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Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday.

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Israeli airstrike on Damascus killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, state media say

11:43am January 20, 2024

by The Associated Press

A strike on the Syrian capital destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. One of those killed was a local Hezbollah commander

President Biden leaves a White House event on Jan. 19, 2024.

Biden is being tested by politics in Israel and at home with the Gaza conflict

8:36am January 20, 2024

by Asma Khalid

President Biden takes the long view on Middle East peace. But in an election year where Democrats are divided on the issue — and as Gaza casualties mount — his support for Israel could cost him.

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Michal Brody-Bareket attends a rally in Jerusalem on Dec. 29 calling for a cease-fire and release of the hostages held in Gaza. She is a longtime activist whose son is a soldier deployed in Gaza and founded The Mothers' Cry, a group of mothers of soldiers and other concerned Israelis calling to end the Gaza war.

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Israel's anti-war movement includes mothers of soldiers serving in Gaza

7:45am January 20, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

A group of Israeli mothers, whose sons are fighting in Gaza, is calling to end the war. They hold a minority view, but draw inspiration from a successful protest by Israeli mothers in a previous war.

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Protesters at a rare anti-war rally in Tel Aviv Thursday. The crowd was made up of people of all ages, many belonging to groups that have long called for an end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.

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Israeli protesters demand Gaza cease-fire in rare anti-war march through Tel Aviv

2:57pm January 19, 2024

by Aya Batrawy

Civil rights lawyers pushed back against a crackdown on protests, securing permission to hold a rally to stop the war in Gaza.

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Dr. Ghassan Al-Suwaiti, a Jordanian plastic surgeon and burn specialist, performs an operation in December at Jordan's field hospital in Khan Younis.

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Jordan accuses Israel of deliberately targeting its Gaza field hospital

10:57am January 19, 2024

by Jane Arraf

Jordan said its field hospital in Khan Younis was hit by shells and gunfire, injuring a doctor and a patient. Israel denied the claim and said it was engaged in a skirmish with Hamas fighters nearby.

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Jan.18, 2024.

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Netanyahu says he told U.S. that he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario

4:04am January 19, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Israeli prime minister spoke just a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel would never have "genuine security" without a pathway toward Palestinian independence.

Palestinians walk through destruction by an Israeli bombardment in the Nusseirat refugee camp in Gaza on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024.

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France and Qatar announce a deal to deliver medicine to Israeli hostages in Gaza

9:37pm January 16, 2024

by The Associated Press

France and Qatar said they had brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to deliver medicine to hostages in Gaza, as well as additional aid to Palestinians in the besieged territory.

Israeli soldiers and artillery in southern Israel by the border with the Gaza Strip, on Dec. 27.

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After 100 days of war, Israel is determined to fight on in Gaza

6:56am January 14, 2024

Israel claims some achievements in more than three months of fighting since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, but the Palestinian death toll has soared and the militant group still clings to power in Gaza.

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At the March on Washington for Gaza, thousands of demonstrators rallied in support of a cease-fire in Gaza and an end for U.S. aid for Israel.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in D.C. march to demand cease-fire in Gaza

9:15pm January 13, 2024

Protesters on Saturday called for an end to U.S. funding for Israel and for Israel to be held accountable for what organizers say are violations of international law.

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.

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More than 30 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip

6:03am January 13, 2024

by The Associated Press

More than 30 Palestinians, including young children, were killed in two Israeli airstrikes overnight into Saturday in the Gaza Strip, officials said.