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News Articles: Middle East

Palestinians with foreign passports wait to cross the Rafah Border Gate into Egypt.

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  • Middle East

Up First briefing: Humanitarian corridors in Gaza; Manchin's Senate seat up for grabs

Israel agrees to let civilians stuck in northern Gaza travel south for several hours each day. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., won't seek reelection, threatening Democrats' narrow Senate majority.

November 10, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
GPB News NPR

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  • Education

Colleges could lose federal funding if they don't curb antisemitism and Islamophobia

The Biden Administration has told colleges they risk losing federal funding if they don't take aggressive steps to curb attacks on Jewish students, and harassment of pro-Palestinian students.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
A Thai worker labors in Israeli fields adjacent to the Gaza Strip on Oct. 12.

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  • Middle East

Thai farmhands in Israel face a grim choice: work in a war zone or go home to poverty

Some 30,000 Thais were working in Israel prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. More than 7,000 have left Israel since. More than 50 Thai citizens were killed or taken hostage in the attacks.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
This map shows estimated damage in northern Gaza between Oct. 7 and Nov. 5. Areas with the most recent damage (Oct. 30-Nov. 5) are highlighted in a brighter color.

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  • Middle East

Map: After a month of bombardments, as much as a third of Gaza City is damaged

New analysis of imagery from a European Space Agency satellite allows for what researchers say is the most comprehensive look yet at the scale of damage due to the Israeli bombardment.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Wood
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 31, 2023.

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  • National Security

U.S. launches airstrike in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias

The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a number of attacks on U.S. troops in the region.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Yair Golan rescued people stranded at the Nova festival when Hamas attacked.

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  • Middle East

This Israeli general saw the horror of the Hamas attack. Now, he's urging optimism

The morning of the Hamas attack on Israel, Yair Golan — a former member of Israel's parliament and a major general in the country's military reserves — leapt into action.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Megan Lim
The NICU at Galilee Medical Center was the first part of the hospital to move underground.

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  • Middle East

Hospitals in Israel move underground to keep working amid rockets from Lebanon

Across Israel, especially in the north, hospitals are setting up underground or fortified care facilities as fallout from war with Hamas intensifies fighting with militants in neighboring Lebanon.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny ,
  • Claire Harbage,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Middle East

A chief surgeon with the ICRC describes 11 days in Gaza

A British surgeon with the International Committee of the Red Cross describes what he's seen in 11 days at a Gaza hospital.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
An aerial view shows the compound of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday as battles continue between Israel and Hamas.

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  • Middle East

Gaza's hospitals report growing threats from Israeli airstrikes

The Israeli military says that it has not hit any hospitals, but medical facilities are on its radar because it says Hamas is hiding in tunnels underneath medical facilities in Gaza.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Aya Batrawy
Palestinians with foreign passports at Rafah Border Gate wait to cross into Egypt, Nov. 1.

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  • World

What is Gaza's Rafah crossing and why is it important?

The Rafah border crossing, operated by Egyptian authorities, is the only Gaza crossing not directly controlled by Israel. Now it is the only entry point for aid and exit point for those able to leave.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
They have suffered great pain but not lost their compassion. Clockwise from top left: Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan, a Palestinian citizen of Israel whose relative in Gaza, an ambulance driver, died in an airstrike; Robi Damelin, whose son was killed by a Palestinian sniper; Yousef Bashir, who as a teen was shot by an Israeli soldier in Gaza; Maoz Inon, whose parents died in the Hamas attack of Oct. 7.

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  • Middle East

The Israel-Hamas war has not quashed their compassion, their empathy, their hope

They're from Israel and Gaza. A man whose parents died on Oct. 7 feels as if he is swimming in an sea of sorrow. A young man has a soldier's bullet lodged in his spine. Yet they have not lost hope.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel

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  • News

Up First Briefing: 1 month since Hamas attacked Israel; Supreme Court gun control case

Today marks one month since Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 and taking more than 200 hostages. The Supreme Court hears arguments in a gun rights and domestic violence case.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Suzanne Nuyen
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah on Monday.

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  • Middle East

The death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000 as the conflict enters a second month

Israeli forces have reached the coast of Gaza, splitting the besieged area in half and essentially cutting off the north from the south.

November 06, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz,
  • Lauren Migaki,
  • and 2 more
Qassem Ali on his rooftop balcony in Gaza.

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  • Middle East

The view inside Gaza — from an American citizen who just left

Qassem Ali is one of the few people allowed to leave Gaza since the conflict with Israel began more than four weeks ago. He describes the anger and sadness he felt as he left.

November 06, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 2 more
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather in front of the White House on Saturday, calling for a cease-fire. The Biden administration is pushing Israel to consider humanitarian pauses instead.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. wants a humanitarian pause in Gaza, not a cease-fire. What's the difference?

Many human rights groups and protesters are calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. The U.S. and Israel are both opposed to one, but appear far apart on the question of humanitarian pauses.

November 06, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
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