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The war in Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, has killed more than 39,000 people, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish ...
Hamas’s refusal to compromise on that point and sign off on this deal could let Netanyahu off the hook, and plunge Gaza into many more months of war. This story and its headline have been updated.
On 21 November 2024, following an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two senior Israeli officials, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the former Minister of Defense of Israel, alleging responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes ...
Indeed, according to Amit Segal, chief political commentator for Israel’s Channel 12, the surprise would be if Bibi’s prime ministership survives this war. “It would set a national precedent ...
1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. [3] [4] His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
Israel refused to recognise the PLO until the Oslo Accords process in the 1990s, instead seeking to handle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through alternative bodies. In international negotiations, this particularly took the form of Arab state intermediaries, especially Jordan, such as via the Jordanian option, and Egypt following the late 1970s Camp David Accords.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also drew headlines for his statements during the war. Notably, Netanyahu stated the war was "a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle." [182] [183] Netanyahu also termed the conflict as "Israel's second War of Independence". [184]
Today, Netanyahu faces considerable headwinds at home as Israelis heap blame on him for the surprise attack. An adviser to Netanyahu speculated that Biden "is the most loved person in Israel ...