“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
U.S. President Joe Biden's energy security advisor is visiting Israel to discuss potential economic revitalization plans for Gaza centered around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields
The post seen in this photo contains blatant lies about the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. It has absolutely no basis in Haaretz’s reporting, then or since
An exclusive report from Israel's Channel 12 News features new documents and previously unheard conversations showing Netanyahu's efforts to sabotage any hostage deal
Israel is headed by a corrupt criminal defendant. And now, he is leading the country into a war in which nobody even knows the precise goals, much less the outcome, Zvi Bar'el writes
Netanyahu isn’t the solution, but the problem. He has legitimized Jewish supremacists and the far right. During his years in power, Israel has grown more extreme, and people who used to be loathsome pariahs are now senior ministers | Haaretz Editorial
Four days after Bassem Tamimi's arrest, police ████, ████ ████: "███████ ███ ████ █████ ███ ████████, ██████, █████? "███████ ███ ██████: "████ ███ ██████." And that was that
Massive crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip by Israel could not only lead to an untold death toll of Palestinians in Gaza, but also to the political and moral end of Israel itself,
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"A woman who represents a mixed marriage cannot represent Jewish culture": Israeli Education Ministry withdraws funding of Jewish event over Arab Israeli host
The IDF says 9,000 terrorists have been killed since the Gaza war began. Defense officials and soldiers, however, tell Haaretz that these are often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF /
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Ofer Cassif, an Israeli lawmaker from the left-wing Jewish and Arab Hadash-Ta'al Party, caused an uproar in the Knesset after he signed a petition filed by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
The entire world has good reason now to root for Netanyahu's downfall. As long as he is in power, it is not only the hostages who are in danger. The whole world is in danger | Opinion | Rogel Alpher
52,000 pregnant women and over 30,000 babies under six months of age are currently drinking brackish or contaminated water in Gaza, according to an internal U.S. State Department document's assessment
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The IDF's General Staff lost control over the units, especially reserve units, months ago. In Gaza, in the West Bank and in bases in Israel, soldiers record themselves destroying Palestinian property and civilian infrastructure / Amos Harel
LISTEN: Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner tells Haaretz Podcast why he's baffled by the controversy over director Jonathan Glazer's "unimpeachable and irrefutable" remarks at the 2024 Oscar Awards
Haaretz investigation reveals cases of negligence and the spreading of misinformation by the Zaka volunteer group, which began collecting bodies in the devastated communities of southern Israel immediately after the Hamas attack /
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A very senior IDF source confirmed to Haaretz that the Hannibal procedure, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed on October 7
Israelis are now living in a movie, a sealed bubble designed by Channel 12 military correspondent Nir Dvori and IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari. They have no idea what we have left behind in Gaza, and what is said about us in the world | Opinion | Uri Misgav
In 2009, Netanyahu developed a destructive, warped political doctrine that held that strengthening Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian Authority would be good for Israel / Dmitry Shumsky
Horrifyingly, but not surprisingly, Netanyahu has partners who prefer revenge to concern for captives.
At a cabinet meeting, Smotrich said, “We have to be cruel now and not consider the captives overmuch.” This is unacceptable | Haaretz Editorial
War crimes can be committed not only by people with Kalashnikovs riding Toyota trucks. They can also be committed from defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, or from the pilot’s seat in a fighter plane or helicopter, Michael Sfard writes
In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides.
In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror.
In the shadow of war, Arab-Jewish solidarity initiatives emerge
Information obtained by Haaretz indicates IDF commanders have ordered soldiers to set fire to abandoned Gaza homes without legal approval.
Several hundred have already been irreparably damaged /
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"What Jonathan Glazer is saying is that Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust, must not be used in the campaign as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people. Who doesn't agree with that?"
The judges in The Hague diagnosed perfectly what we here refuse to admit: Israel's problem is its mainstream, not its lunatic fringes | Opinion | Gideon Levy
Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken captive, was employed at three facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well
Israelis experienced a horrific trauma, and now we’re bombing, killing and starving people, and mainly hardening our hearts to stone. Moral corruption is no less dangerous to our survival than Hamas,
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Instead of bolstering the status of Israel among the international community, as he promised in his first book, "A Place Among the Nations," Netanyahu has brought it to the status of a criminal and murderous state / Haaretz editor Aluf Benn
Based on conversations with 13 eyewitnesses, Washington Post investigation finds that the IDF fired at protesters "from a distance where they posed no apparent threat" when American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot
🚨🇮🇱 Haaretz investigation EXPOSES all the ISRAELI LIES from October 7th (just like I predicated).
🇮🇱 Confirmed number dead is 900, not “nearly 2,000.”
🇮🇱 50% were Israeli soldiers.
🇮🇱 Most deaths have signs of being dead during Tank shelling.
🇮🇱 No evidence Hamas burnt any
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Haaretz investigation reveals: Israeli who managed to escape Nova music festival on Oct. 7, shortly before it was overrun by Hamas terrorists, was killed by a volunteer security squad at a neighboring kibbutz after being misidentified as a terrorist
Two co-creators of an Israeli-Palestinian documentary won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and used their acceptance speeches to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to Israel's inhumane treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank
Thanks to the funneling of millions of Qatari dollars to Gaza, with Netanyuhu’s repeated approval as part of a deliberate, malicious policy aimed at burying the two-state solution, Hamas acquired inordinate military capabilities / Dmitry Shumsky
There is reason to believe that the four hostages whose death was announced Monday were accidentally hit by the IDF shelling. That buttresses the families' claim that any delay in the deal endangers the lives of the hostages/ Amos Harel
"I was struck to learn that the suffering of the people in Gaza has not generated much empathy among most Israelis, as if everybody in Gaza is guilty so everyone, including women and children, must pay for what Hamas has done. This is a big mistake"
A 25-year-old British Jewish man says he was instructed to leave Israel and had his immigration process halted after being arrested at a rally for a hostage release deal and filming the arrest of a Palestinian minor in the West Bank
Netanyahu, Smotrich and their colleagues are annexing the West Bank right now. They are instituting apartheid and destroying the two-state solution. And if they succeed, Israel will cease to exist as a democratic country | Haaretz Editorial
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Reversing an earlier denial, IDF officials have admitted that a Telegram channel aimed at Israelis was operated by members of a department of the Operations Directorate
IDF on decision to shell house with hostages in Be'eri on October 7: "The tank fire toward the house was done professionally, in a joint decision of commanders from all organizations, after much thought and assessment of the situation"
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details
If Israel continues to ignore what the world tells it, it may wake up to a reality in which it is boycotted and ostracized like apartheid-era South Africa | Haaretz Editorial
"His mood recently has been delusional and dangerous," one government minister tells Haaretz about Netanyahu. "He's lost it, and we're all going down with him. In his view, everyone can pay any price as long as he survives"
We have the right to say that the force Israel is using in Gaza is not proportionate, and in fact is excessive, that killing Palestinian women and children is wrong, just as we say that the kind of brutality we saw on October 7 is wrong | Opinion
A number of soldiers and medical professionals who served at Sde Teiman agreed to talk with Haaretz about their time there.
Eight of the testimonies follow, anonymously and in chronological order, from the earliest stint to the most recent
The footage from Lebanon is too horrible to watch, but Israelis are the ones who most need to see it. Israelis should be morally repulsed. Then they should at least be asking themselves: what has this accomplished, and what will be the costs? /
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Torture, sexual abuse and humiliation: Dozens of testimonies from Palestinian prisoners describe conditions in Israeli jails during Gaza war /
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A man dies in prison, yet the Israel Prison Service doesn't think it should report the circumstances of his death to the public because he wasn't Israeli. Do the lives of those who aren't citizens have no value in Israeli prisons? / Gideon Levy
If the Israeli government doesn't come to its senses immediately and respond decisively to settlers' actions in the West Bank, it will be adding another catastrophe to its record of failures | Haaretz Editorial
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Israel's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi submitted a proposal to take action against Haaretz by ending the publication of government notices in Haaretz
A society that ignores so blatantly the price paid by tens of thousands of people for the rescue of four of its hostages and a moment of joy for its members, is a society that is missing something vital | Opinion | Gideon Levy
Why are Israeli soldiers uploading photos of themselves inside with Palestinian detainees to their dating profiles? Beyond the "uniform effect," some experts say the violent militarism seen on dating apps is leading to disturbing trends in Israeli society
Assaulted journalists are not the story. The story is the depth of the cesspool to which the religious Zionist society has sunk. This is a society whose main annual event is a sickening demonstration of racism and violence /
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In total, in the past 12 months, 1,926 attacks by Jews against Palestinians in the West Bank were recorded. FYI, President Biden: Their guns were U.S.-made, and the goal is for these weapons to terrorize people | Opinion | Amira Hass