Hamas

Gaza's new power struggle: Militias, contractors, and peacekeepers under US-backed plan

As Gaza's power dynamics shift, US-backed peace plans face challenges with private contractors, militias, and potential peacekeepers. Indonesia may lead the peacekeeping mission

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A patch with Indonesia and an Indonesian flag on the arm of an Indonesian soldier during the preparation of the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris France on July 14, 2025.
Illustrative image of Muhammad Ismail Darwish and Ali Larijani

Senior Hamas officials meet Iran's Larijani in Doha to discuss conditions in Gaza

Muhammad Ismail Darwish, chairman of Hamas's Shura Council, led the delegation in talks with Ali Larijani in the Qatari capital.

|ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar at the opening of the Israeli Cartoon Museum in the city of Holon, central Israel, February 10, 2026.

Culture minister backs dropping ‘massacre’ from Oct. 7 bill, says term reflects ‘victimhood’

“The State of Israel is a strong country. The days when it was possible to massacre the State of Israel no longer exist,” said Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar.

|ByKESHET NEEV
IDF operates in West Bank, February 9, 2026.

Tens of thousands of shekels seized, suspected Hamas, Islamic Jihad affiliates arrested in IDF op.

During the operation, the IDF arrested multiple suspects affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and seized tens of thousands of shekels in alleged terror funds, the IDF said. 

|BySHIR PERETS

How Hamas turns Palestinian death into a political strategy - opinion

Hamas frames death as heroism while protecting its own, all while exploiting the suffering of the Palestinian people.

FEBRUARY 7, 2026BySALEM ALKETBI
Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

Burn the kitchen down: A transformational Trump must strike at Iran now - opinion

A crushing military blow on Iran is necessary to create a Middle East and a broader world where Washington and its friends are far stronger, and their enemies far weaker, than ever before.

FEBRUARY 6, 2026ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
IRANIAN PRO-GOVERNMENT supporters burn pictures of US President Donald Trump, last month. If Trump’s bluster against Iran just leads to another soft deal that kicks the Iranian nuclear can down the road, then Trump’s presidency is finished, the writer says.

IDF conducting scans in Karmei Tzur after infiltration alert sounds, seizes West Bank weapons

The IDF arrested 60 suspects and seized firearms in counterterrorism operations across the West Bank. A terrorist also opened fire on soldiers in Gaza near the Yellow Line.

FEBRUARY 6, 2026ByJAMES GENN, ARIELLA ROITMAN
An IDF soldier operating in the West Bank, published on February 6, 2026.

Israel's negligent ‘hasbara’ failure in Gaza could have been avoided - opinion

While Hamas was flooding the world with unverified figures, Israel made no systematic effort to challenge them. 

FEBRUARY 6, 2026ByYAAKOV KATZ, PETER LERNER
MOURNERS PRAY during the funeral of Palestinians in Gaza, who, according to medics, were killed by an Israeli strike, on Wednesday. While Hamas was flooding the world with unverified figures, Israel made no systematic effort to challenge them, the writers say.

Grapevine February 6, 2026: Mixed feelings over Herzog’s visit down under

Movers and shakers in israeli society.

FEBRUARY 6, 2026ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Bank Hapoalim’s public committee (from L): Amram Mitzna, Naama Halevi-Peer, Noam Hanegbi, and Sharona Tarshish.

Francesca Albanese expected to speak at Al Jazeera Forum alongside Hamas leader, Iran's FM - report

Albanese is listed on Al Jazeera's site as a speaker during the forum's third session on its first day, during a panel titled: "The Palestinian Cause in a World Moving Toward Multipolarity."

FEBRUARY 6, 2026ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, speaks at the conference "Cartography of a Genocide", on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at Roma Tre University, in Rome, Italy, October 6, 2025.

Netanyahu releases pre-Oct. 7 intel documents, claims defense echelon urged keeping Hamas in power

The documents, spanning from February 2023 to an hour before attack, show how Israel's defense echelon misread Hamas’s intentions, and characterized the terror group as deterred.

FEBRUARY 6, 2026ByAMICHAI STEIN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ministers and MK's attend a Special Session in his Honor of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.

Reuters sees map of UAE plans for Gaza housing complex on Israeli side of Gaza's Yellow Line

The planning map shows where the "UAE Temporary Emirates Housing Complex" would be constructed near Rafah.

FEBRUARY 5, 2026ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Gaza City, November 25, 2025.

'They don't want us involved': Trump says Iran will negotiate because it fears war with US

Trump also addressed the negotiations on Wednesday, saying Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "should be very worried" during a pre-recorded interview with NBC News.

FEBRUARY 5, 2026BySHIR PERETS
US President Donald Trump prays during a group prayer during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, US, February 5, 2026.

Jerusalem removed hotel land plan from agenda after Oct. 7 families protested

The families cited a US civil lawsuit that alleges the project is linked to Bashar al-Masri, a Palestinian-American businessman accused in court filings of aiding Hamas.

FEBRUARY 5, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Bereaved families and opposition MKs formed a separate committee meeting in the Knesset in protest of the first debate advancing the government bill that aims to establish a politically appointed committee to investigate the failures surrounding the October 7 attacks.