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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 35; Netanyahu says 'many months' of war ahead

2:07pm December 31, 2023

by The Associated Press

Residents reported strikes in the Gaza's central region, the latest focus of the nearly three-month air and ground war that has now engulfed most of the territory.

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

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Airstrikes hit refugee camps in Gaza as U.S. approves new weapons sales to Israel

10:31am December 30, 2023

by The Associated Press

Israeli warplanes struck two urban refugee camps in central Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration approved a new $147.5 million emergency weapons sale to Israel.

Palestinians pray near the wrapped bodies of relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Khan Younis on Wednesday.

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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, even in largely emptied north

8:45am December 28, 2023

by The Associated Press

Israeli forces bombarded towns and refugee camps across Gaza overnight into Thursday, killing dozens of people in an air and ground offensive against Hamas that has widened to most of the territory.

Palestinian children, having fled the Israeli bombing of the northern Gaza Strip in response to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, are living in temporary shelters at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Global health groups say they are doing what they can to keep a lid on infectious diseases amid crowded, unsanitary conditions and a devastated health-care system.

Health workers struggle to prevent an infectious disease 'disaster in waiting' in Gaza

6:00pm December 26, 2023

Public health experts say conditions in war-torn Gaza are ripe for the spread of infectious disease. Health workers are struggling to spot and contain outbreaks, even as the health system teeters.

Men recover the body of a Palestinian killed in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli strike at al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza on Monday, as the war between Israel and Hamas carries on.

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Egyptian officials tout a preliminary plan to end the Israel-Hamas war

3:01pm December 25, 2023

The tentative plan includes a possible cease-fire, release of Israeli hostages and Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, and a new Palestinian leadership that spans Gaza and West Bank territories.

Pope Francis presides over Christmas eve Mass, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday Dec. 24, 2023.

Pope Francis mourns the rejection of peace and "futile logic of war" this Christmas

6:40pm December 24, 2023

by Dustin Jones

In his Christmas Mass address Sunday, he said the word of God is being drowned out by the violence in Gaza. Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire multiple times since the war started on Oct. 7.

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Khan Younis on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.

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A weekend of combat in Gaza kills 14 Israeli soldiers, in sign of Hamas' entrenchment

8:00am December 24, 2023

by The Associated Press

Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said Sunday, a sign that Hamas is still putting up a fight despite weeks of brutal war.

Journalist Masha Gessen received a prize named after political theorist Hannah Ahrendt in Bremen, Germany on Saturday. The ceremony almost didn't happen after sponsors condemned Gessen's recent remarks on the Middle East.

Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary

5:00am December 22, 2023

by Leila Fadel

Journalist Masha Gessen talks to NPR's Morning Edition about their recent New Yorker essay on German Holocaust memory and the situation in Gaza — and the controversy that ensued.

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Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah on Wednesday.

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An inside account of delivering aid to Gaza: 'Each time it's getting more desperate'

12:20pm December 21, 2023

Philippe Lazzarini has visited Gaza three times since the war began. He says each time he can't imagine the situation could get more desperate — and then it does.

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Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli supporters converge at a demonstration of New York University students in November.

'Fear rather than sensitivity': Most U.S. scholars on the Mideast are self-censoring

12:41pm December 15, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

The war between Israel and Hamas is testing the limits of free speech across college campuses. And it's also affecting those who study the Middle East.

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