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Rocket Strike Brings Mourning and Questions of Identity to Druze Community

8:08pm July 29, 2024

The Druze community of the Golan Heights mourns after a weekend rocket strike on a soccer field kills 12 children. The attack raises questions about the Druze identity— an Arab minority group that can claim Israeli citizenship.

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The war against Hamas is taking a toll on Israel's economy and military

1:35pm July 29, 2024

by Leila Fadel

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Daniel Byman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the military case for Israel supporting a ceasefire.

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Some Jewish Israelis are making the choice to leave Israel over the war in Gaza

1:35pm July 29, 2024

by Hadeel Al-Shalchi

Many Jewish Israelis are looking for ways to leave the country after Oct. 7, saying they don't feel safe in Israel anymore and that their government has failed them.

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Israel blames Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike in the Golan Heights

1:35pm July 29, 2024

After a strike this weekend that killed 12 children in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is an all out war between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah likely?

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GAZA BOMBING & GOLAN HEIGHTS STRIKE

3:46pm July 28, 2024

A rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 children on a soccer field yesterday. Israel blames the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which denies responsibility for the attack.

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A rocket hit Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, after Israel struck a Gaza school

7:16pm July 27, 2024

A rocket has hit a sports complex filled with children playing soccer in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights region Saturday afternoon, on the same day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a school building and killed dozens.

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One boy's story shows the impact of rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank

3:45pm July 27, 2024

by Ayman Oghanna

A deadly incident changed the life of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Rocket attack on Israeli-controlled Golan Heights kills 10, rescue official says

2:02pm July 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

A attack on a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights wounded several other people hours after an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon killed three members of Hezbollah.

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At least 30 dead in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike hits a school used as a shelter

1:53pm July 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

The school, where thousands were sheltering, was being used by displaced Palestinians and the deaths included several children. Israel's military said it was targeting a Hamas command center.

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Harris asks Americans not to see the war in Gaza through a 'binary lens'

4:45pm July 26, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. After the meeting what did she say about the humanitarian crisis and negotiations toward a cease-fire deal?

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