Thousands of Israelis took part in a nationwide strike on Sunday to show solidarity with the families of hostages held in Gaza, urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and secure the captives’ release. Protesters waved Israeli flags and carried photos of hostages, while whistles, horns, and…
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in the past listed the three main threats facing Israel as “Iran, Iran and Iran.” He has largely staked his career on being Israel’s protector against Iranian nuclear ambitions, has openly confronted Tehran in recent months and is at war with Iran-backed militias around the region. Many Israelis were therefore…
The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Monday gave new details of the Israeli attack on its paramedics and other emergency responders in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 15 people last month, saying Israeli forces had targeted them in a “series of deliberate attacks.” Speaking at a news conference in the West Bank, Red…
Opinion polls indicate that a majority of Israelis favor a complete cessation of hostilities in Gaza to secure the release of up to 24 living hostages and the bodies of more than 30 others still in Gaza. But politically, Mr. Netanyahu depends on far-right members of his governing coalition who have been pressing for a…
The sounds of celebration replaced those of explosions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a fragile cease-fire came into effect after 470 days of war, allowing some hostages to return home to Israel and displaced Palestinians to search for what was left of their homes. Under the terms of the laboriously reached deal, fighting…
As a truce took hold on Sunday in Gaza, potentially ending the longest and deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two men used the same metaphor to describe how they felt. “The weight on my chest has lifted,” said Ziad Obeid, a Gazan civil servant displaced several times during the war. “We have…
A soldier by day, a father by night. Ari Krauss, a reservist in the Israeli military’s elite Golani Brigade, would explode underground tunnels in broad daylight. After the sun set, Ari would try to find the network to FaceTime his infant daughter. Ari and other reservists enlisted in the war would turn to the hill…