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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Reuters. Hamas Is Not ISIS
The two groups are not the same, and their differences are likely to matter as this war proceeds.
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Marcus Yam / Getty Tell Me How This Ends
The Israeli operation faces the same question that ultimately vexed the American project in Iraq: What comes next?
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Hatem Ali / Reuters The Cost of War Will Be Counted in Children’s Lives
Thousands of kids have reportedly died since this war began. Those who survive might be scarred forever.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. India’s Hindu Extremists Are Trolling the Israel Conflict
The surprising source of the fake videos clogging up social-media feeds
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Bettmann / Getty The Murky Logic of Companies’ Israel-Hamas Statements
In recent weeks, public statements about the war have emerged from corporations of all kinds. Predictably, they have not all gone over well.
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Kenny Holston / The New York Times / … America Is Lucky That Biden’s in Charge
Everyone is looking to Washington for leadership in the Middle East.
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Ali Jadallah / Anadolu / Getty Destruction in Gaza
Images from Gaza taken over the past five days, where Palestinians are working with few resources to tend to those displaced, rescue those trapped, help the injured, and bury their dead.
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Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency / Getty ‘You Started a War, You’ll Get a Nakba’
Since the Hamas attack, settler violence against Palestinians has intensified in the West Bank.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Johannes Eislele / … I Was a Child in a War
In Israel, Gaza, and around the world, my experience is all too common.
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Mohammed Dahman / AP I Don’t See a Better Way Out
I envy those who know exactly how Hamas can be stopped without any more killing, because I don’t.
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Jerome Sessini for The Atlantic A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism
Officials in Israel screened footage of the Hamas attack for the press: “What we shared with you, you should know it,” one official said.
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Stringer / Reuters / Redux How the Media Got the Hospital Explosion Wrong
Amplifying dubious Hamas claims caused real damage. No wonder public trust in news reporting is so low.
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Jack Guez / AFP / Getty The End of Netanyahu
He sold Israelis a story about their safety. It turned out not to be true.
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Ron Haviv / VII / Redux Netanyahu’s Attack on Democracy Left Israel Unprepared
The prime minister brought about a situation in which all the options are bad.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Said Khatib / … The War in Gaza Is Getting Remixed in Real Time
Unconfirmed atrocities are turning into memes.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Calls for a Cease-Fire—But Then What?
On Thursday, President Joe Biden called for religious tolerance and military aid for Israel. On Friday, thousands of Muslim Americans protested against him.
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Marcus Yam / LA Times / Getty A Collection of Narratives on the Israel-Hamas War
Plus: What did you learn from the 9/11 attacks and America’s responses to them?
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Stephanie Keith / Getty, Adem Altan / AFP … Around the World, Demonstrations of Support, Grief, and Anger
Images from recent protests supporting either Israelis or Palestinians
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Thomas COEX / AFP / Getty How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People
Make Palestinian governance better instead of leaving a vacuum for Hamas to fill.
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Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu Agency / Getty Hamas’s Hostage-Taking Handbook Says to ‘Kill the Difficult Ones’ and Use Hostages as ‘Human Shields’
The document, which I obtained from an Israeli official, also suggests that Hamas did not plan to take hostages back to Gaza.
