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News Articles: Middle East

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital where displaced people live in tents, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Officials say Qatar has decided to suspend its mediation efforts on Gaza

Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, officials said Saturday. The announcement comes after growing frustration with the lack of progress on a deal.

November 09, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran.

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  • Middle East

U.S. says Iranian-American held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack

The imprisonment of Reza Valizadeh, acknowledged to the AP by the U.S. State Department, came as Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the American Embassy takeover and hostage crisis on Sunday.

November 03, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with school and university students, in Tehran on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Iran's supreme leader threatens Israel, U.S. with 'crushing response' to Israeli attack

Iran's supreme leader threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. The Pentagon said Friday that more U.S. forces would be coming to the region.

November 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pro-Palestinian supporters hold a candlelight vigil in Dearborn, Mich., on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks in Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza.

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  • Elections

First Gaza, now Lebanon: How support for Israel’s war is influencing Michigan voting

Many Muslim and Arab American voters are leaning toward third-party candidates or not voting, feeling neither main candidate values their families' lives. Others are choosing between Harris and Trump.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Ziad Buchh,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek, as tens of thousands of people flee

As Israel intensified attacks in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, residents fled to an ancient Roman temple, hoping the site’s UNESCO status might save them.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
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
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader.

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  • Middle East

Hezbollah picks cleric Naim Kassem to lead the Lebanese militant group

The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Ivana Likbiri, an 18-month-old Lebanese baby who got injured during an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, is hospitalized at Geitaoui Hospital's burn unit, in Beirut, on Oct. 18.

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  • Middle East

Lebanon's only burn unit sees a surge of patients as Israel strikes the country

Geitaoui Hospital has Lebanon's only unit specializing in burn treatment. Since Israel launched an air and ground invasion of the country to fight Hezbollah, burn cases have mounted.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani and
  • Jawad Moussa
Palestinians are seen lining up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Dec. 21, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Israel passes laws that may threaten the work of a U.N. aid agency in Gaza

The laws do not immediately take effect, but Israel’s international allies said they were deeply worried about their potential impact on Palestinians as the Gaza war’s humanitarian toll worsens.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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
Flame and smoke rises from buildings hit by Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes have killed 22 people in northern Gaza

The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said that 11 women and 2 children were among those killed in the strikes late Saturday on several homes and buildings in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.

October 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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