Nearly 100 Palestinians have been killed this week in an ongoing Israeli offensive aimed at stopping rocket fire from Hamas. Hamas leaders promised a "long battle" with Israel on Friday: "We have prepared ourselves for a very long battle, not for a week or 10 days, as some have said, but for many long weeks," the…
At least 80 Palestinians have been killed since Tuesday in an Israeli offensive aimed at stopping rocket fire from Hamas, which fired rockets deep into Israel last night. And situation shows no sign of letting up: Haaretz reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't have an exit strategy.
Since Tuesday, Israel's offensive on Gaza has killed 41 Palestinians, including eight children. And the operation, aimed at stopping Hamas' recent barrage of rocket attacks, shows no sign of letting up. The New York Times reports that Israel is calling up as many as 40,000 reservists to "free them for a possible…
Israel has launched an offensive from air and sea aimed at Hamas militants in Gaza. Palestinian officials say these military strikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians so far, including two children. This could be a long-term offensive, and the Israeli government is authorized to deploy 40,000 more troops.
Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed nine Hamas militants early Monday morning. Later Monday, Hamas promised Israel "will pay a tremendous price" for the strikes. The attacks in part targeted rocket launchers, after Hamas militants in Gaza fired rockets into Israel over the weekend.
Israeli police have arrested six suspects in connection to the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped from his home last week in East Jerusalem and is believed to have been beaten and then burned to death. Unnamed officials told the Washington Post that the suspects have "nationalistic" views,…
The bodies of the three Israeli teens kidnapped earlier this month were found just north of the Palestinian city of Hebron. Israeli security forces, who have been looking for the teens in the West Bank, have sealed off the area.
And on the 18th day, explanatory journalism provided us all with "Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine." Whew! Thank goodness that's settled. Wait, there's no explainer card for "Why isn't that 'Palestine-Israel?'"
[Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus gather to await a food distribution from the United Nations Relief and Work Agency in January. Image via UNRWA Archives.]
MA'ALEH ADUMIM, WEST BANK – Scarlett Johansson's decision to part ways with international anti-poverty outfit Oxfam so she can keep her endorsement deal with Israeli fizz-maker SodaStream has intensified the global controversy over businesses that operate in the occupied Palestinian territories. But the Palestinian…
Bombshell actress and Obama campaigner Scarlett Johansson surprised plenty of people today by parting with the social justice charity Oxfam over her decision to star in a series of ads promoting Sodastream, an Israel-based company. What the hell happened? Here's everything you need to know.
[A Palestinian man rides a horse on a Gaza beach Saturday evening as the sun sets in Gaza City. Image by Hatem Moussa via AP]
After a push by Secretary of State John Kerry, Israel and Palestine have agreed to resume peace negotiations for the first time in three years.
Alan Dershowitz thinks Albert Einstein Award-winning physicist Stephen Hawking is an "ignoramus." Guess why.
President Obama arrived in Israel today on his first state trip to the country and the first leg of his tour of the Middle East. He is expected to discuss the crisis in Syria and Iran's disputed nuclear program with the leaders of Israel. He also plans to go to the West Bank on Thursday to meet with Palestinian…
Following complaints by West Bank settlers that Palestinians posed a "security risk" to fellow bus riders, the Afikim bus company will begin running separate buses for settlers and Palestinians traveling into the State of Israel, beginning this Monday morning. The bus plan has been in the works since last fall.…
The Instagram account of an Israeli soldier has been thoroughly scrubbed after a photo posted recently generated significant criticism both from the soldier's followers and from the Internet writ large.
Alan Dershowitz, O.J. Simpson's lawyer and a man who spent the middle of the last decade spit-shining the idea of institutionalized American torture, would like us to have a moral debate.
The U.N. General Assembly has voted to grant Palestine "non-member observer state" status. The U.S. and Israel opposed.
Silvan Shalom, the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, just had his Facebook and Twitter accounts completely compromised by a group that calls themselves the ZCompany Hacking Crew.
