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Hamas's surprise attack on Israel on Saturday has triggered outright war between Israel and Palestine, with levels of violence not seen in decades. FRANCE 24 spoke to Ami Ayalon, the former director of Israel’s national security service Shin Bet, to discuss what is happening on the ground and how the…

Because of its unique national security challenges, Israel has a long history of developing highly effective, state-of-the-art defense technologies and capabilities. A prime example of Israeli military strength is the Iron Dome air defense system, which has been widely touted as the world’s best defense against missiles and rockets.

Israel puts death toll from Hamas attack at 1,200, while Palestinians say 974 killed after Israeli retaliation

Analyst calls Biden's interview with special counsel “what people do when they’re not hiding anything”

In the New York Times, some acknowledgements of failure of the sort we rarely see from US officials. It would be like leading retired American national security officials announcing in 2013 or so that they completely misunderstood the situation in Iraq for the past ten years. Yet for Israeli leaders,…

It's by perhaps Israel's best national security journalist, Haviv Rettig Gur: Theories abound about Hamas's reasons for the assault. Many suggested it was an Iranian-ordered disruption of Israeli-Saudi normalization. Others focused on internal Palestinian politics and suggested Hamas was positioning itself, even at the cost of an inevitable and crushing…

The final phase of negotiation of the European Union’s Media Freedom Act has begun after two different draft versions were adopted by the European Union Council and the European Parliament. The future law aims to promote EU-wide media pluralism without political interference.

India is increasing its collaboration with Australia in a bid to bolster its own security, a former national security advisor says.

Allegations that open-source chip technology aids Beijing's semiconductor goals intensify US-China tech rivalry.