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Another Israeli attack hits a UN school in Gaza that was sheltering families

9:35pm July 17, 2024

by Jane Arraf

Israeli airstrikes have hit several UNRWA schools where people are sheltering, The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 23 people, many of them women and children, were killed and more than 70 wounded.

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A Hezbollah spokesman tells NPR it will stop firing if fighting in Gaza ends

4:55pm July 17, 2024

by Jane Arraf

The war in Gaza is more than nine months old. Fears are growing that ongoing cross-border strikes between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah could escalate into all-out war in the north as well.

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A Gaza Detainee Speaks

4:24pm July 16, 2024

Ever since the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7th, Israel had detained thousands of Palestinians from Gaza. We hear the story of one radiologist who says he endured beatings and mistreatment during seven months in Israeli detention.

For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to npr.org/mideastupdates

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A radiologist in Gaza says he endured beatings while detained in Israel

3:20pm July 16, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

A radiologist in Gaza tells NPR he endured beatings and mistreatment during seven months in Israeli detention. Israel has incarcerated thousands of Gazans since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

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Dozens of Palestinians were killed as Israel targeted 2 Hamas military leaders

2:25pm July 15, 2024

by Hadeel Al-Shalchi

At least 90 Palestinians were killed in an airstrike that the Israeli military said was targeting two top Hamas military leaders -- the most senior of whom has evaded assassination multiple times.

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Food aid is piling up inside Gaza. Here's why it's not reaching those in need

9:37am July 15, 2024

Israel says large quantities of food aid are piling up just inside the Gaza border. Aid groups say Israeli military operations and other obstacles prevent its delivery to desperate Palestinians.

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U.N. peacekeepers take cover as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks

6:02am July 15, 2024

by Jane Arraf

“The situation is really quite volatile,” Capt. Alessandro Crepy, with the Italian contingent of the peacekeeping group UNIFIL, says of the fighting between forces in Israel and Lebanon.

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Israel targets Hamas commander in airstrikes that kill 90 Palestinians

4:10pm July 13, 2024

The powerful Israeli strike was directed at the head of the Hamas military wing, Mohammed Deif. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged he didn't have definitive information on Deif's fate.

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Israeli military strikes humanitarian zone in Gaza, targeting Hamas leader

2:10pm July 13, 2024

Israeli forces struck a humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip, targeting the chief of the armed wing of Hamas. Dozens of people were reported killed.

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Iranian rights activist Masih Alinejad speaks during a press conference in association with the World Liberty Congress to urge action on political prisoners around the world in Washington, DC, on March 12.

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When a Foreign Government is Trying to Kill You on U.S. Soil

4:56pm July 12, 2024

The United States Justice Department says it has foiled at least four assassination plots sponsored by foreign governments on U.S. soil. One of the targets of those assassination attempts is Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and activist who Iran allegedly tried to have killed in New York. We hear how knowing she is at such risk has turned Alinejad's life upside down.

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