Scott Lucas, University College Dublin After 15 months of bitter conflict on the Gaza Strip, a ceasefire deal has been agreed which promises an end to the fighting and will allow for the access of food and other desperately needed humanitarian aid to the civilian population. Since the Israel Defense Forces launched their
byLaura Dixon and Alexa van Sicklefor Global Investigative Journalism Network• As the conflict between Israel and Hamas grinds into its second month, outlets around the world are grappling with how best to understand, visualize, and contextualize what is happening on the ground. Our roundup of the best in data journalism published between October
Hussein Abou Saleh, Sciences Po The devastating attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 October has transformed the Middle East, thrusting the Israeli-Palestinian question – considered a diplomatic side-issue for at least a decade – to the centre stage of the region’s geopolitics. Iran’s proxies have come out of these events emboldened, with
ph. Social media is often used during times of conflict to spread fake news. Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images Paul Morrow, University of Dayton In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For
Mahfoud Amara, Qatar University Palestine was about to embark on its 2026 men’s Fifa World Cup qualifying campaign when the latest round of Hamas-Israeli conflict broke out, making Palestine’s national football stadium in the Israeli-occupied West Bank potentially unsafe for matches. As a result, the Asian Football Confederation asked the football-loving nation to
Nina Gren, Lund University During the 20 years I have been involved in research with Palestinians in the occupied territories, accounts of despair and frustration, and at times resignation and hopelessness, have been a constant theme. As other recent articles in The Conversation have highlighted, the situation in the West Bank and the
ph. Anas-Mohammed / Shutterstock Sergio García Magariño, Universidad Pública de Navarra The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the longest and most violent ongoing modern conflicts. It involves multiple causes, and includes various actors, one of which is Hamas, perpetrators of the brutal attack on Israel that has initiated the war in Gaza. But
Palestinian children play outside an UNRWA school following Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 12, 2023. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego International aid groups are warning that they cannot deliver food and other basic services to people in the Gaza Strip and that a “dire” humanitarian crisis is
Israelis inspect the rubble of a building in Tel Aviv on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. AP Photo/Oded Balilty Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the
Eyal Mayroz, University of Sydney Almost 50 years ago to the day, Israel had failed to anticipate the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur war – a shock attack on its borders by a coalition of Arab states. Now, it appears the country’s intelligence apparatuses have fallen victim to a false sense of