But at the same time there is also life insurance in the idea of sacrifice. It is not the act of sacrifice that redeems, but the love, the will, the idea behind it.

Heavy fighting was reported in Khan Yunis, Jabalia, Shejaia, Al-Safatawi, Sheikh Radwan and Beit Hanun • IDF releases the names of three more soldiers KIA in Gaza.

I salute the young generation of Israeli – and how! I just have to get this off my chest.

Mother reaches out to soldiers who mistakenly killed her son in the Gaza Strip.

UN Security Council vote on Gaza ceasefire again delayed after it became clear the US would veto even a toned-down resolution.

Is there anywhere else in the world where the United States has said that refugees must be forced to stay in a war zone rather than find safety?

IDF Gaza death toll rises to 133 • Islamic Jihad releases hostage video • 1,500 tunnel shafts and underground passages exposed.

Ahmed Kahlot, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, told Israeli interrogators he was recruited into the terror group as a lieutenant colonel.

As in nature, the wind can change in politics, too.