An Israeli settlement is made up of housing units built for Jewish Israelis on land captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war, primarily in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The land is home to Palestinians who seek a future independent state.

An expert analyzes how China is responding to a new set of global challenges. China’s growing engagement in the Middle East—heightened by the recent escalation of conflict in Gaza—has drawn significant global attention and speculation.

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a system to prevent anyone else from doing so.

Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas.

HASAN T. ALHASAN is Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. EMILE HOKAYEM is Director of Regional Security and Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Furthermore, the responses to Auchincloss’ stilted, minimalist answers (starvation is bad; being pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian should not be mutually contradictory; Hamas has a singular responsibility to end the conflict) indicated that while there were some supporters of the current Israeli government in the audience,

By the 1990s, Israeli intelligence was growing increasingly concerned that Iran was escalating and trying to develop a nuclear bomb—a red line for Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

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A sprawling heat dome is delivering the hottest weather of an already toasty summer to several locations, with some spots in the Middle East dealing with record-high temperatures.

Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday that Israel's plan to relocate residents from Gaza City constitutes a "new wave of genocide and displacement" for hundreds of thousands of residents in the area.