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A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
Israel is fighting a broad coalition of armed Palestinian militias in Gaza − and then there’s Hezbollah, just across the border in Lebanon.
The diversity of Israel’s Jewish population has been a source of tensions, but also strength, over the decades.
A philosopher weighs up the legal and moral arguments on both sides of the conflict.
Aid workers consistently face a host of moral challenges and often have to make difficult choices. Organizations need to be aware of the mental impact on their staff and provide support.
More than 450 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the year, the most since 2005.
Qatar has built goodwill – and business connections – around the world in recent decades.
Urban warfare and the extensive tunnel network in Gaza benefit Hamas and pose a major challenge to the Israeli military.
The Netanyahu government is pressuring Israel’s most prominent left-leaning newspaper over its coverage of the war in Gaza.
This month, an image of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier raising the rainbow flag in Gaza went viral. But the photo obscures nuance, context and history.
Four days is not nearly long enough to meet the needs of Gaza’s 2.2 million desperate inhabitants.
Hamas rules Gaza with repression and violence and polls show that it does not have the support of ordinary Palestinians.
High levels of diarrhea, scabies and respiratory infections have been reported as bombing campaign progresses – and children are the most vulnerable.
Calls for a cease-fire in Gaza are driven by humanitarian compassion and principles. But cease-fires are also technically complicated military and political ventures.
While the war in Gaza has riveted public attention, the simultaneous escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank is not disconnected from the violence in Gaza.
In my analysis of 12,000 Telegram comments posted after the October 7 Hamas attack, I found commenters talking about the two wars as part of the same antisemitic plots.
Israel claims to have found a Hamas underground command and control system in the al-Shifa medical complex.
The Taliban and the Islamic State group are among the militant groups that have been known to use civilians as human shields in the past, in order to try to shift their opponents’ war calculations.
The dismissal of Palestinians as “barbaric” or somehow less human is rooted in a long history of colonizing narratives, including how the land and people were first viewed as “uncivilized.”
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