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Conflict in Gaza involving Israel and Hamas
The short answer: President Trump has claimed repeatedly to have “ended” six, seven or eight wars, but independent reporting and fact-checkers conclude that his count is exaggerated and imprecise — so...
There is no publicly reported International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Donald Trump as of the sources available; instead, the recent clash centers on U.S. retaliation against the ICC and warnin...
President Biden can be credibly credited with ending one major, long-running U.S. combat engagement: the American combat mission in Afghanistan, concluded with the August 2021 withdrawal from that cou...
Lindsey Graham has been a persistent, high-profile champion of Israel for decades, moving from legislative, institutional backing to increasingly vocal, interventionist and sometimes transactional pre...
Independent inquiries, major human-rights NGOs and the ’s prosecutor have concluded there is credible evidence that i operations in may amount to , crimes against humanity—and several UN-appointed bod...
exerts both direct and indirect pressure on journalism in : reporters say they face intimidation, physical assaults, and area restrictions from Hamas-affiliated security forces, and analysts document ...
Most available public-opinion data and electoral history indicate that Hamas enjoys substantial but not majority-consensual political support in Gaza: polls and past elections show large pluralities o...
The available reporting shows a contested and uneven evidentiary record: Israeli authorities released videos and claimed tunnels and weapon caches beneath several Gaza hospitals, and later reporting a...
Available investigative and academic reporting attributes the October 7/8 Hamas assault to a cascade of intelligence and judgment failures — missed warnings, dismissed signals, and institutional assum...
President Trump has repeatedly claimed he “ended” multiple wars during his second term, at times saying six, seven or eight conflicts were resolved under his leadership, a tally that fact-checkers and...
The Heritage Foundation, as voiced by its newly appointed Jerusalem-based senior research fellow Eugene Kontorovich, rejects the two-state solution as viable, framing it as a dangerous interim that wo...
Yes — Palestinians have staged public anti‑Hamas protests in Gaza and elsewhere in the Palestinian territories during 2023–2025, with multiple credible outlets documenting crowds chanting against Hama...
On 7 October 2023 international media initially foregrounded the large number of Israeli deaths — particularly civilian victims of the — while subsequent coverage shifted to the mass in Gaza caused by...
The deaths of civilians in have been caused by an interplay of factors in which ’s documented practice of operating in and near populated areas and sometimes using civilian infrastructure for military...
Multiple official and media reports say that beyond organized fighters, non-combatants from entered on — with Israeli military assessments explicitly counting several thousand people who were not iden...
The – war began with ’s surprise attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and has since produced catastrophic human, infrastructural and political consequences across the region . By early 2026, official ta...
Short‑term brokered by outside powers have a mixed track record: some become durable armistices monitored for decades while many collapse within hours or days, especially in fragmented or territoriall...
The name “” in reporting appears to refer to at least two different figures and conflations are common: one is , a -born comedian, activist and blogger killed in an Israeli strike in October 2023, and...
Verified reporting and human-rights investigations show that Hamas fighters have killed Palestinians in multiple contexts — during the October 7, 2023 attacks where Human Rights Watch verified deliber...
Clear and credible reporting shows multiple Palestinians and at least some Israeli soldiers saying troops have forced Gazans to act as human shields during operations in Gaza, while the Israel Defense...