Middle East

Students from Hunter College chant and hold up signs during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the entrance of their campus in New York earlier this month.

His call for empathy has made this Jewish studies professor feel isolated

4:37am October 23, 2023

by Rachel Martin

A professor of Jewish history at UCLA has tried to stake out some middle ground, where Jews and Palestinians on campus could safely stand and grieve for one another.

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Churchgoers dedicate prayers to Palestinian Christians who died in airstrike

4:15am October 23, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

Services across the Holy Land memorialized the Palestinian civilians killed Thursday when an Israeli airstrike hit the Church of St. Porphyrius in Gaza City, where some 400 people were sheltering.

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PTSD hotline responds to attack on Israel

6:04pm October 22, 2023

Co-host Ari Shapiro speaks with Emi Palmor, chair of Natal, an Israeli help line that has existed for more than 25 years to help people experiencing PTSD from terror and war.

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Palestinians look for survivors in buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Sunday.

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2nd batch of aid crosses into Gaza as Israel intensifies strikes

5:10pm October 22, 2023

by Robert Griffiths

Fourteen trucks with essential supplies provided by the United Nations entered the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. It included water, food and medical equipment, but no fuel.

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What's next for the U.S. in the Middle East, according to a veteran diplomat

8:06am October 22, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses the Israel-Gaza conflict with David Hale. The veteran diplomat served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace as well as ambassador to Lebanon and Jordan.

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Arab leaders, U.N. secretary-general met at a summit in Cairo to discuss the war

8:06am October 22, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

Arab leaders at a Cairo summit failed to agree on a way to contain the violence between Israel and Hamas or resolve the Palestinian quest for statehood.

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Who governs the West Bank? Understanding Palestinian political leadership

8:06am October 22, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad about the leadership of and divisions within Palestinian political factions.