A shell that appears to be white phosphorus from Israeli artillery explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese border village with Israel, on October 15.
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The use of such incendiary devices is only legal under very specific circumstances. A careful examination of the evidence is now required.
Display monitors show the result of voting at the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 12, 2023, in favour of a resolution calling on Israel to uphold legal and humanitarian obligations in its war with Hamas.
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In war time, the type of conflict determines what formal rules of war apply. But how to determine the nature of the conflict?
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Israel is effectively fighting a war on two fronts.
President Biden has said Israel is losing international support.
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Around 50% of those under 30 supported Biden’s policy on Israel, a higher number than other age groups.
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The leaders called on Israel to ‘respect international humanitarian law’, and said Hamas has no place in the future governance of Gaza.
Israeli soldiers take positions near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Dec. 11, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
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The best — or least bad — solution to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involves setting up a transitional administration in Gaza. Here’s how it could work.
The golden Dome of the Rock Islamic shrine, a holy site for Muslims, stands close to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, in an aerial view of Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Conflicts over the Alsace-Lorraine region and Northern Ireland offer examples of how territory is often at the center of a conflict − and what is necessary to pave the path to peace.
A memorial is left inside a bomb shelter near the Supernova music festival, where eyewitnesses reported Hamas members gang-raping and killing women.
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Sexual violence can be used as a weapon of war. Hamas’ use of sexual violence was likely meant to show its power over Israeli women and girls and to humiliate Israeli men and Israel’s military.
Palestinians fleeing the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 10, 2023.
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Mass forced movement of people has been used in conflicts to serve three goals: population control, territorial expansion and as a sorting mechanism. All three could be in play in Gaza.
Technology is changing how wars are fought, but not the reasons for them.
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Advances in technology are deployed in war, changing the ways that wars are both fought and communicated.
Many Israelis blame their government for intelligence failures before October 7.
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Israelis are still reeling after October 7 and many feel that the international community has turned against them.
As Israel’s assault moves further south, refugees are running out of safe spaces.
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Gaza is being systematically razed to the ground as the IDF continues its assault.
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The Houthis are not mere Iranian proxies in the war. Their support for the Palestinians is also aimed at garnering domestic and international support for the group’s position in Yemen.
Sarah Jama at the opening of her Hamilton Centre constituency office, Nov. 14, 2023. Jama opened the office as an Independent MPP after the Ontario NDP kicked her out of caucus for posting a statement in support of Palestinians.
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Censure might occasionally be necessary to preserve the integrity of a parliament, but using it to punish members for their personal views threatens the foundations of democracy.
Free: a minibus carrying Israeli hostages arrives at a hospital in Ramat Gan in Israel, November 26.
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Most of the hostages and prisoners being exchanged have been women or children.
Two people use a Palestinian keffiyeh to show their support during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington on Nov. 4, 2023.
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The keffiyeh’s prominence soared in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, adopted and popularized the garment.
The scene in the Bureij refugee camp following an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2023.
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Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
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A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
Militant: Hamas is believed to have teamed up with five different groups to launch its attacks on October 7.
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Israel is fighting a broad coalition of armed Palestinian militias in Gaza − and then there’s Hezbollah, just across the border in Lebanon.
People cheer as a vehicle carrying hostages released by Hamas drives toward an army base in Ofakim, southern Israel, on Nov. 26, 2023.
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The diversity of Israel’s Jewish population has been a source of tensions, but also strength, over the decades.