Benjamin Netanyahu's government has now set its sights on Syria and launch air strikes this week to cripple military targets

WASHINGTON – The Israeli military’s seizure of Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip’s largest medical complex, is central to the military strategy at the heart of the ground invasion: Eradicate ...

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Only last week, optimism was swirling over the prospects of a formal truce agreement between longtime enemies Israel and Syria, designed to put an end to the strikes Israel had been carrying out on military assets of the new regime.

Currently, Israel stands virtually alone in recognizing and countering the strategic peril posed by Erdogan’s Turkey and al-Sharaa’s Syria. Its consistent willingness to confront such threats head-on distinguishes it starkly from Western allies, underscoring Israel’s unique moral clarity and strategic foresight.

KEREM SHALOM, Israel—After four months of relative calm in Gaza, Israel has begun the push into Rafah, the Strip’s southernmost city, to eliminate what it calls Hamas’ last stronghold. But ...

Israel’s defense failures may change strategy toward Hamas and Gaza. The broad attack by Palestinian militants, which Hamas viewed as mostly successful, revealed some significant failures.

Israel’s involvement in Syria isn’t about conquest or regime change. It’s about protecting its Druze citizens’ kin, preventing jihadist chaos from reaching its borders, and ensuring that failed states don’t become launching pads for future attacks.

The good news is that the Israeli military is succeeding in demilitarizing Gaza and dismantling Hamas’s military capability. Israel’s forces have already destroyed 18 of the 24 Hamas battalions. Not all the battalions’ fighters have been killed or captured, but their units no longer exist and they are no longer part of an organized ...

The jihadists’ Oct. 7 savagery shattered the comforting illusion – shared by Israel’s governing coalition and opposition, military experts, and people – that the Jewish state could live ...

The Gaza Strip has become a war zone since Hamas on Oct. 7 conducted a surprise cross-border attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted more than 200 people as ...