+972 Magazine

+972 Magazine
(Magazine)
+972 Magazine ; (Magazine)
Founder	• Lisa Goldman; • Ami Kaufman; • Dimi Reider; • Noam Sheizaf

+972 Magazine is a left-wing news and opinion online magazine, established in August 2010 by a group of four Israeli writers in Tel Aviv.

Background

Noam Sheizaf, a co-founder and the +972 chief executive officer, said they wanted to express a new and "mostly young voice which would take part in the international debate regarding Israel and Palestine". They named the website in reference to the 972 international dialling code, which is shared by Israel and the Palestinian territories.

+972 Magazine articles are written primarily in English to reach an international audience.

2025 articles

Carbon dioxide asphyxiation

On 6 February 2025, +972 published "Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground":

The Israeli army intensively bombarded residential areas in Gaza when it lacked intelligence on the exact location of Hamas commanders hiding underground, and intentionally weaponised toxic byproducts of bombs to suffocate militants in their tunnels, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call can reveal.
The investigation, based on conversations with 15 Israeli Military Intelligence and Shin Bet officers who have been involved in tunnel-targeting operations since October 7, exposes how this strategy aimed to compensate for the army’s inability to pinpoint targets in Hamas’ subterranean tunnel network.
The investigation also reveals how Israel has known for years that the use of bunker-buster bombs releases the lethal gas carbon monoxide as a byproduct, which can kill people inside a tunnel through asphyxiation even at a distance of hundreds of metres from the strike location. After discovering this by chance in 2017, the army first tested it as a strategy in Gaza in 2021, and employed it in its efforts to kill Hamas commanders after October 7. This way, the army could attack targets without knowing their precise location, and without having to rely on direct hits.
“The gas stays underground, and people suffocate,” Brig-Gen Guy Hazoot, the only source willing to be named, told +972 and Local Call. “We realised we could effectively target anyone underground using the Air Force’s bunker-buster bombs, which, even if they don’t destroy the tunnel, release gases that kill anyone inside. The tunnel then becomes a death trap.”^[1]

Long-term political change

On 3 January 2025, +972 published an article titled "What is the duty of the Israeli left in a time of genocide?"

Israeli leftists have been more divided and marginalised than ever since the October 7 assault, with joint Palestinian-Jewish struggle at a breaking point. Yet their sights remain set on long-term political change.^[2]