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News Articles: Middle East

Police in Tel Aviv, Israel, use water cannons to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

With or without a cease-fire, Netanyahu says Israeli operation in Rafah will happen

As talks over a cease-fire in Gaza continue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his cabinet was reviewing military plans for Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • D. Parvaz
A child standing inside a damaged building stares at the Al-Faruq mosque, leveled by Israeli bombardment in Rafah on a foggy day on Sunday, Feb. 25.

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  • Middle East

Photos: Humanitarian crisis grows in Gaza as mediation attempts resume

In the past week, the number of people displaced in Gaza reached 1.7 million, Egypt fears a border crisis in the Sinai Peninsula and negotiators began work toward a potential pause in the fighting.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
This Feb. 18 satellite photo shows displaced Palestinians crammed into southern Gaza on the right. Israel is threatening to attack the border town of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians are now living. On the left is the vast, empty expanse of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Egypt says it won't allow Palestinians into Egypt because it fears they might not be allowed back into Gaza.

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  • World

Why Egypt won't allow vulnerable Palestinians across its border

Egypt's empty Sinai Peninsula would offer safety for Palestinian civilians. But Egypt fears refugees might never be allowed back, citing the painful history of earlier Israeli-Palestinian wars.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Myre and
  • Aya Batrawy
Multiple law enforcement agencies arrived at the Israeli Embassy on Sunday afternoon after a man set himself on fire infront of the building.

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  • National

U.S. airman dies after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy

Police in Washington, D.C., identified the active duty member of the U.S. Air Force as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio, Texas. He was rushed to the hospital Sunday with serious injuries.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Abbas Alawieh, a spokesperson for the group Listen to Michigan, pictured at a coffee shop in Detroit, Mich., on Thursday.

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  • Politics

What could Biden's Israel-Gaza stand mean for his campaign? Michigan is an early test

Some Arab American, Muslim and young voters in the Detroit area plan to vote "uncommitted" in Tuesday's primary. They want to send a message to Biden: Call for a cease-fire or lose us in November.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • Leila Fadel,
  • and 2 more
This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea last month. The U.S. and Britain struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, military officials said.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. and Britain carry out strikes on 18 Houthi targets in Yemen

The strikes targeted eight locations in Yemen that included missile storage and air defense systems, officials said.

February 24, 2024
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
Ibrahim Hassouna, 30, a Gaza social media influencer known as Kazanova, has the phrase "my mom" tattooed on his wrist in Arabic. Most of his family was killed in a Feb. 12 Israeli military operation to rescue hostages.

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  • World

A Gaza influencer built a following with feel-good videos. Now he mourns his family

The Instagram influencer known as Kazanova built an audience of 440,000 followers with positive videos to lift spirits in Gaza. Most of his family was killed in an Israeli hostage rescue operation.

February 24, 2024
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By:
  • Anas Baba and
  • Daniel Estrin
Israeli soldiers sit on an artillery unit near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, in Netivot, Israel, Oct. 22.

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  • Middle East

Negotiators are working on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal. Here's what to know

lsrael is sending a delegation to Paris Friday to meet with officials from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt to discuss the latest outlines of a potential deal for a pause in the fighting in Gaza.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • D. Parvaz and
  • Aya Batrawy
Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen, outside Sanaa, on Jan. 22.

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  • News

China is mostly quiet on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea

China's charting its own course, distancing itself from the U.S. in the Middle East, refusing to condemn the Houthis and looking to capitalize on ties with regional players to help solve the crisis.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
This image released by the U.S. Department of Justice in an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, Alexandria, Va., shows what is described as Iranian-made warhead bound for Yemen's Houthi seized off a vessel in the Arabian Sea. Four foreign nationals were charged Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, with transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons on a vessel intercepted by U.S. naval forces.

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  • Middle East

4 charged in transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons on boat intercepted by U.S.

The criminal complaint alleges the defendants were transporting missile components for the type of weapons used by Houthi rebel forces in recent attacks. Two Navy SEALs died during the mission.

February 22, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Suheir Barghouti's son, Saleh Barghouti, was shot dead by the Israeli military in 2018 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Six years later, she still doesn't know where his body is.

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  • Middle East

How the dead serve as bargaining chips in the Israel-Hamas conflict

Israel and Hamas are both holding the bodies of those killed on the other side, refusing to release them. They've done so for years and are again using the enemy dead as leverage in the current war.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Fighters carry the coffin of Abu Baqir al-Saadi during his funeral on Feb. 8. He was a senior commander in Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.

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  • Middle East

What fighting in the Middle East means for the U.S. troop presence in Iraq

After the U.S. killed a commander of an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad, pressure is mounting on Iraq's government to expel America's 2,500 military personnel.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
An Egyptian truck driver removes a tarp covering humanitarian aid before it is inspected on its way to the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom Crossing in Israel on Dec. 22, 2023.

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  • Middle East

How much humanitarian aid is getting into Gaza? The exact answer can be hard to know

The need for humanitarian aid in Gaza is enormous, but trying to decipher how much aid is getting into the territory and where it's going can be tricky.

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • D. Parvaz and
  • Anas Baba
Emmalene Blake poses for a portrait in front of her mural showing Samia al-Atrash holding her niece Masa Khader, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in October.

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  • News

A grieving Palestinian, an Irish artist and the mural that brought them together

Artist Emmalene Blake's mural on the wall of a Dublin pub became an iconic image of Gaza's grief. Then one day, she got an Instagram message from the Palestinian woman in the image.

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
The Security Council meets before voting on a resolution concerning a cease-fire in Gaza at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday. The resolution was vetoed by the U.S.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. has again vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza

Tuesday's vote marked the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. The Arab nations behind the plan hoped to show broad support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.

February 20, 2024
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  • Michele Kelemen
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