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The Latest: Israel-Hamas War Resources

  • Writer: Track Two
    Track Two
  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 10 min read

Damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)



This post includes the latest of our resource curation on the Israel-Hamas War, beginning on August 28, 2024. For past resources, click the link below:



The resources included in this list are not original to Track Two and do not in any way reflect any position on the events and individuals described and alluded to. Track Two attempts to present an aggregation of news media that reflects a variety of perspectives just as it informs its audiences of relevant coverage of certain international issues, including the Ukraine War.



UPDATED RESOURCES - December 18, 2024


  • 'Doing Nothing Guarantees a Future Without Hope' Say Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists (Haaretz)

  • The Day After Assad (Foreign Affairs)

  • The Middle East’s Dangerous New Normal (Foreign Affairs)

  • Assad’s Fall Is the Middle East’s 1989 (Foreign Policy)

  • How Israel’s regional war contributed to the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria (The Conversation)

  • Netanyahu’s War on the Israeli Media (Foreign Policy)

  • Israel government’s boycott of left-wing Haaretz newspaper is understandable for an administration in wartime (The Conversation)

  • Friday essay: ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides (The Conversation)

  • Analysis | From Mount Hermon's Peaks, Netanyahu Plots His Vision of a Greater Israel (Haaretz)

  • Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has endured (Responsible Statecraft)

  • Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th (The New Yorker)

  • The political eclipses the personal in Jasleen Kaur’s Turner Prize win (The Conversation)

  • Analysis | U.S. Sees a Dramatic Change in the Middle East as New Regional Balance Tilts in Israel's Favor (Haaretz)

  • Hezbollah Is Trying to Spin Loss as Victory (Foreign Policy)

  • The UN Has Generations of Palestinian Blood on Its Hands (The Nation)

  • Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism (The New Yorker)

  • Hamas – hemmed in and isolated – finds itself with few options for the day after the Gaza war (The Conversation)



REFLECTIONS FROM THE TRACK TWO NETWORK



VIDEOS


A Conversation with Efraim Halevy and Ami Ayalon | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


Dissent, Protest, and Palestine-Israel: Restrictions on Civic Space During Violent Conflict | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


"The Israeli project is dying" | One on One with Jordan's Former Foreign Minister, Marwan Muasher


The Middle East After Sinwar | Foreign Policy


Explosive Triangle: Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah in Lebanon


Virtual Media Briefing: Update on Hamas and the Gaza Conflict


One Year On: The World After Oct. 7 | Foreign Policy


Gaza's Intensifying Humanitarian Catastrophe: Expert Perspectives | Carnegie Endowment


International Models for Governing Gaza | Carnegie Endowment


Update on Gaza: Can Ceasefire Talks Succeed? | Wilson Center


A Future for Palestinian Statehood? | Foreign Policy


Drop Site News Subscriber AMA Livestream | Drop Site News


PREVIOUS RESOURCES

PEACEBUILDING

  • Leaders of Arab-Jewish Movement Standing Together Detained at Anti-war Protest in Tel Aviv (Haaretz)

  • In Brief: Why the Gaza Peace Talks Have So Far Failed (War on the Rocks)

  • A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists (The New Yorker)

  • Gaza war: a ceasefire depends on a leap of faith from both sides – Northern Ireland showed us how (The Conversation)

  • Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists Meet With Pope to Share Their Dream of a Shared Future (Haaretz)

  • Middle East student dialogue: As an expert in deep conflict, what I’ve learned about making conversation possible (The Conversation)

  • Israel-Gaza: how opinion polls used in Northern Ireland could pave a way to peace (The Conversation) 

  • Israeli peace activists are more anguished than ever − in a movement that has always been diverse and divided, with differing visions of ‘peace’ (The Conversation)

  • A Jewish-Arab Partnership Is Building a Young New Peace Camp in Israel (Haaretz) 

ENDING THE WAR & MAINTAINING THE PEACE

THE UKRAINE WAR & ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR INTERSECT

REFUGEES, EMIGRES, & DISPLACEMENT

  • How 100,000 Palestinians Are Surviving in Egypt Without Refugee Status (Foreign Policy)

DOMESTIC: ISRAEL

  • Can the War in Gaza Be Won? (Foreign Affairs)

  • The Israeli Army Chief Who Became a Road-blocking Anti-government Protester (Haaretz)

  • Why No Real Antiwar Movement Has Developed in Israel (The New Yorker)

  • The War of Revival? Why Naming the War Matters for Israel (Haaretz)

  • Israel’s Hidden War (Foreign Affairs)

  • Israeli Military Joins in on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins (The Intercept)

  • The Fight for a New Israel (Foreign Affairs)

  • A Year After October 7th, a Kibbutz Survives (The New Yorker)

  • How the Israeli settlers movement shaped modern Israel (The Conversation)

  • Analysis | Lack of Faith in Israel's State Watchdog Leaves Explosive Gaza War Reports in the Drawer (Haaretz)

  • The Radicalization of Israel’s Military (The New Yorker)

  • The Time Has Come: Netanyahu Must Free the Spirit of the Israeli People (Haaretz)

  • The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy (Foreign Policy)

DOMESTIC: PALESTINE

  • Gaza’s cultural heritage has been devastated by the conflict with Israel – this is how we’re documenting the damage (The Conversation)

  • With Gaza’s Education System in Ruins, Parents Take Matters into Their Own Hands (The Intercept)

  • ‘Stripped of our human dignity’: What it means to be hungry in Gaza (Al Jazeera)

  • Islamic scholar’s ‘fatwa’ criticising October 7 attack echoes growing unhappiness in Gaza towards Hamas (The Conversation)

  • The Palestinian Struggle Needs to be Reimagined (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

  • The Aid Workers Who Risk Their Lives to Bring Relief to Gaza (The New Yorker)

  • Israel bans the last lifeline of aid to Palestinians (Responsible Statecraft)

  • Palestine’s economy teeters on the brink after a year of war and unrelenting destruction (The Conversation)

  • Israel’s ban on UNRWA continues a pattern of politicizing Palestinian refugee aid – and puts millions of lives at risk (The Conversation)

  • Gazans Divided After Hamas Chief Sinwar's Death, Hoping for Leader Who'll End Suffering (Haaretz)

  • Gaza: polio vaccination drive faces hurdles despite a pause in the conflict (The Conversation)

HEZBOLLAH & LEBANON

  • Tehran's Coffers and Hezbollah's Grip Over Lebanon May Upend the Cease-fire With Israel (Haaretz)

  • The Price Lebanon Is Paying for the Hezbollah-Israel War (The New Yorker)

  • What the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire means for the region – expert Q&A (The Conversation)

  • The First Hours of an Uncertain Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire (The New Yorker) 

  • Lebanon’s Day After (Foreign Affairs)  

  • Targeted Killings Won’t Destroy Hezbollah (Foreign Affairs)  

  • Netanyahu Considering Cease-fire in Lebanon, but No End in Sight for Israel's War in Gaza (Haaretz)

  • Even if Removed From Israel's Border, Hezbollah Will Keep Control of Lebanon's Politics (Haaretz)

  • Israel Brings Its Gaza Strategy to Lebanon (Foreign Affairs)

  • What Happens to Hamas and Hezbollah Now That Their Leaders Have Been Killed? (The New Yorker)

  • Is Southern Lebanon the Next Gaza? (Foreign Policy)

  • Who is Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah commander targeted by Israel? (Al Jazeera)

  • What will the Lebanon pager attacks mean for Israel, Hezbollah and Iran? Expert Q&A (The Conversation)

  • Wider war closer after Israel's attack on Lebanon (Responsible Statecraft)

  • In Israel, some want war with Hezbollah, others are worried (Al Jazeera)

  • Latest Attacks Bring Hezbollah – and Iran – to the Brink of War With Israel (Haaretz)

  • Alone at the Top: Will Nasrallah Go to War With Israel as Hezbollah's Top Brass Crumbles? (Haaretz)

  • Hezbollah Has Retaliated for Israel’s Assassination of Its Senior Commander Fouad Shukr (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

  • Can Israel Really Deter Hezbollah? (Foreign Policy)

  • Analysis | After Thwarted Attack, It's Back to Wartime 'Normal' for Israel and Hezbollah (Haaretz)

  • 'They Only Defend Tel Aviv': Israeli Northerners Are Furious After Hezbollah Attack (Haaretz)

  • Israel's Preemptive Strike in Lebanon Leaves It Sinking in the Same Strategic Mud (Haaretz)

IRAN

INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS & RAMIFICATIONS

  • The Off-Ramp Runs Through Riyadh (Foreign Policy)

  • Is Israel expanding territorial control toward Syria? (Responsible Statecraft)

  • Israel’s Trump Delusion (Foreign Affairs)

  • The Saudi Solution? (Foreign Affairs)

  • Universities should not silence research and speech on Palestine (The Conversation)

  • Why the EU’s stance on Israel is starting to change (The Conversation)

  • How Biden Can Salvage Middle East Peace—and His Legacy (Foreign Affairs) 

  • Biden Didn’t Really Try to End the War in Gaza (Foreign Policy)

  • Hamas Delegation in Cairo to Discuss 'Day After' in Gaza, Not Hostage Deal (Haaretz)

  • What have Trump administration nominees said about Israel and its wars? (Al Jazeera)

  • Mike Huckabee, in His Own Words: What Trump's Incoming U.S. Ambassador Really Thinks About Israel, Palestine and 'Almighty God' (Haaretz)

  • Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’: UN committee (Al Jazeera)

  • Is Israel committing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza? (Al Jazeera)

  • Israel Has Failed to Meet U.S. Gaza Aid Demands, Humanitarian Groups Report (Foreign Policy)

  • Inside Israel's War on Foreign Activists Aiding Palestinians in the West Bank (Haaretz)

  • Beyond Ukraine and Gaza: five consequences of overlooking other conflicts (The Conversation)

  • 'Trump Will Be Generous to Netanyahu': The Arab World Sees No Hope in U.S. Election (Haaretz)

  • The Ever-shifting Middle Eastern Kaleidoscope Doesn't Care Who Is in the White House (Haaretz)

  • Gaza: can the UN suspend Israel over its treatment of Palestinians? It’s complicated, but yes (The Conversation)

  • Amid Wave of Antisemitism, Norway's Jews Feel Vulnerable and Betrayed (Haaretz)

  • EU “Bending” Rules To Allow Trade With Israeli Settlements, Leaked Analysis Shows (The Intercept)

  • How the U.S.-Israel Relationship Actually Works (The New Yorker)

  • Symposium: Will US-Israel relations survive the last year? (Responsible Statecraft)

  • America Needs a New Strategy to Avert Even Greater Catastrophe in the Middle East (Foreign Affairs)

  • More Wars, a Failed State, and a Step Back by the United States (Foreign Policy)

  • More Than 10,000 Incidents of Antisemitism in U.S. Tracked by ADL Since Oct. 7 (Haaretz)

  • America Has More Latitude With Israel Than It Thinks (Foreign Affairs)

  • Fulbright Scholars Demand That the Program Speak Out on Palestine (The Nation)

  • Gaza update: US politics and the fate of Palestinians increasingly bound up together (The Conversation)

  • US is unlikely to stop giving military aid to Israel − because it benefits from it (The Conversation)

ISRAELI HOSTAGE CRISIS

  • Netanyahu 'Sacrificed My Brother on the Altar of His Coalition': Israelis Protest for a Hostage Release Deal (Haaretz)

  • A Way Forward in the Israeli Hostage Crisis (Foreign Policy)

  • Grief and Fury in Israel (The New Yorker)

WAR AND THE DIGITAL SPACE

  • Al Jazeera Documentary Uses Israeli Soldiers' Social Media Footage to Accuse Them of War Crimes (Haaretz)

  • 'Inseparable From the War': Despite Failure of Israeli Social Media Influence Companies With Hamas, a New Industry Is Emerging (Haaretz)

  • As Digital Shadow War Intensifies, Israeli Army Brass Is in Misinformation Crosshairs (Haaretz)

  • Report: IDF using Amazon cloud to store intel on 'everyone' in Gaza (Responsible Statecraft)

JOURNALISM

  • A massacre within a massacre: How journalists reporting on Gaza deaths are being targeted (RT)

  • Rationalizing the Horrors of Israel’s War in Gaza (The New Yorker)

  • A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard (The Nation)

  • Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah (Al Jazeera)

THE ARTS OF WAR

  • Israeli Artist Ella Littwitz No Longer Believes in a Global Art Community – and Hopes 'This Place Is Still Ours' (Haaretz)

  • The Occupied Will Also Write History (The Nation)

GENERAL ANALYSIS

  • World Central Kitchen Pauses Operations in Gaza After Aid Workers Killed in Israeli Strike (Haaretz)

  • Sinwar’s Death Does Not Mean Breakthrough in Israel-Hamas War (Council on Foreign Relations)

  • Sinwar Is Dead, but Hamas Will Survive (Foreign Affairs)




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