And Israel fought back covertly. But its military strategy was still mired in the old ways, and Iran seemed like too big an enemy for such a small state to successfully attack directly.

The Israeli military’s seizure of Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex, is central to the military strategy at the heart of the ground invasion: Eradicate Hamas and free roughly ...

Israel Obama says any Israeli military strategy that ignores human costs 'could ultimately backfire' Former President Obama says choices Israel is making ‘could further harden Palestinian ...

With the increasing likelihood of new capture operations, the occupation command has urged its soldiers to heighten their ...

On Sunday, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) placed the 4.5-ton Dror-1 communications satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.As the Post’s Yonah Jeremy Bob reported, ...

Israel Defense Forces Reservist On The Country's Military Strategy NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Assaf Orion, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv ...

The Israeli military says it has killed 9,000 Hamas fighters and degraded the group’s capabilities. But without a “day after” strategy in Gaza, its achievements could be fleeting.

KEREM SHALOM, Israel—After four months of relative calm in Gaza, Israel has begun the push into Rafah, the Strip’s southernmost city, to eliminate what it calls Hamas’ last stronghold. But ...

Israel’s defense failures may change strategy toward Hamas and Gaza. The broad attack by Palestinian militants, which Hamas viewed as mostly successful, revealed some significant failures.

An Israeli military officer told me that until October 7, Israel believed that Hamas tacitly accepted the bargain, and that they were "not interested" in attacking Israel on a large scale. Hamas ...

The Hamas attack represented a spectacular failure of Israel's 'mowing the grass' strategy in the Gaza Strip. Only better conditions can break the cycle.