Gaza

Galilee Eco Center: regenerative agriculture, healing in the Galilee

The Galilee Eco Center aims to restore land, combining sustainable farming and science.

|ByBEN BRESKY
(From L) Avi Freidman, Ariela Solomon, and Yael Maoz at the site of the future Galilee Eco Center, this year.
This picture shows an UNRWA school in the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem on May 6, 2025.

UNRWA’s West Bank schools drop to four-day weeks over funding issues, UN agency confirms to ‘Post’

UNRWA let go of 571 staff members in January due to financial constraints, amid a decline in donations and ongoing public criticism from Israel and organizations like UN Watch.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A Hamas fighter carries a rifle in the Gaza Strip, last year. Hamas is reportedly prepared to hand over not only weapons tied to internal security, but the broader machinery of governance to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, the writer says.

Gaza leadership shift tests feasibility of structured post-war governance - opinion

A reported Hamas offer to transfer governance functions in Gaza opens a fragile but potentially significant path toward institutional transition, enforcement authority, and phased disarmament.

|BySAMER SINIJLAWI
Yousef al-Jaabari (R), candidate of the Palestinian Fatah movement, casts his ballot at a polling station during municipal elections in the West Bank city of Hebron on April 25, 2026.

Fatah says it claimed ‘sweeping victory’ in local elections, despite democratic shortcomings

Fatah said it won most local councils, including Jenin, where the Palestinian Authority was previously accused of losing control to Hamas-linked Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

IDF expects Hamas to enter disarmament process soon

The announcement was aspirational in that Hamas has not yet done so, and no one can really know whether the Gazan terror group will follow through.

APRIL 17, 2026ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF soldiers seen operating in the northern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2025

Israeli Navy hits Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza targets with precision strikes

With over 1,000 naval combat soldiers at sea for over 26,000 hours in only 47 days of the current Iran-Hezbollah war, the navy said on Thursday.

APRIL 16, 2026ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
The Chief of the General Staff Visited the Israeli Navy March 26, 2025

Foreign press urges Israel's High Court to speed up Gaza access ruling

A conditional order, if granted, would mean the court had found the petition serious enough to require the state to formally justify why the requested relief should not be granted.

APRIL 16, 2026BySARAH BEN-NUN
Palestinian journalists report on the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025.

WATCH: IDF kills three Hamas commanders in Gaza strikes this week

The Hamas terrorists were actively involved in efforts to rebuild the organization’s military capabilities, as well as advancing imminent attack plans against IDF troops.

APRIL 16, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Air Force fighter jet seen in central Israel amid the ongoing war, April 7, 2026.

Donald Trump is the best chance Israelis, Palestinians have for peace since 1993 - opinion

Israel will only have real security when the Palestinians have real freedom, and the Palestinians will only have real freedom when Israel has real security.

APRIL 16, 2026ByGERSHON BASKIN
US President Donald Trump gives a press conference in the White House, April 6, 2026.

Israel’s shift from seeking approval to shaping global narrative - opinion

It took the international responses to the October 7 massacre and the vicious antisemitism, the horrors, and the deaths for Israel to mature.

APRIL 16, 2026ByMICAH HALPERN
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat (L) waves with prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and US president Bill Clinton after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington, in 1993. Israel was forced into Oslo to reduce international isolation, and it backfired, the author notes.

Seattle Palestinian festival hosting terrorist released in hostage deal as keynote speaker

Raed Abduljalil, a former al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades terrorist released in a hostage ransom, is set to speak at the Seattle Palestinian Cultural Resistance Festival.

APRIL 16, 2026ByMICHAEL STARR
Demonstrators gather to protest in support of causes that include the Palestinians, immigration, labor, and the environment, at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, March 12, 2025; illustrative.

Hamas rejects JD Vance's claim that more humanitarian aid entering Gaza after ceasefire

Vance made the claim at a Turning Point USA event on Tuesday, after being heckled by a member of the crowd shouting "Killing children," and "Slaughtering children."

APRIL 15, 2026ByTZVI JASPER
US VICE President JD Vance attends a Turning Point USA event at Akins Ford Arena at the Classic Center, April 14, 2026, in Athens, Georgia.

From rain to dew: Prayer and the meaning of uncertainty - opinion

The shift from rain to dew in prayer reveals a deeper message about resilience, fear, and spiritual growth.

APRIL 15, 2026ByZACHARY PAIKIN
Rain falls in mid-August in the upper Galilee

WATCH: IDF destroys four Hamas tunnels with weapons, living quarters in Gaza

The total length of the destroyed tunnel routes was approximately 800 meters, with the structures including living quarters and weapons.

APRIL 14, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF destroys four Hamas tunnels in Gaza over weekend, April 14, 2026.