How to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza

Social media is awash with misinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict, so it's especially important to verify that your money is going to organizations that are legitimate as well as effective.

 I’m an oncologist. Gaza’s heroic doctors leave me in awe.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas has rendered most of Gaza’s hospitals inoperable. But many doctors have stuck by their gravely injured patients, many of whom are small children.

 The Doctors of Gaza

Doctors working inside the Gaza Strip tell their stories of survival.

 What do we know about hospitals in north Gaza? – explainer

The hospitals in the Gaza Strip have become a main point of contention on the international stage as Israel's invasion of the Hamas-run enclave continues. Here's what we know about them.

Israel Gaza war: History of the conflict explained

Britain took control of the area known as Palestine following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled that part of the Middle East, in World War One. The land was inhabited by a Jewish minority and Arab majority, as well as other, smaller ethnic groups.

Biden wants a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Is it still possible?

The two-state solution calls for establishing an independent state for Palestinians alongside that of Israel. And U.S. support for it is nothing new: For decades, it has been the primary proposed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Doctors in Gaza describe the war's devastating impact on health care — and civilians

"We received many casualties, many injured people, attacked while trying to evacuate from Gaza, as we have been told," says Dr. Mattar. "Many of them are children, kids without identity, without family." "We don't have options," says Dr. Aldabbour. "We just do what we have to do. We survive day to day."

Domicide: the destruction of homes in Gaza reminds me of what happened to my city, Homs

The scale of destruction, the level of mass displacement is just so heartbreaking. Gaza has been described as an open prison and people in that open prison have been pushed away from their homes.

If you can’t see the moral gulf between Israel and Hamas, you are morally blind

Opinion: An enemy attacked while Israel slept. That alarm going off is our own. The U.S. needs to wake up.

Israel-Hamas war: Al Shifa Hospital becomes focus of conflicting narratives

“Hamas is operating in a way that is outside the bounds of any civilized concept of how you would think about using a hospital,” US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday. “Without getting into intelligence information, we can just look at the open-source reporting that Hamas is using hospitals… for command-and-control, for weapons storage, to house its fighters, and this is a violation of the laws of war.”

Israelis and Palestinians are steeped in a history of trauma. It reproduces and continues

The only alternative is reconciliation that sees Jews and Arabs truly share the land. At the turn of the 20th century, these two communities coexisted in Palestine, before the project to advantage one group over another started to become a reality. A future where Palestinians and Israelis live side-by-side in relative peace is no easy road, but this only starts with the acknowledgement of an unbearable history...

Israel–Palestine conflict once more the overriding issue of regional security

The Palestinian cause remained, but for the region had become a second or third- order issue among diplomatic normalisation and other pressing challenges.

Israel’s 9/11? How Hamas Terrorist Attacks Will Change the Middle East

Perhaps the most surprising part of Hamas’ devastating cross-border attack was its complexity. Rarely in history has a terrorist organization been able to fight from the air, sea, and land. Both al-Qaeda and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka had similar capabilities but even they were incapable of launching simultaneous, coordinated assaults utilizing all three.

Israel’s War on Hamas: What to Know

Israel will seek to eliminate the threat posed by the Palestinian militant group for good, but its campaign in Gaza could draw in other adversaries, including Hezbollah and al-Qaeda.

The Humanitarian Health Effects of the Israel-Hamas War Among Civilians in Gaza

Frayed health care and an overwhelmed global humanitarian system imperil the health of civilians.

The tragedy of the Israel-Palestine conflict is this: underneath all the horror is a clash of two just causes

This isn’t a contest of heroes and villains – but two peoples in deep pain, fated to share the same land.

The War Hamas Always Wanted

In reality, it was the prospect of Israel’s normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia, more than anything else, that drove Hamas to launch its attack. Such an escalation, the group’s leaders calculated, would obstruct this new diplomatic effort that in their eyes would permanently undermine the standing of the Palestinian cause among Arab and Muslim countries.

Understanding the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 5 charts

Understanding the current war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza requires context and history. These charts aim to show changes in the region that have occurred over time to put some of the events in perspective.

War Has Smashed Assumptions About Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Some paradigms taken for granted about Israel and the Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank, have been broken...

What are the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

As with almost everything to do with this conflict, it depends on whom you ask. Some will begin with the Romans. Others will start with the late 19th-century Jewish migration to what was then the Ottoman Empire – to escape the pogroms and other persecutions in eastern Europe – and the rise of Zionism. Or the Balfour declaration by the British government in 1917 in support of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine and the ensuing conflicts with Arab communities there. But the starting point for many people is the United Nations’ vote in 1947...