Many people in Gaza are reliant on the United Nations and other international aid groups to meet their basic needs, like food and medical care. A scholar of peace and conflict economics explains why.
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A special forces officer explains why an overreliance on intelligence is a recipe for disaster.
The group was founded in 1987 and since seizing control of Gaza in 2007 have clashed with Israeli government frequently.
Legitimacy is an essential part of comprehending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its intractable nature.
Israel’s intelligence capacities are considered some of the best in the world – but unlike the US, it does not have a central organization coordinating all intelligence.
To understand what is currently happening in Israel and Palestine, it is essential to understand the characteristics and motivations of a terrorist organisation like Hamas.
Deprived of viable political alternatives, Gaza residents have increasingly looked to violence as their only salvation from an open air prison.
Is the much-heralded Israel-Saudi peace deal now dead? And how is Iran likely to respond? An expert in Middle Eastern politics explains
A major crisis abroad may exacerbate internal divisions within one of the US’s major political parties.
An estimated 150 hostages were taken by Hamas in Israel and brought back to Gaza. The government of Israel faces tough choices in dealing with the crisis.
The Israeli hostages in Gaza are living a nightmare. They’re likely to remain displaced, under duress and will be the human shields of this war.
Support for the Palestinian cause has remained a steadfast element of South African foreign policy since the ANC came into power in 1994.
Rarely has been the prospect of peace between Israelis and Palestinians seem so remote.
The incursion into Israel was textbook terrorism and the response appears to be exactly as Hamas and its backers will have hoped.
What we published across the network in the days after war reignited in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Hamas named its action ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’, which emphasises what it sees as Israeli acts of desecration of a holy Islamic site in Jerusalem.
The bloody ground attacks by Hamas in Israel caused the biggest shock. But the unprecedented scale of rocketry and successful use of armed drones contributed to the surprise.
Failings leading up to the Arab-Israeli War of 50 years ago cost the then Israeli prime minister their job. Could history repeat?
The Palestinian fighters who launched deadly attacks into Israel on Oct. 7 are not Iranian puppets – but they are doing the work Iran wants done.
Israelis will consider it critically important to reclaim their country’s military deterrence capabilities against Hamas, which may necessitate a military takeover of Gaza.
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Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Relations at UCL | Associate Fellow on the Middle East at Chatham House, UCL
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Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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