Israel-Hamas war

Smoke rises from a destroyed apartment following a large explosion in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday. The TV station of Lebanon's Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.

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A Hamas leader is killed in an explosion in Beirut

6:25pm January 02, 2024

by Jane Arraf

A senior official of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has been killed in what it believes to be an Israeli strike in Lebanon's capital of Beirut. Israel has not taken responsibility.

Israeli soldiers load shells onto a tank Sunday at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel.

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Israel pulls thousands of troops from Gaza as combat focuses on 1 city: Khan Younis

9:31am January 01, 2024

by The Associated Press

It's the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, and could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas. But the biggest city in southern Gaza still is fiercely contested.

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.

Alon Keren (left) and soldiers from his commando unit sleep on the floor of an evacuated Palestinian home in Gaza.

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Two weeks in Gaza, through one Israeli soldier's eyes

3:02pm December 27, 2023

A reservist serving in a logistics support role for his combat unit reflects on his first weeks stationed in Gaza. He's one of hundreds of thousands of reservists called up since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

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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.

Volunteers work at a dairy farm near Nir Oz, one of the communities attacked on Oct. 7 by Hamas militants, in southern Israel on Wednesday. People from Israel and around the world have been rotating in to volunteer at the farm, helping fill the gap left by the workers who are no longer here.

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The Hamas attack left many Israeli farms abandoned — some worry forever

9:04am December 24, 2023

by Scott Neuman

In some of the farm communities hardest hit during the Oct. 7 attack, volunteers from Israel and around the world are arriving to fill the gap left by workers who are no longer there.

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Palestinian farmers Naser El Khatib and Thaer El Taher stand on land filled with their olive trees at the edge of Beitunia, across from an area controlled by Israel in the occupied West Bank, on Dec. 2.

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In the West Bank, Palestinian olive farmers fear for the worst in this year's harvest

8:20am December 23, 2023

by Eleanor Beardsley

Usually at this time of year, Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank are hard at work in their groves. But because of the war in Gaza, many have not been able to access their land.

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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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Hanan Barghouti, a Hamas supporter, was released from Israeli detention last month as part of a hostage-prisoner exchange. She believes support for Hamas is rising fast.

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As Israel fights to destroy Hamas, the group's popularity surges among Palestinians

10:19am December 21, 2023

by Brian Mann

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a recent poll found 68% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was a legitimate act of defiance and support for the group has more than tripled to 44%.

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A picture taken from from the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Harfa, near the border with Israel, shows smoke billowing near an Israeli outpost from rockets fired by Hezbollah on Dec. 15.

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Why Hezbollah and Israel haven't plunged into all-out war

12:58pm December 19, 2023

by Jane Arraf

The Iran-backed Lebanese militia and Israeli forces have been fighting across their border since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, but analysts say they want to avoid a war.

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