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News Articles: Middle East

Children look on as a man hangs decorations ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

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  • World

Trump wants Palestinians out of Gaza. Here are Egypt's plans to keep them there

Arab leaders will meet in Cairo to reject Palestinian displacement from Gaza. NPR looks at Egypt's reconstruction plans for Gaza that counter President Trump's ideas of expulsion.

March 03, 2025
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  • Aya Batrawy
Rachel Szor, left, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham accept the Oscar for best documentary feature film for <em>No Other Land.</em>

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  • Movies

At Oscars, 'No Other Land' co-directors call for national rights for Palestinians

The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

March 02, 2025
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By:
  • Chloee Weiner
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid drive through Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after entering from the Kerem Shalom crossing on February 18, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israel stops the delivery of aid to Gaza until Hamas accepts U.S. ceasefire extension

Israel says it is stopping the delivery of aid to Gaza until Hamas accepts a U.S. proposal for an extension of the ceasefire deal.

March 02, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
A woman waves a flag bearing a picture of the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, as people gather in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria to listen to a message from the jailed leader on Feb. 27. Ocalan called for his Kurdish militant force to disband and his fighters to lay down their arms.

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  • World

Kurdish militant group PKK declares ceasefire after decades of conflict with Turkey

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political breakthrough for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

March 01, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Hamas fighters stand guard as an International Red Cross vehicle arrives at the site of the handing over of two Israeli hostages in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner release on February 22, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Hamas rejects Israel's request to extend phase one of Gaza ceasefire

Hamas says it is not willing to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire, rejecting an Israeli request to delay negotiations on the second phase.

March 01, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
A woman grieves at a memorial for those killed and abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack by Hamas militants, near the kibbutz Reim, southern Israel on May 13, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Israeli military cites 'fundamental misunderstanding' of Hamas ahead of Oct. 7 attack

The report is the Israeli military's first official account of mistakes that preceded the 2023 attack, which launched Israel's subsequent war against Hamas in Gaza that killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.

February 28, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country's historic Jewish population, in 1992.

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  • World

Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.

February 27, 2025
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  • Jane Arraf
Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Hamas returns bodies of four hostages and Israel releases hundreds of Palestinians

Both sides agreed there would be no Hamas ceremonies for the hostage bodies and in exchange Israel would release the Palestinian detainees and prisoners whose freedom had been held up since Saturday.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Mourners gather around the convoy carrying the coffins of slain hostages Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, during their funeral procession in Rishon Lezion, Israel on Wednesday.

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  • Middle East

Israelis hold a funeral procession for Shiri Bibas and her two sons killed in Gaza

Crowds gathered in Israel for the funeral procession of the Bibas family, a mother and two young sons killed while being held hostage in Gaza. The story of their killing has enraged Israelis, and Israeli government representatives were not invited to the funeral.

February 26, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Itay Stern
A composite made from an AI-generated video President Trump posted to social media on Tuesday night.

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  • Politics

Trump's social media video garners pushback from Arabs and Muslims in U.S. and Gaza

In a seemingly AI-generated video that the president posted on social media, images of destruction due to the war in Gaza are transformed into a glitzy resort called "TRUMP GAZA."

February 26, 2025
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  • Sarah McCammon,
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
  • and 1 more
People line the street to watch the funeral procession carrying the caskets of Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas with family in minibuses pass by on Feb. 26, 2025 in Rishon LeZion, Israel.

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  • Middle East

Israel and Hamas agree on a new exchange, leaving a fragile ceasefire intact

The bodies of four Israeli hostages are to be returned late Wednesday and more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed during the last week of the current Gaza ceasefire deal.

February 26, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral procession at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (

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  • News

Huge crowds gather in Lebanon for funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli airstrike.

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Palestinian families react after Israel delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners, scheduled to be released in the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah early on February 23, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank

Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Israeli hostages Averu Mengistu (4th-R) and Tal Shoham (L) are flanked by Hamas fighters as they stand on a stage during their release in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Hamas releases Israeli hostages, returns remains of Shiri Bibas

Hamas to release the last six live hostages whose freedom they agreed to under the current ceasefire deal.

February 22, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
This handout picture shows (from L) Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein and UAE's National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a picture in Riyadh on February 21,…

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  • Middle East

Arab leaders huddle in Saudi Arabia in pushback to Trump's Gaza plans

Leaders from Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states met in Saudi Arabia to discuss alternative plans for Gaza's future than the one laid out by President Trump, which calls for displacing Palestinians.

February 22, 2025
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  • Aya Batrawy
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