Since the most recent conflict started, Hezbollah has launched rockets into Israel, provoking counterattacks targeting Hezbollah positions that have been established in the hills around these usually quiet Christian agricultural villages along the border.

The rule of international law, and even more, a basic commitment to human dignity, both demand something more than the meeting of terror with terror.

Throughout past two decades, America's editors have repeatedly called on political leaders to envision a future in which Israelis and Palestinians can flourish side by side.

The al-Ahli Arab hospital was a sanctuary, a holy place, a home to hundreds of Palestinians; it's now in ruins as a result of the ongoing war in Gaza.

Today on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with Olivier Poquillon, O.P., who oversaw the reconstruction of the Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq, destroyed by ISIS 2014.

It is hard to see how, at the present moment, either Gaza or Israel could possibly meet the traditional criteria of just war theory.