Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced ...

In 1948, the UN partition plan did not deliver a peaceful transition — it triggered a war that rapidly tore apart Palestine and reshaped the Middle East. As Britain withdrew, local fighting escalated ...

Yusuf Abu Hamam’s life sits at the intersection of two wars separated by 78 years but tied together by the same outcome: ...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — As a 4-year-old, Ghalia Abu Moteir was driven to live in a tent in Khan Younis after her family fled their home in what’s now Israel, escaping advancing Israeli forces.

At age 89, Palestinian Liga Jabr remembers how conflict uprooted her family when she was a child. Now, 75 years later, she says the war raging in Gaza is even worse. "This war is harder than any of ...

(JTA) – The story of Israel’s 1948 war for independence is told through the eyes of one kibbutz in “Image of Victory,” a new Netflix film that’s being billed as the most expensive Israeli movie ever.

JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel's call for the evacuation of half of Gaza's population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is ...

Many see the creation of the modern-day state of Israel as part of a historical narrative, in which Israeli independence was a reaction to the Holocaust. “The catastrophe which recently befell the ...

(JTA) — Israel’s government has lashed out at Netflix over a new Jordanian movie that they say disparages the country’s military and their actions in the War of 1948 that led to Israel’s independence.

(JNS) Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, ...