This Month
Israel launches air strikes on Gaza
Israel has mounted air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the first since the end of 11 days of cross-border fighting last month, in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian territory.
- Melissa Cheok and Amy Teibel
Netanyahu’s reign over as Israel ushers in fragile coalition
The two-headed government approved by parliament on Sunday coalesced around a desire to remove Mr Netanyahu, the main defendant in a tangled corruption trial, from office.
- Yaacov Benmeleh
Israel security warns of violence as Netanyahu faces ouster
Some right-wing groups are angry at Naftali Bennett, head of a small ultra-nationalist party who is slated to replace the prime minister in a power-sharing pact.
- Maayan Lubell
Netanyahu attacks ‘dangerous’ coalition in fight for political life
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scorned as ‘dangerous’ a cross-partisan coalition cobbled together by his rivals to unseat him.
- Updated
- Jeffrey Heller
Israel: What just happened, and what’s next?
Israel’s journey to a possibly post-Netanyahu government began with its fourth election in two years.
- Ari Rabinovitch
- Analysis
- World politics
Israel’s Naftali Bennett: the kingmaker who is set to wear the crown
The energetic leader of the small, right-wing Yamina party has managed to leverage his modest electoral gain for a shot at the top job.
- Isabel Kershner
May
In Israel’s mixed towns, resentments erupted into violence
They lived side by side but after the worst communal violence in decades, it’s hard to see life ever returning to how it was.
- Miriam Berger and Loveday Morris
Blinken begins Middle East mission to bolster Gaza ceasefire
In tandem with the visit, Israeli authorities said they were allowing fuel, medicine and food earmarked for Gaza’s private sector to enter the territory for the first time since the latest violence broke out.
- Jeffrey Heller
Gaza struggles with twin crises of war injuries and coronavirus surge
Tens of thousands of people crowded into underground chambers, community centres and other places across Gaza seeking to avoid the Israeli airstrikes, creating opportunities for the virus to spread.
- Steve Hendrix and Hazem Balousha
Ceasefire in Gaza ‘not enough at all’: Palestinian minister
Riad Al-Malkin says the world must now tackle the difficult issues of Jerusalem’s future and achieving an independent Palestinian state.
- Edith Lederer
US looks to help rebuild Gaza, leverage Hamas over rockets
Joe Biden said Washington would work with the UN and other international stakeholders to provide rapid humanitarian assistance for Gaza and its reconstruction.
- Lara Jakes
Israeli-Palestinian conflict risks two-state agreement
Israel’s far-right groups have achieved dominance but the latest conflict could entrench a new era of Palestinian mobilisation.
- Ishaan Tharoor
Israel and Hamas agree Gaza truce
Israel and Hamas ceasefire has come into effect across the Gaza Strip border bringing a potentially tenuous halt to the fiercest fighting in years.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams
- Opinion
- Review
Netanyahu didn’t start the Gaza crisis, but it may keep in him power
The conflict with Gaza began long before Benjamin Netanyahu was born but the Israeli PM has squandered years of relative calm and prosperity to find a solution.
- Anshel Pfeffer
Biden and Netanyahu face rough early test of relationship
US President Joe Biden’s efforts to persuade Benjamin Netanyahu to halt military strikes against Hamas in Gaza are plunging the two leaders into a difficult early test.
- Aamer Madhani and Ellen Knickmeyer
Ceasefire still elusive in Israel-Gaza fighting
Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants fired more than 50 rockets into Israel on Wednesday, with no sign of a ceasefire soon.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller
Gaza violence shows few signs of slowing despite diplomatic efforts
Gaza health officials put the Palestinian death toll at 212, including 61 children and 36 women, since hostilities began last week. Ten people have been killed in Israel, including two children.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi and Rami Ayyub
Biden expresses support for ceasefire in Netanyahu call
US President Joe Biden expressed support for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers, but stopped short of demanding an immediate stop to airstrikes.
- Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Lee and Edith M.Lederer
- Opinion
- Opinion
Netanyahu’s master plan for Israel and Palestine has failed
If he clings to power it would show the Israeli PM remains a master political tactician but the upsurge of violence has undermined his claim to be a statesman.
- Gideon Rachman
Israel unleashes fresh barrage against Gaza targets
Residents of Gaza said the overnight barrage was the heaviest since the war began a week ago.
- Updated
- Fares Akram and Joseph Krauss
