Middle Orient

Un grand nombre de soldats israéliens ont été tués à Beit Hanoun alors que plus loin, à Sdérot les sirènes d’alarme ont retenti suite à l’explosion d’un drone israélien abattu par le Hezbollah. Ce samedi 18 novembre, les combattants de la Résistance palestinienne ont tué de nombreux soldats israéliens dans …

While the southern port city of Eilat has largely been quiet since the beginning of the war, being 175 miles away from the Gaza strip, events in recent days seemed to have disturbed the serene and laid back nature of Israel’s most prominent vacation spot, courtesy of none other than …

For weeks, Israel used its claims that the Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest, was being used as a military command center to justify a relentless bombardment of the hospital that killed dozens of people and prevented the wounded from entering or leaving, in a series of flagrant war crimes. Admitting that …

Past peace processes in Israel and Palestine failed to offer long-term solutions to the conflict, but they showed what makes negotiations work. In the latest round of hostilities in Gaza, key Arab governments are uniquely positioned to leverage relationships with all parties to lay out the conditions that could broker …

In their support for Israel’s brutal bombardment in Gaza, Western powers and media have shown their true colours of hypocrisy and racism. The reverberations will be felt across the Arab and Muslim world, writes Khaled Al Hroub. “I have become ashamed before my students whom I have taught, over decades, …

Analysis: Syria has already witnessed surging violence this year, but Israel’s war on Gaza is threatening to bring further instability to the country. On 31 October, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen warned that the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip had already spilt over to Syria. Pedersen justified …

After a month of Israel’s indiscriminate war on besieged Gaza, Ahmed Saleh asks why Palestinians are stripped of their humanity, reflects on seven decades of colonisation and occupation, and mourns his friends taken too soon. This is a scathing elegy for Gaza. One where there is no room left to …

As war rages in Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to escalate, causing grievous harm to civilians and threatening stability across the Middle East. Crisis Group experts offer a 360-degree view of how various capitals in the region view this crisis and their own interests therein. The 7 October attack by …

As the conflict in the territory continues, getting to know more about likely trajectories has become a necessity. A day after the horrific attacks of October 7, I was not only shocked but also profoundly unsure about what would happen next. Some things were already clear. Immediately, the political actors …

Michael Rose, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, calls for the U.S. to deploy one or both U.S. Navy hospital ships to the coast of Gaza to treat Palestinian children ages 15 and under. I always welcome any attempt at a constructive …