Gaza war

Hostage families call for nationwide shutdown next week, Smotrich threatens elections over Gaza

COGAT says 1,900 aid trucks collected, distributed in Gaza over past week • Netanyahu to give press conference on Sunday evening • IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorist in Lebanon

Crowds gather at Hostage Square in support of hostage families calling for an immediate deal to release the Gaza captives, August 9, 2025.
 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

Blaming October 7 on Gaza disengagement is the latest far-right effort to rewrite history - opinion

PALESTINIANS WHO fled Rafah, after the IDF began evacuating civilians ahead of a threatened assault, travel in Khan Yunis in 2024.

The suffering in Gaza from the war is inevitable - opinion

A VIDEO released of hostage Rom Braslavski.

Appeasement has a price, and the hostages in Gaza are paying for it - opinion


A historic opportunity: The case for a two-state solution in the wake of Gaza war – opinion

Israel and Palestine are running out of options beyond a two-state solution.

FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER Jean-Noel Barrot speaks alongside Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, fellow co-chair of a UN conference on an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution, last week.

Israelis demonstrate against widened Gaza op, Smotrich declares opposition to Netanyahu's Gaza plan

IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorist in Lebanon • Blast kills six Lebanese army troops in south • Witkoff reportedly to meet Qatari PM on Gaza • Haredim protest in Neveh Tzedek Prison 10.

Einav Zangauker at a demonstration for a hostage deal in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025.

Pyschological toll on IDF soldiers, Israel must not go unadressed - opinion

The traumas of October 7 and the ongoing war, the hyper-vigilance, and the endless stress will likely echo for at least two generations.

A HAMAS propaganda video shows 24-year-old Evyatar David, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, a haunting image of a starved hostage published by subhuman terrorists.

Strategic mess or strategic mask? Israel's government, military at odds over occupying Gaza

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Whether this is chaos by design or simply dysfunction on full display, talk over reoccupying Gaza have led to a critical inflection point.

COULD PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with his desire to militarily occupy all of Gaza, now be telegraphing his moves to the enemy, to the benefit of Hamas? Here, the PM speaks during an event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem last month.

Israel will not annex Gaza, Netanyahu tells reporters in meeting with Indian envoy

Netanyahu and Sing discussed expanding cooperation and further talked about security and economic issues, the Prime Minister's Office reported. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Indian ambassador J. P. Singh on August 7, 2025.

IDF will 'express our position without fear,' Zamir says on Gaza occupation debate

"The culture of debate is...a vital component of the IDF," Zamir said at a situational assessment before a critical security cabinet meeting.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said at a situational assessment, “we are dealing with matters of life and death.'

Do not ‘sacrifice our loved ones’: Hostage families set sail in protest of new Gaza occupation plan

The flotilla departed from Ashkelon’s port around 11 AM on Tuesday morning, and is expected to conclude the sailing around 2 PM the same day.

The flotilla filled with the family members of hostages left the Ashkelon Port with the intention of sailing to Gaza.

Indonesia to evacuate 2,000 wounded Gazans to island for treatment

The plan comes months after President Prabowo Subianto's offer to shelter wounded Palestinians drew criticism for seeming too close to Trump's suggestion of permanently moving Palestinians out of

Palestinians walk to collect aid supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025

Gaza crisis 'looks very much' like genocide, senior EU official says

"If it is not genocide, it looks very much like the definition used to express its meaning," Teresa Ribera, the European Commission's second-highest ranking official, said.

Teresa Ribera, the European Union's competition commissioner, speaks during an interview with Reuters in London, Britain, February 17, 2025.

Israel must defeat Hamas via strategic erosion, isolation, ex-senior Shin Bet official says

Hamas's collapse will not be accomplished through submission, but rather through strategic erosion and separation from the population, Moshe Fuzaylov said.

An Israeli APC manoeuvres next to other military vehicles on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, July 16, 2025.

Huckabee announces plan to expand aid distribution operations in Gaza

The US plans to finance the new aid distribution centers, which will expand from the current four to a total of 16 new points to pick up aid.

 Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC.