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Israeli protesters block highways, call for cease-fire to return hostages 9 months into war in Gaza
Marking nine months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters blocked highways across the country calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and pushing for a cease-fire that could bring back hostages held by Hamas.
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Gaza soccer stadium is now a shelter for thousands of displaced Palestinians
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Rafah is a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town 2 months after Israel invaded to root out Hamas
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A look at how settlements have grown in the West Bank over the years
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Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire in Gaza after dropping key demand, officials say
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More coverage of the war
The Latest | Hamas says ‘positive response’ from mediators to its cease-fire amendments
A spokesperson for Hamas says the group’s proposed amendments to the most recent U.S. plan for a cease-fire in Gaza “have been met with a positive response by the mediators.”
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Israeli strikes kill 6 in Gaza, including kids and UN worker, as truce talks show signs of progress
Separate Israeli airstrikes have killed at least six people in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one person wearing a United Nations uniform.
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Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-liner against reformist after record low turnout
Iran has held a runoff presidential election pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker.
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Israel weighs Hamas’ latest response to Gaza cease-fire proposal as diplomatic efforts are revived
Israel’s Cabinet is set to convene to discuss Hamas’ latest response to a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire in Gaza.
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Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 new homes in West Bank settlements
An Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group says the government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander
The Lebanese Hezbollah group says it’s launched over 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
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Fires have become the most visible sign of the conflict heating up on the Lebanon-Israel border
With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have sparked fires that are tearing through forests and farmland on both sides of the frontline.
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Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ where food is scarce and Israel strikes without warning
Palestinian hospital authorities and witnesses say an Israeli airstrike slammed into a residential building right next to the main medical center in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
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The Latest | Israel kills a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon; group retaliates with rocket attacks
Israel killed a senior commander in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the second top field leader killed in less than a month.
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Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades
A settlement tracking group says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.
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Strike kills family as Israeli evacuation order sparks panicked flight from southern Gaza city
An Israeli airstrike has killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an Israeli-designated safe zone.
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Hezbollah’s deputy leader says group would stop fighting with Israel after Gaza cease-fire
The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza.
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The Latest | Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israel says 1.9 million are crammed in central Gaza
A new Israeli evacuation order has sent Palestinians in Gaza streaming out of eastern Khan Younis, the second-largest city in the war-torn territory.
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Lawsuit accuses Iran, Syria and North Korea of providing support for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel
Victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel are suing Iran, Syria and North Korea, saying their governments supplied the militants with money, weapons and know-how needed to carry out the assault that precipitated Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
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Israel orders Palestinians to flee Khan Younis, signaling likely new assault on southern Gaza city
The Israeli army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis.
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The Latest | Israel appears set to reinvade a city in Gaza filled with displaced civilians
The Israeli army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the eastern half of Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza that’s currently filled with displaced civilians.
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Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank kills a Palestinian militant and wounds 5 other people
Palestinian health officials say Israeli troops have carried out an airstrike in the northern West Bank, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding five other people.
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The UN starts to move tons of aid from US-built pier after security fears suspended work there
The United Nations says workers have begun moving tons of humanitarian aid that had been piled up at a United States-built pier off Gaza’s coast and distributing it to warehouses in the besieged territory.
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US and Europe warn Lebanon’s Hezbollah to ease strikes on Israel and back off from wider Mideast war
U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months.
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This is how the US-built pier to bring aid to Gaza has worked — or not
The U.S. military-built pier has been pulled again from the Gaza shore due to rough seas, and its future role in the distribution of aid to Palestinians is uncertain.
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US removes Gaza aid pier due to weather and may not put it back, officials say
U.S. officials say the pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again.
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The Latest | ‘Carry your son and run’: Gaza families describe fleeing Rafah under Israeli fire
Displaced Palestinian families in southern Gaza have fled intensifying Israeli fire in the north Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere.
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Dutch rights groups go back to court seeking to limit export of fighter jet parts to Israel
Human rights groups in the Netherlands have returned to court to again call for stricter enforcement of a court order to halt Dutch exports to Israel of parts for F-35 fighter jets used in the war in Gaza.
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US shifts assault ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflict
The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp has entered the eastern Mediterranean Sea as the U.S. positions warships to try to keep fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon from escalating into a wider war in the Middle East.
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Iran votes in a snap poll for a new president. Here’s what’s at stake
Iranians have voted in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy.
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Survivors of Israel music festival massacre unite to build a healing community
In the months since Hamas’ surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel have come together as a community to heal.
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As LGBTQ+ Pride’s crescendo approaches, tensions over war in Gaza expose rifts
Tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas have seeped into the festivities at LGBTQ+ Pride events across the U.S.
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Pennsylvania Senate passes bill to bar universities and pension funds from divesting from Israel
Pennsylvania’s Senate has advanced legislation that would block state aid to any university that boycotts or divests from Israel.
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UN Security Council demands Iran-backed Yemen rebels halt their attacks on ships in Mideast waters
The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Yemen’s Houthi rebels halt all attacks on ships and urged that disruptions to maritime security be addressed, without mentioning the link between the Iran-backed rebels and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
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Feds investigating violence during pro-Palestinian protest outside Los Angeles synagogue
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says federal officials are investigating a weekend demonstration against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that spiraled into violence outside a Los Angeles synagogue.
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