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News Articles: Middle East

An Jordanian citizen votes in historic elections for the Parliament of Jordan's 138-seat lower house on Tuesday in Amman, Jordan. Voters are deciding their representatives in the 20th Lower House of Parliament.

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  • Middle East

Jordanian voters go to polls amid fears of a wider war

For the first time, political parties in Jordan are enabled to play a bigger role, relying on their platforms, amid fears of a wider war in the region.

September 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Dozens killed from an Israeli strike in a Gaza humanitarian zone, Palestinians say

Tuesday's strike was among the deadliest strikes yet in a sprawl of crowded tent camps along the Gaza coast that Israel designated as a humanitarian zone for hundreds of thousands of civilians.

September 10, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Palestinians march to honor Turkish American activist Aysenur Eygi in Nablus, in the Israeli- occupied West Bank, on Sunday. Witnesses say Israeli forces shot Eygi dead during a pro-Palestinian demonstration Friday.

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  • Middle East

U.S. urges Israel to swiftly investigate killing of American woman in West Bank

The State Department urged Israel to move quickly to investigate the death of a U.S. woman during a protest against Israeli settlements in the West Bank last week. Eyewitnesses said she was shot in the head by Israeli forces policing the protest. Israeli authorities have said they are investigating the incident.

September 09, 2024
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen,
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
  • and 1 more
This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

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  • Middle East

3 Israelis killed in attack at West Bank-Jordan border crossing, Israeli military says

The Israeli military said a gunman approached the Allenby Bridge Crossing from the Jordanian side in a truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces, who killed the assailant in a shootout.

September 08, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Armed Palestinian militants attend a group funeral of people killed in a raid by Israeli forces, in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on May 23.

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  • Middle East

What West Bank Palestinian youths are fighting for, in their own words

The Israeli military vows to stamp out Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian fighters tell NPR they are willing to die to resist Israeli occupation.

September 07, 2024
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vice President Harris at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17, 2024.

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  • Politics

How Harris will distinguish her foreign policy from Biden — and Trump

By necessity, Vice President Harris has worked in lockstep with President Biden on his foreign policy. What she would do in the White House if she wins on Nov. 5 will be in focus in Tuesday's debate.

September 07, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
A Palestinian family mourns the death of their daughter, who was killed in an Israeli attack as she was heading to play while wearing her roller skates, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Sept. 4.

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  • Middle East

Killed in her pink roller skates, a Palestinian girl’s photo in Gaza goes viral

The photo of a girl in Gaza killed by an Israeli airstrike while wearing pink roller skates goes viral and draws attention to the plight of children nearly a year into the war.

September 06, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
Husam Abukhedeir, a Palestinian neurosurgeon, left his native Gaza for the United Arab Emirates last November because he felt that conditions caused by the war had stripped him of his power as a physician — and endangered his family. Nearly 9 months have passed, and Abukhedeir does not see an end in sight to the suffering

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to ... the Gaza neurosurgeon who faced a wrenching decision

Husam Abukhedeir, the chief neurosurgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital, helped the injured, watched many died, including his sister, then knew what he had to do to protect his family. How is he faring today?

September 06, 2024
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By:
  • Farah Yousry
People walk past a billboard showing a portrait of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (top) next to Palestine Square in the Tehran on Aug. 12, 2024.

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  • Law

U.S. charges Hamas leaders with terrorism over October attack in Israel

The Justice Department is charging six Hamas leaders with terrorism, including the architect of the group’s deadly Oct. 7 attack against Israel.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
An Israeli soldier walks on a tank near the border of the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Aug. 21.

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  • Middle East

5 things to know about the U.K.’s suspension of some arms exports to Israel

The U.K. exports explosive devices, guns and fighter jet components to Israel. But it's suspending some arms shipments, fearing Israel could used them in violation of international law.

September 03, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Ariel Heller, 4, helps to glue a broken clay jar during a special tour with his family after he accidentally broke another jar at the Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, on Friday. The boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar in an Israeli museum has been forgiven and invited back, as curators hope to turn the disaster into a teachable moment.

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  • Arts & Life

Israeli boy who broke an ancient jar learns how the museum is piecing it back together

After a 4-year-old boy broke a 3,500-year-old vase, a museum in Israel viewed it as an educational opportunity and invited him and his family back to learn about how they would restore the item.

September 03, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the President Masoud Pezeshkian's administration, in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27.

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  • Middle East

An Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leader

Hossein Shanbehzadeh has been sentenced after replying with a period in response to a post on the social platform X by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

September 02, 2024
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
People block a road as they protest, calling for a deal for the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

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  • Middle East

General strike in Israel over hostages leads to uneven closures

A call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza led to closures and other disruptions, but it was ignored in some areas, reflecting political divisions.

September 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A nurse administers polio vaccine drops to a young Palestinian patient at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group.

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  • Middle East

As polio vaccinations begin in Gaza, U.N. says success hinges on a pause in fighting

Health care workers plan to reach more than 640,000 Palestinian children in a matter of days while Israel has agreed to staggered pauses in fighting.

September 01, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim and
  • Aya Batrawy
Relatives and friends attend the funeral of slain hostage Almog Sarusi, who was killed in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at a cemetery in Ra'anana, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Israelis protest and workers' strike is planned after 6 more hostages die in Gaza

Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night to demand a cease-fire with Hamas after six hostages were found dead in Gaza. Israel's largest trade union also called a general strike for Monday.

September 01, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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