Sidelined in the region, Europe is unlikely to have its voice heard amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas confrontation. Yet the EU’s economic leverage could prove useful in getting Israel and a new Palestinian leadership to negotiate in the longer term. With the horrendous attacks of its terrorist groups on Israeli territory …

During the past 24 hours, Israeli security forces carried out massive activity in the Gaza Stripon land, in the air and at sea; several hundred targets were attacked from the air. The forcescontinued searching for and clashing with terrorists who still remained in Israel. In themeantime, Gaza continued firing rockets …

For more than a decade, Israel has clashed with Hamas in Gaza, with cycles of violence defined by periods of intense fighting followed by relative lulls. This brief summarizes a report focusing on a five-year period of this conflict — from the end of Operation Cast Lead in 2009 to …