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Israel-Hamas War

Q. & A.

Why the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Is Happening Now

After months of frustrating the Biden Administration, Benjamin Netanyahu seems poised to accept a deal on the eve of Trump’s return to the White House.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

“The Trump Effect”: On Deal-Making and Credit-Claiming in Trump 2.0

The once and future President is back to wielding leverage like a club, in the Middle East and on Capitol Hill.
The Lede

The Shock of a Gaza Ceasefire Deal

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

Could Other Countries Prosecute Soldiers in Gaza?

A growing legal movement has turned to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to take on war-crimes cases, regardless of where those crimes were committed or the nationality of the perpetrator.
Dispatch

The Price Lebanon Is Paying for the Hezbollah-Israel War

The group’s supporters remain steadfast in the face of widespread displacement and thousands of deaths.
Q. & A.

Why the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been

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

Why No Real Antiwar Movement Has Developed in Israel

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.
Q. & A.

What Was Possible Before October 7th, and What Remains Possible Now

How the war between Israel and Hamas has reshaped the region, and where the conflict goes from here.
Letter from Israel

A Year After October 7th, a Kibbutz Survives

In Be’eri, where more than a hundred people were killed and thirty taken captive, former residents are attempting to rebuild.
The Lede

What Israel’s Assassination of Hezbollah’s Leader Means for the Middle East

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, will be a political earthquake for the movement.
A Reporter at Large

Notes from Underground

The life of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
Letter from Israel

The Price of Netanyahu’s Ambition

Amid war with Hamas, a hostage crisis, the devastation of Gaza, and Israel’s splintering identity, the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s.
Dispatch

The Devastation of Be’eri

In one day, Hamas militants massacred, tortured, and abducted residents of a kibbutz, leaving their homes charred and their community in ruins.