These Are the Major Obstacles to Trump’s Gaza Plan
President Trump’s brazen proposal to move all Palestinians out of Gaza and make it a U.S. territory sent shock waves around the world, where it was welcomed by Trump loyalists…
Who Will Govern Postwar Gaza? Four Competing Models Are Emerging.
Through nearly 16 months of war in Gaza, politicians and analysts debated competing proposals for the territory’s postwar governance, but no clear direction emerged while the fighting continued. Now, as…
Trump Invites Netanyahu to White House as U.S. Envoy Heads to Israel
President Trump’s Middle East envoy is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu. The visit by the envoy, Steven…
Gaza and Lebanon Truces Are Fragile, but All Sides May Keep Them Going
The cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon will most likely hold for now, despite being tested to their limits over the weekend, because all sides want to avoid full-scale fighting at…
Hamas Takes Charge in Gaza After 15 Months of War
The morning the cease-fire in Gaza went into effect, masked members of Hamas’s military wing drove through the streets of Gaza in clean, white pickups, carrying Hamas flags and automatic…
Why Is Israel Targeting Jenin, West Bank?
In the days since a cease-fire agreement took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has turned its attention to a Palestinian city about 75 miles northeast of the enclave —…
Israel Keeps Up Raids in West Bank, Arresting 25, Palestinian Reports Say
Israel’s military continued what it called a new counterterrorism operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday, arresting at least 25 people over the last day, Palestinian news media reported.…
As Truce Takes Hold, Gazans and Israelis Express Elation Tinged With Doubt
As a truce took hold on Sunday in Gaza, potentially ending the longest and deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two men used the same metaphor to describe…