The Latest Breaking News from Hamas

The Cecil-the-Lion-Killing Dentist, Civil Rights Boycott Noncompliers, and Hamas Supporters

What should we think (and what does the law think) about publicly accusing ("doxxing"?) people of what some see as shameful behavior?

Reason · Oct 16, 2023

Biden’s support for Israel is qualified: he means to hold Netanyahu to the law of war

The US president has a frosty history with Israel’s PM, says international relations professor Yossi Mekelberg

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

At least 199 people being held captive by Hamas, Israel says

Hamas abducted Israelis and foreigners during the group’s multipronged attack on the country on October 7.

Al Jazeera · Oct 16, 2023

Richard Madeley faces backlash after comparing Gaza civilian deaths to those in Nazi Germany

The war has so far claimed the lives of 2,750 Palestinians following a terror attack on Israel by Hamas ten days ago

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2023

The peril now facing us: Israel invades, Iran intervenes – and this war goes global

Calls for restraint are right but unlikely to be heeded. A conflict setting Israel and the US against Iran has rarely seemed closer, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

French FM Colonna continues Middle East diplomacy drive with talks in Cairo

After her visit to Israel on Sunday, France's foreign minister Catherine Colonna is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian president Abdel Fatah Al-Sissi in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 16, 2023

OPINION - The Standard View: The world must not forget the hostages seized by Hamas

Among the most wretched of the victims of the bloody Hamas attack nine days ago are the hostages — 199, according to Israel — that the group took with them to Gaza. They include a journalist in his Eighties and a grandmother who had survived the Holocaust, as well as…

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2023

FBI director warns of increase in threats amid Israel-Hamas war

Warning comes after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was stabbed to death in Illinois in what police say was an anti-Muslim hate crime linked to the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2023

OPINION - George Chesterton: Sound of silence on attacks is disturbing

It is inconceivable that the reaction to the attacks on Israeli families by Hamas would have been replicated for any other community

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2023

Israel facing ‘devil’s own choice’ as it prepares for onslaught

UK Armed Forces minister James Heappey said delaying a ground assault into Gaza would only allow Hamas more time to move rocket and ammunition stocks

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2023