After 470 days of death, a tentative cease-fire began on Sunday in Gaza. But Palestinians could not be sure that the war had ...

Thirty-three people will be released during the first 6-week phase, including female soldiers and civilians, children and men ...

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began ...

The second phase of the ceasefire still needs to be worked out, and the deal doesn’t begin to address long-term questions ...

WE do injustice to Gaza when we look for its poems, so let us not disfigure Gaza’s beauty,” says the Palestinian poet Mahmoud ...

The world has been watching the genocide underway in Gaza, already reeling from the illegal land, air and naval blockade imposed by Israel since 2007. After the shocking events of October 7, 2023, ...

The ceasefire agreement, reached with Hamas, provides for the swap of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and a surge ...

Zeeva Bukai wrote The Anatomy of Exile from the perspective of a familiar literary figure: the anxious Jewish mother. Only in this novel about a Mizrahi Israeli family moving to America, the main ...

At a press conference in the Qatari capital, Doha, on 15 January, the emirate’s premier and foreign minister, Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman al-Thani, announced that Israel and the Palestinian ...

A few weeks ago a senior executive at one of Australia’s great sandstone universities, a person I have known for several ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached. The announcement early on Friday came a day after Netanyahu’s office ...

What began as a battle between Israel and Hamas morphed into a much wider regional conflict that has reshaped much of the ...