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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Susan B. Glasser
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.
By Ruth Margalit
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.
By Annie Hylton
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.
By Rania Abouzeid
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Ruth Margalit
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.
By Robin Wright
A Reporter at Large
Notes from Underground
The life of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
By David Remnick
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.
By David Remnick
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.
By Ruth Margalit