Ronen Bergman

The Times reviewed the minutes of 10 meetings among Hamas’s top leaders. The records show the militant group avoided several escalations since 2021 to falsely imply it had been deterred — while seeking Iranian support for a major attack.

As war in the Middle East spreads, the original conflict between Israel and Hamas has persisted. This is why.

An attack on a secret weapons lab was one of the most daring Israeli operations against the Iranian proxy group in years, covert in name only.

The Israeli military decided to strike at the Hezbollah leader because it believed there was only a short window before he disappeared to a different location, three senior Israeli officials said.

Some hawkish generals think that Hezbollah can be forced to back down, current and former Israeli officials said, while others in the government think Israel must reach a deal with Hamas before expanding the war.

The growing sway of far-right settlers in the West Bank has pushed Israeli politics toward a crisis.

Se implantaron pequeñas cantidades de explosivos en dispositivos que Hizbulá había encargado a una empresa taiwanesa, según funcionarios de EE. UU. y de otros países con conocimiento de la operación.

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The missile production facility was destroyed in the attack, according to Western officials. Syrian state media reported that 18 people were killed in the strike.

The latest proposals have yet to be finalized, and both Israeli officials and Hamas leaders have expressed pessimism over the prospects for an agreement.

Yahya Sinwar, the group’s political chief, was charged with carrying out the attacks that resulted in the killing of at least 43 Americans. Five other Hamas senior leaders were also charged.

Israel officials had been hoping that a high-ranking Hamas figure, Muhammad Deif, would visit a villa tied to a top lieutenant. They struck when he appeared to be there, officials said.

The target, Muhammad Deif, was an architect of the Oct. 7 attacks and has been the object of repeated Israeli assassination attempts over decades.

Hamas wants assurances that Israel won’t restart the war after some hostages come home. Israel says it needs the option.

Radical forces in Israeli society have moved from the fringes to the mainstream and put Israel’s democracy in peril. Here are the takeaways from our investigation.

The operation required weeks of planning and received the final go-ahead just a few minutes before it began, according to Israeli officials.

Intelligence collection and analysis teams from the U.S. and the U.K. have been in Israel throughout the war.

After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

The officials said they thought that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others could be charged by the International Criminal Court and that the court was also considering warrants for Hamas leaders.

In debating how to respond to last weekend’s Iranian airstrike, Israel’s war cabinet is choosing between options that could deter future attacks or de-escalate hostilities, but all carry drawbacks.