Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.

Those claims continued to dog Israel in the second year of its conflict, as civilian casualties in Gaza climbed, mass hunger spread and the IDF repeatedly forced large numbers of Palestinians to relocate. As Israel opened aid routes in July, the IDF said in a statement that that there is "no starvation in Gaza."

As Israelis come together to mourn those killed two years ago by Hamas, the sounds of the ongoing war in Gaza reverberate over a solemn memorial.

A bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers failed in the Senate. Last night: In a 51-48 vote, the Senate rejected legislation that would require the president to seek congressional authorization to carry out military strikes on cartels.

There is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families.

Iran has officially enacted a sweeping new espionage law imposing harsher measures — including the death penalty — for collaboration with Israel, as rights activists decry what they say is a new campaign of arbitrary arrests and deeper repression.

Hundreds of students from high schools across Seattle, stretching to Issaquah and Renton, walked out on the two-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war. Around 200 students, including some college students from Bellevue to Bellingham, marched in protest of the war and in support of Gaza Tuesday, according to The Seattle Times.

Israel assesses that Hamas may not be able to find and return all the remaining dead hostages in Gaza, according to three Israeli sources, a fact that may complicate efforts to reach a deal to end the war.