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.

The US paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Is it a real shift in policy?

By Nicole Narea May 8

Eurovision says it’s “apolitical.” History says otherwise.

By Haleema Shah and Sean Rameswaram May 8

Israel and Hamas aren’t that far apart in ceasefire talks

By Joshua Keating May 8

How AI tells Israel who to bomb

By Rajaa Elidrissi May 7

Vox podcasts tackle the Israel-Hamas war

By Vox Staff May 7

Israel’s Rafah operation, explained

By Ellen Ioanes May 7

What does divesting from Israel really mean?

By Nicole Narea May 7

What Israel’s shutdown of Al Jazeera means

By Nicole Narea May 6

What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about

By Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea May 3

The longshot plan to end the war in Gaza and bring peace to the Middle East

By Joshua Keating May 3

Why America’s Israel-Palestine debate is broken — and how to fix it

By Zack Beauchamp May 2

How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history

By Nicole Narea May 1

Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech

By Miranda Kennedy and Sean Rameswaram April 26

Mass graves at two hospitals are the latest horrors from Gaza

By Ellen Ioanes April 25

Summer Lee’s primary puts Democrats’ divides on Israel on display

By Li Zhou April 24

Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

By Fabiola Cineas April 24

Congress’s $95 billion Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid package, explained

By Li Zhou April 24

Israel and Iran’s conflict enters a new, dangerous phase

By Ellen Ioanes April 19

Is Israel a “settler-colonial” state? The debate, explained.

By Haleema Shah April 17

Israel beat Iran — for now

By Zack Beauchamp April 15

Iran’s retaliatory attack against Israel, briefly explained

By Ellen Ioanes April 13

How the war in Gaza has gone differently than expected — and how it hasn’t

By Joshua Keating April 5

Israel just raised the risk of a regional war

By Joshua Keating April 3

Will Israel let aid workers in Gaza do their jobs?

By Nicole Narea April 3

A very bad year for press freedom

By Caroline Houck March 29

The crisis that could bring down Benjamin Netanyahu, explained

By Zack Beauchamp March 29

Gaza’s risk of famine is accelerating faster than anything we’ve seen this century

By Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea March 25

4 ways in which Biden can pressure Israel on Gaza — if he really wanted to

By Joshua Keating March 14

What the UN report on October 7 sexual violence does — and doesn’t — say

By Ellen Ioanes March 8

More than 100 Palestinians were killed trying to get aid

By Ellen Ioanes February 29

Can Biden contain the fallout from his Gaza policy in Michigan?

By Nicole Narea February 28

Why the Palestinian Authority’s government dissolved

By Ellen Ioanes February 27

Netanyahu’s postwar “plan” for Gaza is no plan at all

By Nicole Narea February 23

The US is ready to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Does it matter?

By Nicole Narea February 20

The looming ground assault on the last “safe” zone in Gaza

By Avishay Artsy February 16

US officials are always talking about “deterring” Iran. What does that really mean?

By Joshua Keating February 16

Hospitals are supposed to be safe. Not in Gaza.

By Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea February 15

Israel’s dangerous escalation in Rafah, explained

By Nicole Narea February 12

Welcome to the “neomedieval era”

By Joshua Keating February 6

America is exporting more arms than ever. Here’s why.

By Nicole Narea February 4

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