The Israel-Palestine Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Portents
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The confrontations across Israel-Palestine are well on the way to becoming one of the worst spasms of violence there in recent memory. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts explain what is behind the explosive events and where they might lead.
How serious is the most recent flare-up in the conflict?
It is extremely serious, partly because it is taking place on several fronts at once: Israeli police actions against Palestinians protesting home evictions or praying at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, cross-border fighting between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, marches from Jordan on the West Bank border, and violence in Israel’s mixed cities – towns with significant numbers of Jewish and Palestinian citizens. Combined, these confrontations are well on their way to becoming one of the worst spasms in the recent history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flare-up could get worse still, namely if Is
The land incursion that never came
Opinion: As part of the IDF s new and deadly multi-faceted combat doctrine, the Israeli military cunningly convinced Gaza terrorists and the world it had launched a ground attack on the Palestinian enclave, making its adversaries expose their positions and dealing them a severe blow
Ron Ben Yishai |
Published: 05.14.21 , 16:10
The IDF acted overnight Friday as expected of it: with creativity, cunningly and showing the best combination of its air and ground force.
In an operation the like of which we have not seen in a long time, the IDF inflicted a concentrated blow on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad s (PIJ) underground combat infrastructure and their militants on the ground.
Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the official opening ceremony of the new Ramon International Airport, named in memory of Ilan and Asaf Ramon, near the southern Israeli city of Eilat, on Jan. 21, 2019.
In the early hours of Thursday, Israel began to divert planes arriving from abroad to Ramon International Airport in the Timna Valley in southern Israel, north of Eilat. instead of allowing them to land at Ben Gurion International Airport next to Lod.
Ben Gurion has been targeted by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket fire since the start of the current conflict, Operation Guardian of the Walls.
Arab-Jewish violence rages on Israeli streets as Gaza conflict intensifies Alexander Smith and Paul Goldman and Lawahez Jabari
Violence raged on the streets of Israel late Wednesday, with rival Arab and Jewish mobs carrying out beatings and torching cars in a wave of communal unrest.
As the conflict with Palestinian militants in Gaza intensified and the death toll grew to at least 90, political leaders in Israel urged an end to the anarchy on the streets of mixed ethnicity towns across the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to restore order with an iron fist if necessary after nights of violence.
Pentagon Evacuates 120 Personnel From Israel As Security Situation Unravels
Published: May 13, 2021
The Pentagon has
evacuated 120 military and civilian personnel who had been in Israel for planned upcoming joint exercises, CNN s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is reporting.
She says the US personnel departed from Tel Aviv under emergency circumstances given the
closure of commercial air travel and the worsening security situation as fighting intensifies between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. The group left on a C-17 Thursday returning to Germany. With violence and lack of commercial air, the decision was made leave early via military transport, the CNN corresponded reported.