JOSEPH KRAUSS

Palestinians attend a rally marking the 35th anniversary of the Hamas movement's founding in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Protests broke out against Hamas in Gaza. What do Palestinians think about the militant group?
Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip. They were the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.
 
The bodies of victims of an Israeli army airstrike are prepared for burial at Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israel returns to war in Gaza with wider aims and almost no constraints
Israel’s renewed military offensive in the Gaza Strip threatens to be even deadlier and more destructive than the last, as it pursues wider aims with far fewer constraints.
 
In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)
Why did Netanyahu end the Gaza ceasefire?
The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
For Trump the peace negotiator, might makes right. History offers different lessons
As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving the stronger party what it wants and pushing the weaker to accept it.
 
Buildings destroyed during the Israeli air-and-ground offensive in the Gaza Strip are seen from southern Israel, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
With the Gaza ceasefire in limbo, Israel tries to impose an alternative plan on Hamas
Israel has introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip. The plan is different from the one the two sides agreed to in January.
 
Israeli soldiers take up positions next to the Philadelphi Corridor along the border with Egypt, in the Gaza Strip, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
Israel’s refusal to withdraw from this narrow strip of desert could threaten the Gaza ceasefire
Israel’s refusal to withdraw from a narrow strip of desert on Gaza’s border with Egypt, as called for in the ceasefire with Hamas, could threaten the truce.
 
Protesters demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Getting the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to the next phase will be difficult. Here’s why
The first phase of the ceasefire that paused 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas militants is set to end on Saturday. It’s unclear what comes next.
 
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump’s Gaza plan has stunned the region. Here’s a look at the serious obstacles it faces
President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop faces some major obstacle. The Palestinians don’t want to leave and the Arab world doesn’t want another refugee crisis.
 
Palestinians salvage what they can from the destruction left by Israeli troops in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Gaza is in ruins, and it’s unclear how it will be rebuilt
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war. But many will find there is nothing left and no way to rebuild.
 
A view of an area in Gaza City destroyed during fightings between the Israeli army against Hamas, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Feb.4, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians fear a repeat of their 1948 mass expulsion in the wake of Trump’s remarks on Gaza
Palestinians will mark this year the 77th anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It’s an event that is at the core of their national struggle. Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe.
 
President Donald Trump speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here’s why the idea is rejected
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has once again rejected any mass displacement of Palestinians after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has called for the Gaza Strip’s roughly 2 million residents to be removed from the war-ravaged territory.
 
Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock on the al Rashid Street, as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Qatar says a deal is reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians into northern Gaza
Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The deal eases the first major crisis of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
 
Israeli army vehicles are seen during a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Why is Israel launching a crackdown in the West Bank after the Gaza ceasefire?
In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns.
 
Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi places a wreath during a memorial ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel Sunday Oct. 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Who in Israel has resigned over the Oct. 7 security breakdown, and who hasn’t?
Israel’s top general on Tuesday became the highest-ranking official to resign over Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the worst security failure in the country’s history.
 
Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, control the crowd as Red Cross vehicles manoeuvre to collect Israeli hostages to be released under a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)
After 15 months of war, Hamas still rules over what remains of Gaza
As a ceasefire brought calm to Gaza’s ruined cities, Hamas was quick to emerge from hiding. The militant group has not only survived Israel’s 15-month military campaign — among the deadliest and most destructive in recent memory — but it remains firmly in control of the coastal territory that now re
 
Palestinians salvage what they can from the destruction left by Israeli troops in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Gaza is in ruins, and it’s unclear how it will be rebuilt
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war. But many will find there is nothing left and no way to rebuild.
 
Palestinian children play next to a building destroyed by Israeli army strikes in the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
What does the ceasefire agreement mean for Israel, Hamas and the wider Middle East?
Mediators say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting in Gaza and to begin releasing the hostages held there.
 
A girl watches as Mohammad Eid mourns his cousin Dima, along with her uncle and grandfather, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
What are the main obstacles to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages?
Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect talks for more than a year aimed at ending the war in Gaza and returning scores of militant-held hostages in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
 
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Bob Daugherty, File)
Carter’s quest for Mideast peace didn’t end with Camp David
As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield. Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David peace accords in 1978.
 
Group photo of the participants of the Siemens and Glassdome event in Munich
America’s closest ally in Syria is losing ground as a new order takes shape
The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country. But after nearly 14 years of civil war, putting that ideal into practice will not be easy.
 
This combination of images shows comedian and podcaster Theo Von, left, President Donald Trump, center, and comedian-commentator and podcaster Joe Rogan. (AP Photo)
Was it all a joke? How stand-up comedy helped reelect Trump
Did stand-up comedians help reelect Donald Trump? Not a joke, as outgoing President Joe Biden might say.
 
FILE - Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Enas Rami, File)
Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza’s most devastated region
More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip.
 
FILE - United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah, File)
Israel approves two bills that could halt UNRWA’s aid delivery to Gaza. What does that mean?
Israel’s parliament has passed bills banning the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
 
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel Sunday Oct. 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
Key mediator Egypt proposes a 2-day Gaza cease-fire and the release of 4 hostages
Egypt’s president says his country has proposed a two-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas during which four hostages held in Gaza would be freed.
 
FILE - Destroyed buildings are seen through the window of an airplane from the U.S. Air Force overflying the Gaza Strip, on March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
It could take 350 years for Gaza to rebuild if it remains under a blockade, UN report says
United Nations agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas. Now, a new report speaks in terms of centuries. The U.N.
 
FILE - Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Hunger experts say the risk of famine in Gaza remains high
The international authority on hunger crises says the Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war. That’s even as the number of people facing the most extreme level of hunger has declined in recent months.
 
FILE - Palestinian paramedics inspect damage in the patient rooms caused by the Israeli strikes on the maternity ward at Nasser Hospital in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman, File)
UN-backed experts say Israel is destroying Gaza’s health sector and both sides have tortured people
A U.N. commission has accused Israel of destroying Gaza’s health care system through “relentless and deliberate attacks” in its yearlong war with Hamas. It also said Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages have been tortured and sexually abused.
 
Destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive is seen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Gaza is in ruins after Israel’s yearlong offensive. Rebuilding may take decades test 1
The Gaza Strip is in ruins. There are hills of rubble where apartment blocks stood, and pools of sewage-tainted water spreading disease.
 
Relatives mourn over the coffin of Zulfikar Dergham Musa Al-Jabouri, in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 who died in Israeli airstrikes on Sept. 23 fighting alongside Hezbollah in Tyre, south Lebanon. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
What obstacles stand in the way of an Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire?
Israel and Hezbollah each have strong incentives to heed international calls for a cease-fire that could avert all-out war — but that doesn’t mean they will.
 
Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the Mahmoudieh mountain, as seen from Marjayoun town, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel has landed heavy blows on Hezbollah. The victory it seeks could prove elusive
It has been a devastating week for Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon. Bombs hidden in the group’s pagers and walkie-talkies killed dozens of its members and wounded thousands.
 
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