Law, Power, and Justice

As it resumed airstrikes in Gaza, the Israeli military on Friday published online a detailed map of the territory divided into scores of small zones that it said would help Palestinian residents determine if they needed to “evacuate from specific places for their safety.”

The release of the map comes as Israel faces increasing international pressure, including from the United States, to curb the high civilian death toll in its war against Hamas, and suggests that Israeli forces are signaling an intention to operate in a less imprecise manner in what the military on Friday called “the next stage of the war.”