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In the 2008-2009 Gaza War too, there were allegations that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck the Gaza Strip with sub-munitions containing white phosphorus. The Israeli government, which initially denied this, later acknowledged that it did use white phosphorus in 2009, but only in uninhabitable areas, for the purpose of…

The 32-year-old is living in Florida, where he moved earlier this year after he was successfully sued for defamation in Israel

On August 12 1949, members of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) unit at the Nirim outpost in the Negev desert were celebrating the successful establishment of their new camp, close to the recently agreed armistice line with Egypt. What happened at that party was long-hidden, until a 2003 investigation by…

The IDF’s ‘three-phase’ operation would increase Hamas’s influence in the region rather than extinguishing it, says Paul Rogers, emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford University