Gaza

COGAT refutes claims made by Doctors Without Borders of Gaza water crisis

MSF had released a video on social media claiming that if it's forced to cease activities in Gaza, then “hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water.”

 Trucks are seen carrying aid and fuel into the Gaza Strip via COGAT and the Israeli Navy, May 26, 2024
Hamas officials, Khalil Al-Hayya and Osama Hamdan, attend a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, November 21, 2023.

Hamas leader denies killing civilians on Oct 7 on Norwegian state TV, receives little pushback

Homes in kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, which were burned and runied during the October 7 massacre, August 7, 2025.

State comptroller urges government to fix ‘no-delay’ failures rebuilding Gaza border communities

IDF soldiers on Israel's border with Syria, September 9, 2025.

WATCH: IDF troops locate, dismantle weapons storage facility in southern Syria


Zionism's narrow definition hurts American Jews' connection to Israel - opinion

Most Jews have little trouble simultaneously affirming care and concern for Israel and Israelis and opposing Israeli policies, including the extended war in Gaza.

American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

Court bars Gazan child in West Bank from entering Israel for life-saving treatment

The court decision noted that the child's doctors in Ramallah had been in contact with Tel Hashomer Hospital, whose practitioners expressed willingness to treat the child. 

Displaced Palestinians seen around their tents in the Bureij area of the central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2026.

Over 65,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since October ceasefire, COGAT says

Delivered aid included tents and tarps, humanitarian staff, and the evacuation of Gazans in need of medical treatment and those with dual citizenship.

Humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on February 4, 2026.

Lack of vetting nearly let alleged Hamas-linked Palestinian businessman build Jerusalem hotel

The Jerusalem District Committee had been set to meet on Monday as part of the approval process for Bashar al-Masri’s hotel, after the plan was approved by a local committee before the war.

 Palestinian businessman Bashar Masri.

IDF moves to quell reservist backlash over service cuts tied to post-war budget deal

Broadly speaking, the changes surround the agreement between the IDF and the Finance Ministry to reduce the number of standing reservists on duty on any given day from 60,000 to 40,000.

Reservists train during a battalion wide exercise in the Golan Heights.

'October 7 could have been prevented': Lapid accuses Netanyahu of working to cover up failures

The accusation came in response to Netanyahu’s testimony to State Comptroller Matanyahu Engelman, in which the prime minister defended his actions during and prior to the attack.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaking at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.

Turkey deepens role in Gaza’s 'Day After' through contacts with Hamas

An examination of the sequence of events and official statements indicates that Turkey is working to advance a framework in which Hamas would be recognized in any future Palestinian arrangement.

L to R: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, former head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh, July 26, 2023.

Hamas leader's awkward on-air slip: 'Free Israel, with God’s help'

The clip, taken from Khaled Mashaal’s appearance at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Sunday, shows him wrapping up a point, then delivering what viewers online are calling a verbal misfire.

 Senior Hamas figure Khaled Mashal accidentally says “To a free Israel, with God’s help” at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on February 8, 2026.

Mashaal to Al Jazeera Forum: Hamas disarming risks making Gazans ‘easy victims to be eliminated'

“In the context that our people are still under occupation, talking about disarmament is an attempt to make our people an easy victim to be eliminated," Hamas’s political leader, Mashaal, said.

HAMAS TERRORIST KHALED MASHAAL speaks during an interview in Doha.

Zini affair highlights the security and political costs of Gaza smuggling - opinion

Cigarette smuggling into Gaza becomes a national scandal as family ties, security doctrine, and politics collide.

Bezalel Zini, brother of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief David Zini, suspected of smuggling cigarettes into Gaza, February 3, 2026.