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News Articles: Israeli military

A view of the destroyed Shujaiya neighborhood on the outskirts of Gaza City, from an Israeli military outpost in northern Gaza, on Wednesday.

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  • Middle East

An NPR reporter's journey into Gaza, for the first time since the war began

NPR's Israel correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israeli still requires a military escort.

November 07, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Dr. Galit Sivak (center), head of the vascular surgery department, performs surgery at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikvah, Israel. She has developed a surgical procedure during the Gaza war that saved the limbs of 35 severely wounded Israeli soldiers.

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  • Middle East

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers were badly wounded in Gaza. Here's what saved them

More than 500 Israeli soldiers have survived serious injuries fighting in Gaza, according to the military, thanks largely to lessons learned and advances in medicine.

September 29, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in Gaza, at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 18.

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  • USPS

A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide?

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

September 26, 2025
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By:
  • Majd Al-Waheidi
Judi Weinstein Haggai and Gad Haggai were kidnapped in the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack and later declared dead by the Israeli authorities. Here they are pictured at an unknown location in this undated photo provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. The Israeli military said it recovered their bodies Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it recovered the bodies of 2 U.S.-Israeli hostages

The bodies of Judi Weinstein Haggai, 70, an Israeli who held U.S. and Canadian citizenship, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 72, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, were recovered, the country's military said.

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Palestinian children walk amid rubble of destroyed houses after Israeli attacks in Jenin camp, the occupied West Bank, on Feb. 26.

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  • World

West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Palestinians recite a prayer over the bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel expands its ground offensive in Gaza as Hamas fires rockets back

The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive in Gaza, and killed at least 80 Palestinians in a new wave of strikes Thursday. Hamas fired its first rockets since Israel broke a recent ceasefire.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Anas Baba,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
In this picture, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it's launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 people.

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  • Middle East

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israel's military launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, sending troops into areas they retreated from during a two-month ceasefire. This comes a day after airstrikes killed more than 400 people.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
Children look on as people walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza drew global condemnation, as it said it had "no alternative" other than to resume military operations in order to bring home hostages.

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  • Middle East

Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel on Tuesday unleashed its most intense strikes on the Gaza Strip since a January ceasefire.

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  • Middle East

Hundreds killed as Israel launches a series of air strikes on Gaza

Israel said the Tuesday attacks were launched after Hamas refused to release more hostages held in Gaza. The strikes raise the prospect of a full resumption of war after a nearly two-month ceasefire.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Anas Baba,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans walking toward Gaza City on Jan. 27, 2025, after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

Thousands of Palestinians begin returning home to a devastated Gaza

The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Palestinians carry their belongings on their way to migrate for safer areas following the Israeli army's warning to evacuate the Dawa Faculty of the Ministry of Endowments in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Monday.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. urges major changes to Israel's evacuations in Gaza, a leaked memo says

In an internal memo obtained by NPR, U.S. officials warn that Israel's "drastically increased" evacuation orders in Gaza have further displaced Palestinians and could debilitate aid efforts.

August 29, 2024
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
The aftermath of an Israeli strike on a U.N. school compound in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, that killed more than 30 people, including children, according to a Gaza hospital director. Israel said it was targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives hiding in two school classrooms.

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  • World

Israel used a U.S.-made bomb in a deadly U.N. school strike in Gaza

Israel dropped a bomb on a U.N.-run school it said was being used by Hamas. The blast killed dozens, including women and children, medics and witnesses say. The bomb was U.S.-made, NPR has discovered.

June 06, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin 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
This photo provided by the Israel Defense Forces shows a tank with an Israel flag on it entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Israeli forces seize the Gaza side of Rafah, as Hamas truce talks resume in Egypt

Israeli tanks rolled into Rafah Tuesday, taking control of the territory's border crossing with Egypt, even as Israel sent a delegation to Cairo for Hamas truce talks.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Anas Baba
Audience members listen to public comment at a special session of the Oakland City Council about a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza on Nov. 27, 2023, in Oakland, Calif.

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  • National

Gaza cease-fire resolutions roil U.S. local communities

As local elected officials continue to face pressure to pass resolutions calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza, some aren't sure how or whether to take a stand at all.

April 19, 2024
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By:
  • Jim Zarroli
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