The day Hamas came: a report from an Israeli ...

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They fled round after round of gunfire, hid for hours and saved hundreds of lives. It is a rare <a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/10/13/how-one-kibbutz-defended-itself-from-hamas?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=di ...

As the retribution continues, the state has now cut off supplies to the Palestinian enclave, and America is sending military support to Binyamin Netanyahu. But how will <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/10/09/after-its-brutal-attack-hamas-is-calcul ...

After weeks of <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/11/22/israel-strikes-a-hostage-deal-but-promises-the-gaza-war-isnt-over?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_n ...

How does the Palestinian militant group justify the atrocities committed in Israel? Why has it done this? What does it plan to do with the hostages? In a conversation with Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior official, Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor-in-chief, presses for ...