Israel
Vox’s coverage of Israel, from the Israel-Palestine conflict to Israel’s elections to its relationship with the US and more. You can find more coverage of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel here or by following Vox’s storystream of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
Why the US and Israel are becoming “increasingly isolated.”
Starbucks’s messy December, explained.
Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system.
The Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever.
Two decades after 9/11, extremist groups continue to pull off surprise attacks. Why?
For many Jews, the October 7 attacks discredited both the Zionist right and the anti-Zionist left — paving the way for the resurrection of a seemingly dead political tradition.
The party is fractured over President Joe Biden’s unequivocal support for Israel as the war in Gaza continues ahead of 2024.
With dozens of reporters dead in Gaza and others harassed and censored inside Israel, experts are deeply concerned about press freedom in “the Middle East’s only democracy.”
Increasingly, civilians are running out of safe places to go.
The iconic Palestinian scarf started out as a practical garment. It became an emblem of an aspiring nation.
Seven weeks into the war, 15,000 Palestinians have been killed, and there’s no end in sight.
With the world focused on Gaza, Israeli settlers and soldiers are increasing attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.
What’s behind the politics shift in the United States around Israel and Palestine — and how it might affect the 2024 presidential race.
Monday’s extension is good news for anyone concerned about the humanitarian situation, but the bigger questions about the future of the war remain.
Authorities are investigating whether the shooting was a potential hate crime.
“From the river to the sea” demands conversations about the future of Israel and Palestine.
The tiny Gulf state has ties with the parties in the conflict. That has made its diplomacy essential — which is exactly what the Qataris want.
150 Palestinian prisoners are being released as part of Israel and Hamas’s recent hostage deal. But thousands more remain behind bars.
Here’s what the reported hostage deal does — and doesn’t — mean for war in Gaza.
The agreement is a pause, not a ceasefire. That distinction matters — a lot.
A timeline of the decades-long peace negotiations that came before the Israel-Hamas war.
What the US sending Israel weapons “at the speed of war” looks like.
Why bin Laden’s 2002 letter became the latest TikTok moral panic.
Gaza’s largest hospital was raided by the IDF. Others are struggling to stay open.
What we talk about when we talk about genocide.
Civilians continue to flee south as fighting around hospitals increases.
Brussels is on the sidelines, but it’s not insulated from the conflict’s fallout.
The move follows bipartisan backlash over rhetoric Tlaib has used in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
It’s a strip of land surrounded by Israel but populated by Palestinians.
These are the two broad ways the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might end.
Since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank began in 1967, Israelis have been traveling there in groups to live in settlements.
The West Bank is a chunk of land east of Israel, home to nearly 3 million Palestinians.
Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both want the same land. And a compromise has proven difficult to find.
Since October 7, settler radicals have been attacking Palestinians at an unprecedented rate — uprooting entire communities and threatening a wider war.
While attention is rightly focused on the catastrophe in Gaza, millions elsewhere are suffering — and the world doesn’t seem to care.
Antisemitic incidents are on the rise in France, Germany, and the UK.
Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas but haven’t opened new fronts.
Worldwide protests denounced Israel’s strikes on Gaza, which hit refugee camps and ambulances.
A First Amendment lawyer argues the university’s role in a crisis should be shutting up.
What history can — and can’t — tell us about the hope for a Gaza ceasefire.