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Israeli soldiers take positions during a military operation in the town of Qalqiya, in the occupied West Bank, Dec. 4, 2025.

Katz warns PA against 'Oct. 7-style' attack as West Bank violence rises

After a West Bank stabbing of an Israeli settler, Defense Minister Israel Katz warns the Palestinian Authority against launching an “Oct. 7-style” assault.

A woman walks past a model of a Lora missile, Israel's long range artillery missile at the Israel defence stall at the international DefExpo 2008 defence fair, in New Delhi on February 16, 2008. India kicked off South Asia's largest defence fair, with hundreds of global weapons firms offering their latest hardware to the country's technology-hungry military. About 450 weapons companies from 30 countries are present at the four-day "DefExpo" in New Delhi, with several big-ticket announcements expected. AFP P

Analysis

LORA missile test reveals limits of Germany’s Gaza criticism of Israel

The German navy tested Israel’s LORA ballistic missile as Berlin considers acquiring the system, deepening defense ties with Israel despite criticism of the Gaza war.

Rina Bassist

By Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Israeli soldiers arrive in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which has faced escalating Israeli settler violence over the past month, on Aug. 29, 2026.

Analysis

As Israeli settler attacks mount, Trump avoids public pressure on Netanyahu

President Donald Trump has stayed silent amid a spate of settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank.

Elizabeth Hagedorn

By Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

Evan Vucci / Getty Images

Analysis

Why Palestinians see success of Trump talks as contingent on Israeli elections

Some view the channel to Jared Kushner as necessary for reaching a political settlement, but others see a US effort to secure Palestinian acquiescence to Trump’s Gaza plans.

Mohammed Najib

By Mohammed Najib

Latest News

Israel, Hamas bide their time as Gaza peace plan stalls

A boy walks carrying a table on his back past salvage workers scrapping the rubble of a building that was destroyed during Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza City on Aug. 16, 2026. — Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP via Getty Images

Ex-defense minister: Israel in ‘worst possible’ Gaza situation as Hamas gains strength

Palestinian militant group Hamas police officers stand guard as people attend the opening of the Fatah party's eighth general conference at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City on May 14, 2026.

Beatrice Farhat

Associate Editor (Lebanon)

In Beirut, reporting on regional news, culture, conflict

Daoud Kuttab

Palestine Columnist

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Abeer Ayyoub

In Istanbul, reporting on Palestine

Naima Morelli

In Rome, reporting on Middle East culture

Fatima AbdulKarim

In Ramallah, reporting on the West Bank

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech remotely at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly meeting at UN headquarters, New York, Sept. 24, 2021.

Abbas says PLO will not recognize pre-1967 borders unless Israel withdraws

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, amid declining popularity, gave Israel one year to withdraw from the occupied territories along the 1967 border, but appears to intensify meetings with Israelis in a bid to move the peace process forward.

Al-Bahr Elna, a rest house in the Gaza Strip.

Gazans open eco-friendly rest house on the beach

A group of artists in Gaza established the first eco-friendly rest house on the enclave’s beach, where people can sit and enjoy the free services in exchange for food leftovers.

MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images

Sudan confiscates Hamas assets

Sudanese authorities have seized what they say are Hamas assets in the country, which for years has been considered its main backer.

Abbas addresses UN

Hamas rips into Abbas after UN speech

Hamas relations with the Palestinian Authority are getting worse, and a recent poll reveals that 78% of Palestinians want Mahmoud Abbas to resign as president.

Supporters of the Palestinian Fatah movement shout slogans during a rally marking the tenth anniversary of late Palestinian leader and founder of the movement Yasser Arafat in front of Al-Azhar University, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Nov. 11, 2014.

Hamas-Fatah dispute over wearing keffiyeh spills over to Gaza university

Hamas-affiliated police forces assaulted students wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh on the Al-Azhar University campus in the Gaza Strip, causing uproar among the Fatah movement.

An employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees measures the body temperature of a girl as people arrive to receive the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at UNRWA's clinic in Rafah camp, southern Gaza Strip, March 3, 2021.

Gaza's children ravaged by third wave of COVID-19 pandemic

Children in the Gaza Strip are the latest victims of vaccine scarcity during the coronavirus pandemic.

Nourhan Manougian (R), the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem, makes his way to the Church of the Nativity during the Epiphany celebrations, Bethlehem, West Bank, Jan. 18, 2020.

Palestinians challenge Armenian Patriarchate over Jerusalem land lease

The Armenian Patriarch’s decision to lease property to an Australian real estate developer has led to a crisis in Palestinian-Armenian ties in Jerusalem

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As reconstruction nears, Gaza fears donors won’t deliver on promises

The Ministry of Public Works and Housing in the Gaza Strip announced that the reconstruction process will kick off early next month, but fears remain that donor countries won't deliver on their promises.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech remotely at the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 24, 2021 in New York City.

Abbas warns Palestinian Authority will no longer recognize Israel

Abbas' threat comes as the Biden administration shows little appetite for taking on the prospect of peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

A Palestinian woman and her child stand next to a window of an aid distribution centre run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City, on Sept. 16, 2021.

Gaza factions increase calls to revoke US-UNRWA agreement

Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip organized a series of protests to demand cancellation of the framework agreement signed between UNRWA and the US to resume US funding.

Palestinian sibling activists Mona (R) and Mohammed (C) al-Kurd wait at the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem as it convenes to rule on Palestinian evictions in east Jerusalem, on Aug. 2, 2021.

Activist twins say Time recognition shows 'centrality of Palestinian cause'

The parents of Muna and Mohammed say the twins represent many other residents of Sheikh Jarrah who are fighting to defend their homes.

Arab-Israelis gather outside the Gilboa prison in northern Israel on Sept. 18, 2021, to express their support of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Hamas says recaptured jailbreakers must be part of swap deal

Hamas' military wing has stated that the six prisoners recaptured after a prison break must be returned in any swap deal.