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In landmark ruling, Israel's Supreme Court rejects right-wing changes to judiciary

5:37pm January 01, 2024

The decision on Monday was a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign to weaken his nation's independent judiciary and raised new questions about Netanyahu's political future.

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Palestinians visit the graves of people killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and buried inside the Shifa Hospital grounds in Gaza City, on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023.

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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.

Internally displaced Palestinian children use a makeshift wheeled cart to haul water in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, as battles continue between Israel and the militant group Hamas.

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There's a water crisis in Gaza that the end of fighting might not solve

2:16pm December 29, 2023

Before the war, Palestinians in the territory relied heavily on power-hungry desalination plants. But with Israel's intense bombardment, the fate of those plants — and Gaza's water future — is hazy.

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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An Israeli battle tank moves along the border between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on Wednesday as battles between Israel and Hamas continue.

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The latest Israel-Hamas cease-fire proposal drops details of future governance of Gaza

10:45am December 27, 2023

The updated plan, crafted by Egypt and obtained by NPR, is the most recent draft in a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent days aimed at ending Israel's devastating air-and-ground campaign in Gaza.

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.

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An Israeli airstrike in Syria kills a high-ranking Iranian general

1:58pm December 25, 2023

by The Associated Press

The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a long-time adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, comes as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel intensify.

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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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.