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News Articles: Middle East

Vice President Harris speaks to leaders at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Dec. 2, 2023.

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  • Elections

In Dubai, Harris deals with 2 issues important to young voters: climate and Gaza

Vice President Harris gave her most extensive comments to date on the fighting in Gaza, emphatically calling on Israel to do more to protect civilians.

December 02, 2023
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
A Palestinian man carries a child wounded during an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it has hit more than 400 targets in Gaza since end of truce with Hamas

The temporary truce that collapsed early Friday followed seven weeks of fighting in Gaza sparked by simultaneous attacks on southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.

December 02, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
A man wearing an Israeli flag looks toward ambulances outside a hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Nov. 24.

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  • Middle East

Some Israeli hostages are coming home. What will their road to recovery look like?

Dozens of women and kids held hostage by Hamas for nearly two months returned home to Israel this week. Experts say reacclimating is a process — and there are ways professionals and parents can help.

December 02, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Traffic clogs the streets of Khan Younis on Friday with people seeking safety from Israeli airstrikes.

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  • Middle East

In Gaza, renewed fighting dims hopes of a longer-term pause for humanitarian aid

A seven-day break in the fighting had allowed a significant increase in the delivery of badly needed food, fuel and medical supplies. But the flow of aid was halted by the resumption of airstrikes.

December 02, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Brian Mann
Sigal Manzuri, whose daughters Norelle and Roya were killed in the Hamas-led attack on the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, embraces one of their friends. Surrounding them are photos of people killed and taken hostage by Hamas militants, displayed at the site as DJs spin music to commemorate victims, near Kibbutz Re'im, Tuesday.

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  • World

At Israeli rave site attacked by Hamas, DJs play music to honor the dead and missing

The memorial event, at which five DJs played, took place at the site where Hamas killed hundreds attending a rave on Oct. 7. "This is the first time I've been able to cry," says one attendee.

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
Workers rush injured people to Mohammed Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah as Israel resumed its bombing Friday morning in the Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

Israel hits targets in Gaza as its cease-fire with Hamas collapses

The twice-extended cease-fire held long enough for Israel to secure release of more than 100 hostages seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack. In exchange, Israel freed hundreds of jailed Palestinians.

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman,
  • Brian Mann,
  • and 1 more
An Israeli Air Force helicopter carrying an Israeli hostage released by Hamas lands at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes Gaza after truce expires

Israel's military said it had resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip minutes after a temporary truce with Hamas expired Friday, blaming the militant group for breaking the cease-fire.

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Israel's President Isaac Herzog meet in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday following the announcement of an extension of the truce between Israel and Hamas just before it was due to expire.

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  • Middle East

The Gaza cease-fire with Hamas is extended another day as Blinken arrives in Israel

The secretary of state said the U.S. is committed to seeing the release of all hostages held by Hamas. And gunmen killed three Israelis in an attack on the outskirts of West Jerusalem early Thursday.

November 30, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
This picture taken from a position in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing in the the Palestinian territory after an Israeli strike on November 21, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.

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  • Middle East

Civilian deaths are being dismissed as 'crisis actors' in Gaza and Israel

As graphic images from Gaza flood social media platforms, many people are claiming those images are fake, in the latest iteration of a disturbing trope.

November 29, 2023
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
From left to right, top: former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. From left to right, bottom:  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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  • Elections

Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on Israel, Ukraine and China

Foreign policy doesn't always make headlines in presidential campaigns, but with the U.S. involved in two foreign wars — and facing a rising adversary in China, voters are paying more attention.

November 29, 2023
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Families of the hostages, and their supporters, call for the release of all the hostages during a demonstration outside The Kirya ahead of the war cabinet meeting on the fifth day of the temporary truce on Tuesday in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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  • Middle East

Mediators work to extend Israel-Hamas truce as final planned hostage swap nears

U.S. and Israeli officials are in Qatar working on a new cease-fire extension. At least 30 Palestinians in Israeli jails and 10 hostages held in Gaza by Hamas are likely to be freed on Wednesday.

November 29, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
Israelis gather to witness the first batch of released hostages being brought to Schneider Hospital via helicopter on Nov. 24.

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  • Middle East

What to know about the hostages still held by Hamas

Under an extension of a temporary cease-fire, Hamas freed 12 more hostages on Tuesday, including 10 Israelis and two foreign nationals, Israel's military said. About 160 hostages remain in captivity.

November 28, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Released Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Abu Al-Humus, 17, hugs his mother after arriving home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, early Tuesday. Eleven Israelis were also released in the latest Israel-Hamas swap of captives.

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  • Middle East

In first day of extended Gaza truce, Israel and Hamas ready to release more captives

Israel says it has already received a list of Israeli hostages Hamas proposes to release in exchange for Israel freeing more Palestinian prisoners. But possible signs of a fraying truce are emerging.

November 28, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Hisham Awartani with his father, Ali Awartani, and mother, Elizabeth Price. On Saturday, Awartani was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot in Burlington, Vermont.

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  • World

Mother of Palestinian student shot in Vermont thought he would be safer in U.S.

Elizabeth Price's son Hisham Awartani was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot on Saturday in Vermont. Speaking to NPR from Ramallah, Price fears her son "is confronting a life of disability."

November 28, 2023
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Zama, right, hugs his mother after being released from an Israeli jail in exchange for Israeli hostages released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, at his home in Halhul village north Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

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  • Middle East

More captives are freed as Israel and Hamas agree to extend their truce in Gaza

Hamas released 11 Israelis and a bus with Palestinian prisoners arrived in the West Bank after the two sides announced a continuation of their temporary cease-fire to facilitate more exchanges.

November 28, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman,
  • Lauren Frayer,
  • and 1 more
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