Gaza

The youth of Gush Katif: The trauma, struggles of the once-teens of Israel's Gaza settlements

How a few teens dealt with the trauma of the expulsion, and where are they today?

AN IDF soldier uproots residents from their Neveh Dekalim home, Aug. 2005.
MEDIA CIRCUS on the IDF’s final day, at general headquarters in Khan Yunis, Sept. 11, 2005.

Gaza Disengagement twenty years later: A summer of changes and turbulence

HUNDREDS OF family, friends, and residents of the Golan Heights stand vigil to accompany the parents of IDF soldier Bezalel Yehoshua Masbaher – who died from his wounds after being injured in combat in Gaza – to his funeral at Mt. Herzl, July 27.

The price of war in Gaza is too high - opinion

Family representatives of the hostages are now demonstrating at Hostages Square under the banner “Never Again.”

Witkoff speaks to hostage families as they protest for hostage release, end of war


American Jewish Committee donates $25K to Gaza church damaged by Israeli strike

The donation is notable because it marks a rare if not unprecedented donation by a mainstream US Jewish group toward Gaza Palestinians while Israel is at war.

A view shows the damage at the Holy Family Church which was hit in an Israeli strike on Thursday, in Gaza City July 18, 2025.

Novelist David Grossman says Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, joining a rising chorus

Grossman, a longtime left-wing peace activist whose son was killed while serving in the Israeli army in Lebanon in 2006, has joined a growing number of Jews accusing Israel.

Israeli writer David Grossman attends the Letterature International Festival at Casa del Jazz on June 25, 2025 in Rome.

'Israel brought this on itself,' Anti-Zionist American Jew onboard Handala claims

American Jew Bob Suberi, one of the activists who was on the Handala Freedom Flotilla that was intercepted on its way to Gaza, blames Israel for the Gaza war.

Activists wash the deck of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship 'Handala' as they prepare to sail for Gaza in an attempt to break a long-standing Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Marsa, Malta August 16, 2024.

What are Israel’s choices in Gaza? The insanity of double standards and ignorance - opinion

Israel has several avenues to achieve its goals in the Gaza Strip, but fallacies about the war, strategy, tactics, geopolitics, and history may all stop that achievement.

Soldiers from IDF's 98th Division operating in the Gaza Strip, May 22, 2025.

Israelis begin to question morality of war in Gaza amid widespread starvation claims

GAZA AFFAIRS: Israelis have begun to question the morality of the country's war in Gaza after widespread claims that Gaza’s population faces crisis levels of food insecurity.

THERE ARE indications in Israel that the mood is shifting away from a robust embrace of the conflict. Here, mourners carry the body of a Palestinian, killed the night before in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City on Tuesday.

France to halt all Gaza evacuations, deport Gazan student over antisemitic, Nazi social media posts

The French Foreign Ministry is reviewing how evacuated student Nour Atallah was allowed into the country despite the antisemitic social media activity.

 France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot delivers a speech after a meeting with European partners to suggest a negotiated solution to end the conflict between Iran and Israel at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (Quai d'Orsay) in Paris, France, June 19, 2025.

Macron's push for Palestinian state will prove dangerous for Europe - opinion

US Secretary of State Macro Rubio called Macron’s decision “a slap in the face to the victims of October 7,” noting that “this reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda.

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a video conference with international partners to discuss humanitarian aid for financially-strapped Lebanon, in Paris on December 2.

Trump eyes bringing Azerbaijan, Central Asian nations into Abraham Accords, sources say

As part of the Abraham Accords, inked in 2020 and 2021 during Trump's first term in office, four Muslim-majority countries agreed to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel after US mediation.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed wave, after an Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House in 2020.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform

For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

Witkoff: GHF visit to allow Trump to craft a food, aid delivery plan to the people of Gaza

The visit follows Witkoff's arrival in Israel on Thursday and meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ceasefire negotiations with Hamas have stalled. 

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff visit the US-launched Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid site in Rafah, southern Gaza, August 1, 2025.

20 years later: Israel's lessons learned from Gush Katif and Tisha B’Av - opinion

No one could have known for certain back in 2005 what would happen next, how just two years later, Hamas would violently seize control of Gaza and that it would lead to the October 7 massacre.

SECURITY FORCES are on the scene as residents of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif resist eviction in August 2005. The writer asks: Knowing what we know now, shouldn’t we, at the very least, acknowledge the possibility that some of those protesters were right?