Global leaders and international aid organizations have been issuing escalating warnings about famine in the war-torn region.

How international condemnation of Israel gives Hamas hope and a reason to keep dragging its feet. Imagine that you are in control of a piece of territory and your people are suffering terribly and facing a hunger crisis.

An Israeli historian answers his critics and explains why his home country’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide.

Others have called for Israel to use the “international credit” to either attack Tehran or invade Gaza’s Rafah city, where more than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering, and which Israel ...

White House national security communications adviser John Kirby on Sunday said it would be up to Israel to decide how it moves forward after Iran launched a missile attack against Israel over the w…

Operationally, the Israeli campaign was indeed impressive. For 12 days, the Israeli air force ruled Iranian skies without losing a single plane. Any euphoria, however, is premature and discordant. Iran has not vanished as an enemy. And the routine state of affairs to which Israel has returned is not peacetime, but continuing war in Gaza.

The Biden administration has said that Israel has a right to defend itself, though it is unclear how large a retaliatory strike Israel could execute before the U.S. would express disapproval.

Israel has the right to defend itself but some of its decisions would breach international law, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters on Tuesday.

Under international law and community, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been duly recognized as militarily occupied territories since 1967. Israel, as the occupant, has the right to protect itself and its citizens from attacks by Palestinians within these territories.

Israel does not want Iran to conclude that it can now attack Israeli territory in response to an Israeli strike on Iranian interests in a third country, some of the officials said, summarizing the ...