25 October 2023 David Hearst Delayed ground invasion part of campaign to keep element of surprise in multi-pronged attack, source tells Middle East Eye Palestinian groups expect Israel to flood Hamas tunnels with a type of nerve gas or chemical weapon under the surveillance of US Delta Force commandos as …

This article was published in the NY Times on October 15, 2023, by Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman According to three senior officers, the goal is to wipe out the top political and military hierarchy of Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza. To gather information about Israel’s planned invasion and the …

16 oct 2023 The “Tel Aviv” stock exchange plunged by 2.3 percent on Sunday as a result of the deteriorating security situation the entity is witnessing following the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7. During the past week, the exchange market fell by 7 percent as investors …

14 oct 2023 Yuval Noah Harari Israel has just experienced the worst day in its history. More Israeli civilians have been slaughtered in a single day than all the civilians and soldiers Israel lost in the 1956 Sinai war, the 1967 six-day war and the 2006 second Lebanon war combined. …

12 oct 2023 A coalition of 34 Harvard University student organisations has issued a pro-Palestinian statement in reaction to the continuing Israel-Gaza war, prompting outrage from the university’s prominent alumni. The students of the most influential university in United States politics said in the statement published on Monday that they “hold the …

11 oct 2023 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that creating a Palestinian state was the “most reliable” solution for peace in Israel and that fighting alone would not ensure security. Lavrov spoke on Monday during a news conference with the head of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, …

11 Oct 2023 The Hamas assault on the Erez crossing, the looming symbol of Israel’s security infrastructure at the far northern end of the Gaza Strip, was indicative of what would come at other key locations. A maze of rooms, populated with cameras and hi-tech scanners, double “tiger trap” doors …

10 oct 2023 Jehad Abusalim Amidst the cacophony of protests against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul, one voice remained conspicuously subdued — that of the Palestinians. For months, thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets in a fervent demonstration against the actions of their government, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s …

7 oct 2023 How do the weapons used by Hamas and PIJ in 2021 compare to those used during the 2014 conflict with Israel? Have the rockets changed in terms of range, precision or payload? The Palestinian groups have unveiled a few new rocket systems, but none of them qualified …

7 oct 2023 136 Israelis injured, 9 clinically dead and 35 soldiers taken hostage. Hamas-backed armed men stormed infiltrated the borders of Israel and launched a massive attack on the Jewish nation. We spoke to the Editor, Arab Gazette to get an insight into the Palestinian view of the recent …