The Israeli army says it is ready for the next stage of its war on the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops ahead of its ground invasion of Gaza. But Hamas is likely to be ready for them. Tens of thousands of fighters have had time to prepare traps and … Read more
Thousands of Palestinians have begun to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli military called for all civilians in the northern half of the besieged enclave to relocate south, as it amassed tanks for an expected ground assault. The United Nations warned on Friday that the order demanding the relocation of 1.1 … Read more
Gaza interior ministry says the number of dead may rise as rescue workers search through mounds of rubble for bodies. Gaza’s interior ministry says an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in a refugee camp has killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens of others. The Israeli military on Thursday bombarded the centre of … Read more
Has something fundamentally changed in the level of US, international involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Decades of misguided strategy have wreaked havoc on the region, even before Hamas’s recent attack on Israel and the Israeli response in Gaza, according to Harvard University Professor Stephen Walt. Global powers have allowed the status quo to fester. Washington … Read more