Gaza
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World
As Gaza War Grinds On, Israel Prepares for a Prolonged Conflict
While Israeli forces have delivered a major blow to Hamas in a fight that has taken a devastating toll on civilians, the group that led the Oct. 7 attack on Israel remains a threat, officials say.
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Newyork
A Special Anguish Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel
As the rest of the world watches the Gaza war with horror, one community is following it with a particular kind of anguish: the Palestinian citizens of Israel. They are connected by family ties, language, culture and history to their fellow ...
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Newyork
The Trauma Experienced in Gaza Is Beyond PTSD
“We will die. All of us. Hopefully soon enough to stop the suffering that we are living through every single second.” Those words were sent in a text last week by a physician working for Doctors Without Borders in the southern Gaza Strip. And it is ...
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World
In Brazil, Blinken intervenes in a dispute with Israel.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken confronted President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on Wednesday about his recent sharp comments on Israel, including the Brazilian leader’s comparison of Israel’s attacks in Gaza to the Holocaust. The ...
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World
Amid Food Shortages, People in Gaza Are Ambushing Aid Convoys
Amid widespread food shortages and a breakdown in civil order, groups of desperate civilians in Gaza are regularly attempting to ambush aid convoys, according to two Western officials who were recently in the enclave and images of one such ambush ...
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World
Israeli Military Releases Videos It Says Shows Bibas Family Members in Captivity on Oct. 7
Relatives of an Israeli mother and child who appeared to be shown in captivity in Gaza in newly released videos from the day of the Hamas-led attack said Tuesday they hoped the footage would call attention to the urgency of freeing the hostages. The ...
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World
Brazil’s President Angers Israel After Comparing War in Gaza to the Holocaust
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, drew the ire of Israeli authorities on Sunday after he compared Israel’s actions in the war against Hamas to the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed six million Jews in a systematic roundup in Europe during ...
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World
Israelis, Newly Vulnerable, Remain Traumatized and Mistrustful
After the Hamas invasion on Oct. 7, Doron Shabty and his wife and their two small children hid in Sderot, near the border with Gaza, and survived. A reservist in the infantry, he went into the army the next day. He just returned after more than 100 ...
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Newyork
Hochul Apologizes After Implying Israel Has a Right to Destroy Gaza
In remarks made at a Jewish philanthropy event, Gov. Kathy Hochul said that if Canada attacked the United States as Hamas did Israel, “there would be no Canada the next day.”
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World
Hundreds Flee Southern Gaza Hospital After Israel Orders Evacuation
Hundreds of displaced Palestinians were fleeing a major hospital in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to doctors and videos from the scene, after Israeli forces ordered them to leave and threatened military action to stop what it said was Hamas ...