

The government has accelerated plans to depopulate the East Jerusalem neighborhood, displacing dozens of Palestinian residents this year.

By Jessica Buxbaum September 6, 2024

Displaced Palestinians near the sea in Deir al-Balah, June 20, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe

Toxic waste, water-borne diseases, vast carbon emissions: Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay describes the myriad harms of Israel’s assault to the region’s ecosystems.

By Nathalie Rozanes September 5, 2024

Demonstrators outside the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

To sacrifice or free the hostages? Israeli protesters have chosen a side

Fearing for the remaining captives, the mass rallies that erupted across Israel were essentially demanding an end to the war — and Netanyahu knows it.

By Meron Rapoport September 4, 2024

People gather in memory of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem, September 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hersh is gone, sacrificed on the altar of Israel’s ‘total victory’

The parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin pleaded for their son’s release. But Netanyahu chose to cling to power and spill rivers of blood in Gaza instead.

By Orly Noy September 2, 2024

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya army base in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Israelis are frustrated, but do they want to stop the war? Not exactly’

Rallying around the flag, low trust in government, rebounding support for Netanyahu: Dahlia Scheindlin unpacks Israel’s peculiar public opinion trends.

By Dana Mills August 30, 2024

Israeli settlers, including one wearing a Hashomer Yosh T-shirt, block a main road around the Palestinian city of Nablus, occupied West Bank, April 10, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

What is Hashomer Yosh, the latest settler group hit with U.S. sanctions?

The government-backed organization, which brings volunteers to Israeli farming outposts, is a major driver of violent land theft in the West Bank.

By Georgia Gee August 30, 2024

Palestinians walk next to destroyed buildings and pools with stagnant water in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘The polio vaccine is effective, but delivering it requires a ceasefire’

With Palestinians in Gaza fearing a polio outbreak, health workers warn Israel’s ongoing military offensive will severely hamper efforts to counter it.

By Ruwaida Kamal Amer August 27, 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

An Israeli man carries a weapon as he walks through the market in Jerusalem, November 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israelis are fearing the storm. Palestinian citizens fear the calm that follows

After the genocide ends, Palestinians in Israel will have to live beside those who spent the past year cheering and participating in Gaza’s slaughter.

By Tamer Nafar August 22, 2024