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News Articles: Israel-Hamas war

Hamas' Yahya Sinwar chairs a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, April 13, 2022.

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  • World

Who was Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar?

Yahya Sinwar is widely considered to have been the mastermind behind Hamas’ cross-border assault on Israel a year ago.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Willem Marx
Palestinians evacuate the Jabalia refugee camp and the Sheikh Radwan and Abu Iskandar neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel threatens to starve out northern Gaza, U.N. aid agencies say

Israel has allowed almost no food aid into north Gaza for two weeks. Humanitarian groups say it leaves 400,000 people with the choice of eventual starvation or fleeing their homes to the south.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Aya Batrawy
Suliman Mleihat, 32, and his nine-year-old son Obeida stand in front of Obeida's classroom, where he sheltered from settlers who attacked the school in the Mu’arrajat Bedouin community in mid-September.

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  • World

The war is in Gaza, but Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted with violence too

In the year since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, the occupied West Bank has seen an increase in Israeli military raids and attacks by Israeli settlers. More than 600 Palestinians have been killed.

October 12, 2024
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) man an observation point along what's called the Blue Line on the border between Lebanon and Israel, near the southern Lebanese town of Marwahin, on Oct. 12, 2023.

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  • Middle East

What is the U.N. peacekeeping force stationed in Lebanon?

The mission was created in 1978 to help restore order after Israel's first invasion of Lebanon. Decades later, it's still there but has come under fire during a new Israeli invasion in Lebanon.

October 11, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Palestinians look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed building following Israeli airstrikes in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Oct. 31, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Her last memory is by the window with her baby in Gaza. Then, Israeli airstrikes hit

Israel’s military dropped tens of thousands of bombs on Gaza in a year. This is a look at one airstrike, the lives it upended and the rights group's investigation saying it's a possible war crime.

October 11, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
Pro-Palestinian protestors rally at Brown University in April as their delegation met with school leaders on campus in Providence, R.I.

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  • National

Brown says no to pro-Palestinian students' demands for divestment

Supporters of divestment ended their encampment last spring in exchange for a promise that their proposal for divestment would get a vote from the board this fall.

October 10, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
GPB News NPR

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  • Middle East

These maps and images show what's left of Gaza, 1 year into the Israel-Hamas war

Israel's war with Hamas has destroyed much of Gaza. Recent analyses find that nearly 60% of buildings, nearly 70% of orchards and 68% of roads have been damaged or destroyed by the conflict.

October 10, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Wood
One year after the Hamas terror attack on Israel, 4,000 people gathered inside Sandy Springs’ Byers Theatre and outside on City Green to commemorate those who died and those who remain hostages.

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  • News

Thousands remember Israel’s Oct. 7 victims, hostages in Sandy Springs

One year after the Hamas terror attack on Israel, 4,000 people gathered inside Sandy Springs’ Byers Theatre and outside on City Green to commemorate those who died and those who remain hostages.

October 08, 2024
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By:
  • Bob Pepalis
Palestinian protesters attend a rally to mark the first anniversary of Palestinian militant group Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

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  • Middle East

'All this blood, all this death': Palestinians protest Israel war with no end in sight

For Palestinian civilians caught in the middle of the ongoing conflict between Israeli forces and the Hamas militant group, the consequences have been unremittingly difficult, and deadly.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Anas Baba and
  • Willem Marx
A Palestinian girl carries a child through the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on March 3, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement.

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  • Middle East

Photos: A look back at the year since Oct. 7

A year has passed since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the start of its war in Gaza. Here's a look at some key moments from photojournalists on the ground.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Two people embrace as relatives and supporters of Israelis killed in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack attend a ceremony at the Nova memorial near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Vigils and protests mark 1 year since Hamas attacks on Israel as fighting rages on

Vigils are taking worldwide to commemorate the approximately 1,200 killed in the Hamas attacks a year ago. Protests are planned to demand a cease-fire to the war that has killed nearly 42,000 in Gaza.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
One year after October 7th, a look at Kibbutz Beeri and how the survivors have moved forward after 102 Kibbutz members have been killed and 3 are still held hostage in Gaza.

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  • World

The Israeli village grieving the biggest loss from Oct. 7, one year later

At Kibbutz Be'eri, where Hamas-led militants killed more than 100 people last Oct. 7, residents are grieving, reburying their loved ones — and returning to live in their old homes.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu hold signs as he addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Netanyahu defies calls for a cease-fire at the U.N., as Israel strikes Lebanon

In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli prime minister said his country would is "winning" and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East.

September 27, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Children play in spring water in Al-Auja, a town in the occupied West Bank.

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  • World

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water

For Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, access to water has been a struggle for years. But since last Oct. 7, water has become even harder for them to obtain.

September 25, 2024
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
A man holds an Icom walkie-talkie after he removed the battery during a funeral of people killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 18.

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  • Middle East

Did exploding pagers attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon violate international law?

The series of explosions that rocked Lebanon this week, killing dozens and wounding thousands, has prompted debate among legal experts on international humanitarian law.

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
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