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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 New Yorker Radio Hour

Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?

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.
The Weekend Essay

The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian

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

The Radicalization of Israel’s Military

How the response to alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees reveals a wider ideological war within the I.D.F.
The New Yorker Radio Hour

Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict

The writer Nathan Thrall and the lawyer Raja Shehadeh on the occupation of the West Bank, and whether there can be any prospect for peace.
The Weekend Essay

What We Know About the Weaponization of Sexual Violence on October 7th

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.
Q. & A.

A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists

Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.
Cultural Comment

The Right Side of Now

Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about speaking—and feeling—in the present tense?
News Desk

What Does Benny Gantz Want for Israel?

The former general, who resigned from Israel’s wartime cabinet this month, seemingly has the ability to oppose Netanyahu while remaining above the political fray.
Photo Booth

The View from Palestinian America

In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure.
Daily Comment

Israel’s Politics of Protest

As demonstrations roil American campuses, the Israeli right is using them to its own ends.
Fault Lines

A Generation of Distrust

Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions.
Q. & A.

How Much Aid Is Actually Reaching Gazans?

The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it.
Daily Comment

How Columbia’s Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza

The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?
Q. & A.

How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei on providing counselling services to Palestinian children: “When relatives are killed, we try somehow to calm the child and then ask questions: What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do the day after tomorrow?”
The Weekend Essay

Is This Israel’s Forever War?

Foreign-policy analysts whose careers were shaped by the war on terror see troubling parallels.
Q. & A.

Inside Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza

The Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems and the dire cost to Palestinian civilians.
News Desk

What It Takes to Give Palestinians a Voice

A new poll conducted during war in Gaza and escalating tensions in the West Bank allows Palestinians to tell the world what they want for their future.
Q. & A.

The Brutal Conditions Facing Palestinian Prisoners

Since the attacks of October 7th, Israel has held thousands of people from Gaza and the West Bank in detention camps and prisons.
Dispatch

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza

More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?