Gaza

The staff writer Evan Osnos offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on President Biden’s handling of world crises—from Gaza and Ukraine to China’s designs on Taiwan.

President Biden’s long-serving Secretary of State on the crisis in Gaza, and his reason for optimism about lasting peace in the region.

In Israel, grief and frustration about a long, brutal war is mixed with joy that some hostages may soon return.

The Prime Minister’s domestic popularity has rebounded to pre-October 7th levels, despite his refusal to prioritize a hostage deal in Gaza.

In October, 2023, I could not imagine anything worse than the destruction in Jabalia refugee camp. But what is happening now outstrips anything I saw there.

The historian discusses events that have weakened supposed allies of the Palestinians, and the idea of settler colonialism that has taken hold on the left. Critic Adam Kirsch responds.

As “imminent” famine looms, Israel’s legislature has voted to ban the main U.N. relief agency for Palestinians.

Even many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s harshest critics have supported the military campaign in Gaza. “We are seeing a different war than you are seeing,” the writer Yossi Klein Halevi says.

The Hamas leader who planned the October 7th attack is dead. What will be the effect on Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East?

“The impulse to be antiwar is a very understandable one,” the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz says. “It does not cut easily within our political spectrum.”

The Prime Minister sought to justify his broadening of the war—from Gaza to Beirut—with a Biblical reference at the United Nations.

I no longer recognize many parts of my homeland. Only my memories of them remain.

In “The Message,” Coates urges young writers to aspire to “nothing less than doing their part to save the world,” but his latest work reveals the limits of his own advice.

What does the Biden Administration want Netanyahu to do in Lebanon and Gaza?

A co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement tells the staff writer Andrew Marantz why Muslim voters in Michigan are turning in droves to Jill Stein—and Donald Trump.

Some progressives in Michigan say that they won’t support Kamala Harris unless she changes her policy on Israel. Will their tactics persuade her, or risk throwing the election to Trump?

This year, I learned the difference between a traveller and a refugee.

What is the Philadelphi Corridor, and why is Netanyahu at odds with his own security establishment over whether I.D.F. troops should remain there?

How the response to alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees reveals a wider ideological war within the I.D.F.

Rape is a shocking and sadly predictable feature of war. But the nature of the crime makes it difficult to document and, consequently, to prosecute.