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News Articles: Hamas

This undated photo provided by the Hostages Families Forum shows Avraham Munder, who was held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza. On Tuesday, Kibbutz Nir Oz announced Munder died while in Hamas captivity.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it recovered 6 hostages' bodies in Gaza

The Israeli military recovered the bodies of six hostages taken to Gaza in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Hamas says some captives have been killed and wounded in Israeli airstrikes.

August 20, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Basem Naim, a leader in the politburo of Palestinian militant group Hamas, photographed in Doha, Qatar, in July.

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  • Middle East

A Hamas leader says they will give up governing Gaza, but won’t lay down arms

Basem Naim, a leader in Hamas’ politburo, met with NPR in Qatar for an interview about the war with Israel, prospects for a cease-fire and how the Palestinian group now views its Oct. 7 attack.

August 16, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
People look for salvageable items following an Israeli raid in Rafah's al-Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip, June 29.

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  • World

What to know about Thursday's Gaza cease-fire talks

The new round of talks to end the Gaza war will be based on the three-phase proposal President Biden laid out in May. Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. are serving as mediators between Israel and Hamas.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Daniel Estrin
Hamas' Yahya Sinwar chairs a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, April 13, 2022.

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  • Middle East

Hamas names Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as its new top leader

Hamas says it has chosen its local leader in Gaza to take over as the Palestinian militant group's new top political leader worldwide, following last week's assassination of the previous leader in Iran.

August 06, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
People await their flights at the Beirut International Airport departure hall on Monday. Urgent calls grew for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon, which would be on the front line of a regional war, as Iran and its allies readied their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel.

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  • Middle East

War fears and flight cancellations in Lebanon send travelers and residents scrambling

The U.S. and other governments issued Lebanon travel advisories and some airlines stopped flying there, in anticipation of an escalation of fighting after assassinations in Iran and Beirut.

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on July 13 in which the Israeli military claim they killed the head of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif.

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  • World

Israel confirms it killed Hamas military commander in a July airstrike

Israel's military says the commander of Hamas is dead. The announcement comes following a series of assassinations of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders in the region.

August 01, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Israeli security forces and medics transport casualties along with local residents, at a site where a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights area on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

A rocket hit Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, after Israel struck a Gaza school

A rocket has hit a sports complex filled with children playing soccer in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights region Saturday afternoon, on the same day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a school building and killed dozens.

July 27, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1948 Altalena affair, at Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv on June 18.

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  • Middle East

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu can expect a mixed reception as he addresses Congress

The Israeli leader speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Republicans are strongly supportive of Israel, while Democrats are increasingly critical.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Myre and
  • Barbara Sprunt
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield (center) votes during a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at U.N. headquarters on Monday. The Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution supporting a cease-fire plan in Gaza.

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  • World

The U.N. Security Council endorses U.S. cease-fire plan to end the war in Gaza

The council voted 14-0 to support President Biden’s step-by-step plan for a cease-fire, an exchange of hostages and prisoners and an end to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

June 10, 2024
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen
 Palestinians grieve relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an encampment for displaced people on Sunday, May 26, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

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  • Middle East

An Israeli airstrike killed 45 Palestinians in an encampment for displaced people

The Israeli military said it killed two Hamas militant leaders in the strike but Palestinian health officials say dozens of civilians who had sought shelter in an encampment were killed and injured.

May 27, 2024
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi and
  • Anas Baba
Passersby observe the photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip that are plastered to the walls of a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Israel recovers the bodies of 3 hostages

The three were identified as Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Yitzhak Gelernter. Israel's military said they had been killed by Hamas militants when they attacked a music festival on Oct. 7.

May 17, 2024
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By:
  • James Hider
A woman mourns as she carries the shrouded body of a child killed following overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 6.

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  • World

Why the U.N. revised the numbers of women and children killed in Gaza

Here's a closer look at the United Nations' breakdown of casualties. The overall total of more than 35,000 Palestinians killed since Oct. 7, based on Gaza Health Ministry figures, has not declined.

May 15, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
A Palestinian boy sits near the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli strike in Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

In Gaza, a hidden threat could kill Palestinians even after a cease-fire

The United Nations says 7,500 metric tons of unexploded ordnance litter the Gaza Strip. The U.N. says it could take 14 years to dispose of these dangers.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Anas Baba
Palestinians pile their belongings on a vehicle as it drives to safer areas in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

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  • News

Israel expands evacuation orders in Rafah as aid groups struggle to prepare

Israel's military issued new evacuation orders in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, forcing even more Palestinians to relocate on Saturday ahead of a likely expanded ground operation there.

May 11, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Vincent Ni
Makeshift tents for displaced Palestinians at a temporary camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 3.

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  • Middle East

A Gaza cease-fire deal hangs in the balance, as Israel begins striking eastern Rafah

Hamas said it accepted a proposal for a cease-fire. Israel responded that the deal didn't meet its requirements and announced it was pushing ahead with an assault in Rafah.

May 06, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer,
  • Aya Batrawy,
  • and 1 more
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