A collection of 25 interviews with residents of the Gaza Strip—produced as animations to protect the subjects—Whispered in Gaza attempts to portray the attitudes toward Hamas of those who actually live under its yoke. Unlike their compatriots occasionally interviewed by major media outlets, these Gazans had a chance to express themselves away from the ears of minders and without fear of reprisals. One interviewee spoke for many when he said of Hamas, “They exploit us under the pretext of resistance.” Joseph Braude, who played a leading role in the project, discusses its content and impact with Stacey Roman. (Video, 31 minutes. A longer summary can be found at the link below.)

Israel will likely respond directly against Iran after yesterday’s attack, and has made known that it will calibrate its retaliation based not on the extent of the damage, but on the scale of the attack. The specifics are anyone’s guess, but Edward Luttwak has a suggestion, put forth in an article published just hours before the missile barrage: cut off Tehran’s ability to send money and arms to Shiite Arab militias.

In practice, most of this cash comes from a single source: oil. . . . In other words, the flow of dollars that sustains Israel’s enemies, and which has caused so much trouble to Western interests from the Syrian desert to the Red Sea, emanates almost entirely from the oil loaded onto tankers at the export terminal on Khark Island, a speck of land about 25 kilometers off Iran’s southern coast. Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his recent speech to the UN General Assembly that Israel’s “long arm” can reach them too. Indeed, Khark’s location in the Persian Gulf is relatively close. At 1,516 kilometers from Israel’s main airbase, it’s far closer than the Houthis’ main oil import terminal at Hodeida in Yemen—a place that was destroyed by Israeli jets in July, and attacked again [on Sunday].