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Since the beginning of his political career, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, has campaigned on a promise that he is the only one who will keep the Jewish state safe. As Israelis head to the polls for their first election since the October7 Hamas attacks and the start of the war in Gaza, Netanyahu's strategy might be less effective. FRANCE 24's Gabrielle Nadler explains.
Israelis will vote Tuesday (October 27) in the first national elections since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack in what is widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership. He rejected ICC war crimes claims and denied corruption as national elections approach. Details by FRANCE 24's correspondent in Jerusalem, Noga Tarnopolsky.
As Israelis head to the polls for the first legislative election since Hamas's October 7 attacks, neither Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu's Likud party nor former army chief of staff Gadi #Eisenkot's Yashar party are likely to win a majority of seats in the #Knesset. Turns out, #Israel's Arab parties could have a say in the election's outcome.
The halt to commercial shipments, including fruit and winter clothing, cuts off a key source of critical supplies.
The former head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency on Wednesday sued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for defamation weeks before elections in a row over responsibility for Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack. Netanyahu, who polls show in a tight race to stay in power in the October 27 election, has been hammered by the opposition for failing to prevent the attack, the deadliest day in Israeli history. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports.
Bar and Netanyahu have traded blame over the Hamas-led attack, as elections in Israel loom.
Every day, Gazan mother Niyaha al-Masri spends six exhausting hours or more queueing at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family. It has been a year since a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was supposed to allow food to flood into the ruined territory, yet widespread hunger persists there.
Like hundreds of thousands of Israelis, Amihai will be of voting age for the first time since Hamas carried out its attack on October 7, 2023. When he casts his ballot this month, he has one priority above all -- security.
It’s been a week of vigils, protests and political upheaval – from Israel, where three years after the Hamas-led attacks, former hostages and mourners called for accountability over the failures of October 7th, as questions grow over the stalled path to peace in Gaza; to France, where mass demonstrations over chronic underfunding and poor conditions have drawn students, unions and hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets, just months ahead of a presidential election. In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has made the housing crisis the centrepiece of a high-stakes electoral gamble
Three years after the October 7 attack and on the eve of decisive elections for the Hebrew state, Israeli society is still traumatized and partly deaf to the war that Benjamin Netanyahu's government is leading in retaliation for Hamas' attack in the Gaza Strip. A conflict that has since spread throughout the Middle East region.
Three years after Hamas attacks on October 7, the eyes are now turning to Gaza. A fragile ceasefire had been in place for a year, but the Gaza Strip was struck every day, remained largely devastated and the population faced extremely difficult living conditions, including food and access to essential services. Analysis with Anne Corpet, international columnist in France 24.
Three years after Hamas attacks of October 7, the eyes are now turning towards Gaza. A fragile ceasefire had been in place for a year, but the Gaza Strip remained largely devastated and the population faced extremely difficult living conditions, including food and access to essential services. We refer to daily life in Gaza with Rami Abu Jamus, an independent journalist on the ground, who speaks of "Gasastrophe" and believes that "genocide is still ongoing", despite a decline in the level of bombings.
Israel commemorated on Wednesday the Hamas attacks on its territory on 7 October 2023, the memory of which weighs on the campaign of the general elections. Civilians and relatives of the victims gathered on the site of the Nova Electronic Music Festival, where 348 young people had been executed by Hamas, but also in Tel Aviv.
Following the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Israel launched an offensive with several stated objectives: to bring the hostages back, dismantle Hamas' military capabilities and ensure that Gaza could no longer pose a threat to Israel. Three years later, the least we can say is that the Palestinian enclave no longer has the same face.
Israel marked the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Wednesday with gatherings in tribute and renewed strikes on Gaza as political debate intensified ahead of elections. Gaza officials said strikes on the territory had killed five people despite a year-old ceasefire agreement.
For now, it's still Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel. In 2023, in the immediate aftermath of the country's worst day of bloodshed in its history, pundits predicted the quick demise of the right-wing prime minister. But on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Israel's still not reckoned with the security failures on the day, the root causes of the Hamas-led terror attack, the brutal war of vengeance that followed and above all, Netanyahu is still prime minister with a fair shot at re-election. Even if the Likud leader is voted out on October 27, his most serious election rivals don't exac
Memorial events have taken place in Israel on the third anniversary of the Hamas-led attack that sparked the devastating Gaza war.
Three years after the attack on 7 October 2023 in Israel, the most deadly Hamas attack in the country, commemorations were held throughout the day. The attack triggered a massive Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. This year's anniversary comes in a particularly tense political context as the parliamentary elections approach.
Three years after the October 7 attack, when Hamas militants killed at least 1,195 people in Israel – mostly civilians – the sites of the massacre near the Gaza border have become heavily visited memorials. They offer Israelis and Jews in the diaspora a place to honour those who were killed, as FRANCE 24’s Stéphane Amar reports.
