Gaza

Health & Safety

Why this neurosurgeon chose to stay in his beloved Gaza — and why he left

1:27pm February 02, 2024

by Farah Yousry

Since boyhood, Husam Abukhedeir wanted to become a doctor and serve his people. He overcome obstacles to get his medical credentials and practiced neurosurgery at Al-Shifa Hospital. Then came the war.

Radio Ajyal producer Mohammed Daher listens to a caller during a weekly radio program in which Palestinians send messages to their relatives in Israeli prisons.

World News

Reaching hostages and prisoners, through Israeli and Palestinian radio

11:36am February 01, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

An Israeli radio station is broadcasting messages and songs to hostages in Gaza, and a Palestinian station in the West Bank is broadcasting families' messages to relatives recently jailed in Israel.

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A woman dries a baby in a towel after giving the infant a bath inside a tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Jan. 18.

World News

From the hospital to a tent in hours — what it's like giving birth in Gaza now

5:00am January 31, 2024

UNICEF estimates about 20,000 babies have been born in Gaza since Israel began its offensive there in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

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Estelle Laughlin, 94, survived the Nazi concentration camps along with her older sister and mother. She was photographed in her living room in Lincolnshire, Illinois, on October 6, 2023.

Health & Safety

A Holocaust survivor identifies with the pain of both sides in the Israel-Hamas war

4:45pm January 30, 2024

by Ari Daniel

As a girl of 10, Estelle Laughlin and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, then sent to a concentration camp. She lived through the Nazi genocide. This new war has shaken her to her core.

A screen grab from a security camera shows what hospital staff described as Israeli forces in disguise, holding weapons, raiding the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, West Bank, on Tuesday,

World News

Israeli forces raid a West Bank hospital, killing three Palestinians

1:45pm January 30, 2024

by Hadeel Al-Shalchi

Israel says the men who were killed on Tuesday were militants. Israeli forces dressed as civilians and hospital staff during the raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.

A satellite view of the U.S. military outpost known as Tower 22, in Rukban, Rwaished District, Jordan, in October last year.

World News

The killing of U.S. troops in Jordan raises specter of a wider war in the Middle East

5:46pm January 29, 2024

by Hadeel Al-Shalchi

An escalation of violence in the Middle East over the last 24 hours, including a drone attack that killed three U.S. service members, has raised concerns about the possibility of a regional war.

Palestinians look at their neighbor's damaged home following an Israeli strike in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, on Jan. 27.

World News

Photos of life in war: Palestinians flee south in Gaza, Israel mourns dead soldiers

3:34pm January 29, 2024

by NPR Staff

Last week, Israel saw its deadliest day during its war with Hamas, and displaced Palestinians fled Khan Younis and headed toward a flooded Rafah, where shelter and resources remain scarce.

Yousef al-Hindi holds a puppet, also named Yousef, that he created using materials found in his camp in Rafah.

World News

Gaza puppeteer doesn't let the war stop his passion

11:24am January 28, 2024

Yousef al-Hindi, a puppeteer from Gaza, continues his passion despite the war between Israel and Hamas by using whatever materials he can find.

Idit (from left), Ronen and Kobi Ohel â mother, brother and father of Alon Ohel â listen to the concert.

Her son was taken by Hamas. She threw him a concert in the hopes he could hear it

8:27am January 27, 2024

Alon Ohel was taken in the early hours of Oct. 7. He is a talented pianist, and his mother believes that music can keep them connected: "It's not the hearing — it's the vibe, it's the energy."

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Biden's campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez speaks on Nov. 7, 2023. Chávez Rodriguez was in Michigan on Friday where some Arab American leaders declined to meet her because of the Gaza conflict.

Politics & Government

In Michigan, some Arab American leaders declined to meet Biden's campaign manager

7:32pm January 26, 2024

by Asma Khalid

The Arab American community is angry that Biden has not called for a ceasefire in Gaza despite a rising civilian death toll. Some leaders said no to meeting his campaign manager.