To increase pressure on Hamas, Israel halted the delivery of aid and humanitarian supplies into Gaza earlier this month. That decision exacerbated hardships faced by civilians in the shattered enclave ...

PAUL B. STARES is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he also directs the Center for Preventive Action.

But most of the Israeli cabinet and the new IDF chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, favour a much longer ground campaign in Gaza, which would involve sending entire armoured divisions back ...

As if this region hasn’t been explosive enough since the promise of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, Donald Trump ...