Gaza
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World
Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Worsens as Israel Prepares a Possible Invasion
Six days of Israeli airstrikes have left more than 300,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip homeless, with two million residents facing critical shortages of food, water and fuel, while Israeli troops prepared on Thursday for a possible ground invasion ...
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Newyork
Columbia University Closes Campus Ahead of Israel-Hamas War Protests
Columbia University closed its campus to the public on Thursday ahead of a planned protest against the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, and one day after a 24-year-old Israeli student was beaten in front of a library on campus. The assault of the ...
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World
This Hospital in Gaza Is Running Short on Fuel and Beds
Ambulances, yellow cabs and cars scream up to the entrance of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza in a nonstop convoy, rushing in both broken and lifeless bodies. Inside, hospital staff scramble to treat the wounded who are crammed into corridors that are also ...
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World
U.N. Official Warns of ‘Huge Disaster’ in Gaza as Israel Strikes Back at Hamas
A United Nations official called the suffering of people in Gaza on Thursday “absolutely horrible,” as Israel continued pummeling the crowded, blockaded territory in retaliation for the deadly weekend incursion by Hamas, the armed Palestinian ...
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Newyork
What More Must the Children of Gaza Suffer?
The bomb exploded a few hundred feet from where I was sitting with my wife, Safa, and my three children, Ali, Karam and Adam. Ali, 13, screamed; Karam, 10, buried his face in my chest; and Adam, 5, burst into tears. We were in the outdoor area at the ...
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Newyork
Seeking a Moral Compass in Gaza’s War
The terror attacks by Hamas against civilians who were in their homes and dancing at a concert are being called Israel’s Sept. 11, and that’s a fair comparison. Let’s hope that Israel responds to this outrage more wisely than we in the United States ...
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Newyork
The Gaza Trap
Four days after Hamas’s attack, Israel appeared poised to order a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. With more than 1,000 killed in Israel and 2,600 wounded in the most deadly incursion on Israeli territory in its history, the government ...
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World
How Israel’s Feared Security Services Failed to Stop Hamas’s Attack
Israel’s military and espionage services are considered among the world’s best, but on Saturday, operational and intelligence failures led to the worst breach of Israeli defenses in half a century.
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World
What Does a ‘Complete Siege’ of the Gaza Strip Mean?
Israel’s defense minister’s order to place a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip came on top of a 16-year blockade that Israel, often along with Egypt, has imposed on the coastal territory. The announcement by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday ...
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World
Peace Activists Are Among the Israelis Missing and Killed
On the Israeli side of the Gaza border lie a number of residential collectives whose members tend to be left of center and supportive of peace initiatives and Palestinian rights. Many of those residents were among the missing or dead after Hamas’s ...