Hamas Threatens Hostages Over Israeli Operation Against Rafah
Hamas threatened on February 11 to call off negotiations over freeing the hostages if Israeli forces advance against the Palestinian terrorist group’s “last bastion” in Rafah....
Sinai Peninsula
Egypt Claims It Destroyed Hamas Tunnels, But Smuggling Continues
Israeli claims that terrorists are using cross-border tunnels between Egypt and Gaza to smuggle weapons into the strip are “baseless,” an Egyptian official said on January 23....
Flash Briefs
Armed group in the Sinai declares it will fight Israel
An ostensible Sinai-based armed group calling itself Kitaib al-Farouq (KF) has recently released a statement asserting its intention to carry out offensive operations against Israel as a response...
Op-eds
Israel’s Motion Offense
REVIEW: ‘The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces’ by Edward N. Luttwak and Eitan Shamir
Op-eds
U.S. Airlift of Gaza Aid Arrives in Egypt
Latest Developments A U.S. military plane carrying more than 54,000 pounds of humanitarian aid for Gaza landed in Egypt on November 28, the first of three American airlifts scheduled for the coming...
Flash Briefs
If Egypt supports Gazans, it should offer them temporary housing
Excerpt As Israel ramps up its fight against Hamas in Gaza, life is going to become increasingly intolerable for innocent Palestinian civilians in the Strip. Now is the time for Egypt — alongside...
Op-eds
Shifa Neonatal Unit Evacuated, Egypt to Take Patients
The most vulnerable ward of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital was evacuated on November 19, as Israeli forces deepened searches for Hamas terrorist assets at the site. Al-Shifa administrators...
Flash Briefs
Hamas Attacks Israeli Soldiers as the IDF Prepares Safe Passage for Gazans on Main Highway
Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli forces working to provide a safe passage for Gaza residents to flee south from Gaza City on November 4. The attack came after Israel Defense Forces...
Flash Briefs
Egypt Opens Its Border to Gaza Wounded, Foreigners
Egypt opened up its border with the Gaza Strip on November 1 to admit wounded Palestinians and foreign passport-holders fleeing the Hamas-Israel war. Hundreds of people crossed the...
Flash Briefs
Attacks on Egyptian Coast Suggest Gaza War Spillover
A drone and an unidentified projectile struck Egyptian towns on the Red Sea coast on October 27 in an apparent regional spillover of the Israel-Hamas war. Six people were injured...
Flash Briefs
Hamas used Iranian-produced weapons in October 7 terror attack in Israel
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recovered Iranian-produced weapons used by Hamas inside Israel during the Oct. 7 terror attack. While many of the weapons used in the attack were manufactured in...
Op-eds
Israel war: Why wouldn’t Egypt want Gazan refugees?
As Israel prepares to invade Gaza to destroy the terrorist group Hamas, Jerusalem is calling on civilians living in the coastal enclave to seek refuge in Egypt. Cairo,...
Op-eds
Report from the Gaza Front: A New Playbook
I spent the first days of the war on the Gaza border, mostly near Kibbutz Zikim. On the fifth day, October 11, I went to the Gaza border city of Sderot and spent time in the community, speaking with locals...
Op-eds
Egypt Signals Openness on Its Gaza Border as Crisis Mounts
Egypt signaled a measure of willingness on October 12 for its border with the Gaza Strip to become an outlet for Gaza residents seeking refuge. As fighting raged into a sixth day...
Flash Briefs
Egyptian Kills Two Israeli Tourists and Local Guide, but Cairo Remains Silent
The day after Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel, an Egyptian security officer — apparently acting on his own — killed two Israeli tourists and their local tour guide in Alexandria. The action...
Policy Briefs
Israel Missed Its Moment
It might have had a chance to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions a few years ago, but the Middle East has changed.
Op-eds
How Cairo’s Embassy In Tel Aviv Can Contribute To A Warmer Peace With Israel
There are very few things about which Cairo’s elite and its Muslim Brotherhood critics can agree. But last week, both sides cheered for a 23-year-old Egyptian border guard named Mohamed Salah who murdered...
Op-eds
Why Egypt’s Sisi should go to Israel
An Egyptian border guard shot and killed three Israeli soldiers at a Sinai border post on Saturday. The incident has shocked the Israeli public. And it has cast some doubt on the peace agreement between Egypt and...
Op-eds
Egyptian border policeman kills three Israeli troops
An Egyptian policeman killed three Israeli troops on Saturday before being shot dead in a rare border infiltration that the countries are jointly investigating. The assailant first opened fire on...
Flash Briefs
Why Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rockets Kill So Many Palestinians
Roughly 200 Gaza rockets misfired in the recent conflict, killing at least 15 civilians. So why are Islamic Jihad’s projectiles so fatally unreliable? And what are Iran’s plans for its proxy?