1) At the JCFA, Yoni Ben Menachem explains ‘How Hamas Plans to Maintain Power in the Gaza Strip’.
“Senior security officials say Hamas has already formulated a clear strategy for preserving its rule in Gaza, both militarily and civically.
According to them, Hamas is not troubled by the establishment of the so-called Technocrats Committee that is supposed to manage civilian life in the Strip. From Hamas’s perspective, the committee poses no real threat to its authority. Its twelve members are residents of Gaza with families living there, which means Hamas can, at any given moment, exert pressure on them and on their relatives to achieve its objectives.”
2) At the INSS, Batsheva Neuer and Ofir Dayan analyse ‘Hamas’s Outreach to the International Arena’.
“This article examines the document that Hamas published in December 2025 summarizing the war and, in particular, the intensifying battle of narratives between Hamas and Israel. Hamas addresses three target audiences: the Palestinian and Arab public, Israel, and the international community. The article focuses especially on Hamas’s appeal to Western audiences, primarily in English, and its use of Western concepts, such as referring to Hamas terrorists as “freedom fighters.” Hamas also employs gaslighting tactics and makes sophisticated use of journalists and social media influencers to shift blame from the organization to Israel and to fuel human rights–based discourse against it.”
3) At The Cypher Brief, Toby Dershowitz and Asher Boiskin ask ‘Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?’.
“A few weeks ago, Al Jazeera named Google Cloud as its primary technology provider for “The Core,” a sweeping program designed to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its production process. The move, which further deepened the relationship between the two companies, should sound alarm bells for policymakers and anyone concerned with the accuracy, credibility, and transparency of the news media and information space, which impacts nearly every aspect of society.”
4) At the ICT, Daniel Haberfeld analyses ‘Iran’s Information Warfare During the December 2025 – January 2026 Protests and Its Continued Influence on Israel and the West’.
“The broader implication of this study is that information warfare has become an integral component of what can be described as the “new war”, a conflict environment in which cognitive influence, narrative dominance, and perception management are as consequential as conventional military force. Iran’s conduct during the December 2025–January 2026 protests demonstrates that narrative control and foreign influence operations function as strategic tools of regime survival, not merely as propaganda efforts.”
5) At Spiked, Andrew Fox addresses ‘The shameful disinformation over the Gaza death toll’.
“The debate over the death toll was never about whether tens of thousands have died in Gaza. Everyone agrees the war has been devastating. The real dispute, both then and now, concerns the composition of that death toll, the credibility of its sources, and how many of the dead were Hamas combatants or victims of Hamas’s own actions, rather than civilians killed by the IDF. In addressing these questions, the media’s performance has been appalling.”
6) In a Jerusalem Journal podcast, Avi Mayer and Nadar Eyal discuss ‘Qatar’s Global War on Israel’.
“Taken together, Qatar’s role in shaping global hostility toward Israel — and its remarkable success in leveraging its unfathomable wealth to advance its interests — has proven strikingly effective in fostering negative perceptions of the Jewish state and in undermining its legitimacy at a moment when Israel has been fighting for its very existence.
In this episode of the Jerusalem Journal Podcast, Eyal joins us to discuss how Israel identified Qatar as being behind this global defamation campaign, why the emirate has chosen to target Israel now, how it has cultivated influence in the United States and around the world, and what Israel can do to fight back.”
