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One Dutch study found that a third of ex-hostages were still suffering from PTSD nine years after the event.
Urban warfare and the extensive tunnel network in Gaza benefit Hamas and pose a major challenge to the Israeli military.
A cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas has seen the release of 58 hostages held in Gaza and 111 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
Hamas rules Gaza with repression and violence and polls show that it does not have the support of ordinary Palestinians.
With the Israel-Palestine conflict continuing, we asked a range of academics to nominate works that can help explain things.
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.
Israel claims to have found a Hamas underground command and control system in the al-Shifa medical complex.
A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
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.”
When you view photos and video through the fog of war, first ask yourself: Do I really know what I’m looking at?
The slogan has been attacked as ‘antisemitic’ and defended as a ‘call for freedom.’ Behind the controversy is decades of usage.
Without a ceasefire and a negotiated peace there will be no end to the killing of civilians in Gaza.
With so many questions left unanswered, there is a growing disconnect between Netanyahu and the Biden administration in the US.
A four-year survey of Palestinian school children in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem found hope and wellbeing already seriously declining. The situation now can only make it worse.
Turkey and Israel exchanged tit-for-tat diplomatic withdrawals over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pro-Hamas stance in the regional conflict. But behind that, the picture is more nuanced.
Though Hamas has the advantage of fighting on its territory, Israel has developed one of the most effective urban fighting militaries in the world.
Tunnel warfare tends to lessen any advantages a stronger, more advanced attacker might otherwise expect – and to favor the defenders hidden underground.
At present the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ruled out a ceasefire but may allow ‘little pauses’.
Top contributors
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Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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PhD Candidate at Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
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Professor of International Relations, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Lecturer in Post-war Recovery Studies, University of York
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
