For Israeli decision-makers, starvation of the Gaza Strip was in the cards from day one of the war

When Netanyahu isn't busy slandering and inciting, he's ousting anyone unwilling to fall in line with his criminal standards ■ There is a common strategy behind the prime minister's campaign against the attorney general and his removal of Yuli Edelstein from the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Hamas leverages Gaza's dire situation to force Israel's hand in hostage negotiations, with the international community's patience wearing thin and internal IDF disagreements adding pressure

Eti Ben-Shimol leads a weekly, deliberately non-political protest in the southern Israeli city of Dimona, calling for a hostage deal. 'We know where we live – this is a Likud stronghold,' she says. The group's message is simple: to show hostage families that they're not alone

The motion for the agenda passed 71 in favor and 13 against. Though purely declarative, it could launch a wider Knesset debate on annexation

Knesset members called for West Bank annexation, blamed France's immigration policy and said France was contributing to terrorism, in response to Macron's promise to recognize a Palestinian State

'The French people want peace in the Middle East. It is up to us, the French, together with the Israelis, the Palestinians, and our European and international partners, to demonstrate that it is possible,' Macron said

Wednesday's front page of the right-wing The Daily Express – of a starving Gazan child, with a plea to end the war – marked a tonal shift in international media coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as deaths from starvation rise

Footage shows violent police arrests in Haifa, at a protest organized by Arab Israelis. In Tel Aviv, Noam Tibon, a retired IDF general, spoke against the Gaza war: 'The IDF is sinking in the bloody swamp – this terrible bleeding must stop'

The bill seeks to turn the so-called Al Jazeera Law from a temporary order, which allows for the permanent closure of foreign media outlets in Israel, into a permanent law. Both the Attorney General's Office and the journalists' union oppose the bill

Almost two years into the Gaza war, four Israeli researchers release a report questioning the veracity of information received from Gaza, deflecting heat from government and military top brass – and letting the Israeli public go on with their lives, guilt-free

Gaza journalist Anas Al-Sharif says he fears for his life after the IDF claimed he is a Hamas member. 'These latest unfounded accusations represent an effort to manufacture consent to kill Al-Sharif,' the Committee to Protect Journalists warned