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News Articles: Israel-Hamas war

A view of damage at a residential building following an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia after Israel and Gaza reached a ceasefire deal, in the north of Gaza City, on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel's security cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal

Israel's security cabinet has voted to approve a ceasefire deal to end the fighting in Gaza. Full cabinet approval is expected later today.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • James Hider and
  • Jerome Socolovsky
Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a cease-fire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel and Hamas may be on the verge of a ceasefire. Here's what we know right now

Negotiators in Qatar are close to a ceasefire deal that sees an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian detainees, a six-week pause in fighting and eventual troop withdrawal from Gaza.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Jerome Socolovsky and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Children play with water in springtime outside a temporary classroom built for the evacuated residents of Kibbutz Be'eri. With over 90 residents killed and 30 taken hostage last Oct. 7, the kibbutz was one of the hardest hit communities that day. Nine hundred of its residents evacuated to a Dead Sea hotel and worked to maintain the unity of the community and build educational frameworks to help the children of the kibbutz recover from the trauma they went through.

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  • World

How an Israeli community helped its children heal from trauma after the Oct. 7 attack

Kibbutz Be'eri was hit hard in the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Survivors were evacuated to a hotel, where they worked together to create programs to help their children recover from trauma.

December 23, 2024
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By:
  • Alon Avital
Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Feb. 16.

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  • Middle East

Amnesty International accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, which Israel strongly denies

Amnesty International says Israel has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians in its war with Hamas, by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure and preventing aid deliveries.

December 05, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Amal Abu Khatleh, a nurse at a Gaza hospital that admitted an unidentified infant last November, took the baby in and gave her the name Malak, meaning angel. Abu Khatleh holds Malak on her first birthday in October, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip.

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  • World

An unknown infant was rushed to a Gaza hospital. A nurse gave her a name, and a home

The newborn, found by rescuers after an Israeli attack, was rushed to a hospital. Nurse Amal Abu Khatleh gave her the name Malak, meaning angel. She is raising the baby until relatives can be found.

December 05, 2024
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By:
  • Abu Bakr Bashir
A teacher leads a class at a school for girls administered but the main U.N. agency for Palestinian aid, UNRWA, in Qalandia refugee camp, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Nov. 14. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5205331/israel-palestinians-unrwa-ban-west-bank"target="_blank"   >Click here for the fully story. </a>

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  • Middle East

As Israel bans UNRWA, Palestinians stand to lose schools and clinics, not only in Gaza

Israel is severing ties with the main United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians. With the focus largely on Gaza, the move also threatens key services in the occupied West Bank.

December 03, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
The International Criminal Court building is pictured in The Hague, Netherlands, on Thursday, when arrest warrants were issued for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant of Israel, and Hamas leader Muhammad Deif.

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  • World

What is the ICC and can it really arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?

The ICC also issued warrants for Yoav Gallant, former Israeli defense minister, and Hamas leader Muhammad Deif. But it doesn't have an enforcement mechanism and relies on states to make the arrests.

November 21, 2024
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
In an image taken from video, police are seen escorting Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team supporters to the metro station, leading them to the Ajax stadium, after pro-Palestinian supporters marched near the stadium, in Amsterdam, Thursday.

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  • World

Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam

Soccer fans from Israel were attacked in Amsterdam in what the Dutch prime minister called "antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens."

November 08, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx and
  • Teri Schultz
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) and Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi attend a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 last year that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on Oct. 27, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Benjamin Netanyahu fires Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, replaces him with Israel Katz

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has replaced his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, with Israel Katz, who was the foreign minister. The surprise move has sparked protests across Israel.

November 05, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Raneem Hijazi holds her baby, Mariam, on her lap in her wheelchair, as Hijazi's mother-in-law, Soha Sakallah (standing), helps her.

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  • Middle East

A mother and baby from Gaza are reunited 11 months after being separated at birth

After an Israeli airstrike left mom-to-be Raneem Hizaji badly injured, doctors performed an emergency C-section. It took nearly a year for mom and baby to be reunited.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny,
  • Fatima Al-Kassab,
  • and 1 more
A Palestinian girl searches in the rubble of a building after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

An Israeli airstrike in north Gaza killed dozens of people, as parliament bans UNRWA

An Israeli airstrike on a building in northern Gaza overnight killed at least 60 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Residents and members of a civil defense team conduct search and rescue operations after the Israeli army targeted Asma School, run by the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Strip on Sunday. The wounded, including children, were brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The bodies of those who lost their lives were also brought to the hospital.

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  • Middle East

Israel awaits the U.S. election before a Gaza cease-fire, an official says

Egypt has a new cease-fire proposal amid Israel’s bombardment and siege of northern Gaza. Israel is discussing the proposal but waiting to see who is elected U.S. president, an official told NPR.

October 28, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Jaffa is a district in southern Tel Aviv, Israel, where Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jewish Israelis live and work. But the atmosphere has changed since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack in Israel.

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  • Middle East

Many Palestinian citizens of Israel live in fear amid a backlash after Hamas' attack

Palestinian citizens of Israel say they live in an atmosphere of fear, facing a backlash from Israeli society and arrests by authorities since the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel last year.

October 28, 2024
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Yahya Sinwar, a founder of Hamas' military wing, talks during a rally in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, in 2011.

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  • World

What does Yahya Sinwar's death mean for the Middle East?

What does the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar mean for the war in Gaza and the region beyond, and will it revive the chances of cease-fire and the release of the remaining hostages?

October 18, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Willem Marx
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar looks on as Palestinian Hamas supporters take part in an anti-Israel rally over tension in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Gaza City, Oct. 1, 2022.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza

The Israeli military says three militants were killed in an operation in Gaza and intelligence agents are examining whether Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was one of them.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • James Hider and
  • Daniel Estrin
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