Coverage of the Israel-Hamas war
Coverage of the Israel-Hamas war from Feb. 24, 2024, through July 29, 2024.
Israeli media report progress on reaching a temporary truce in Gaza and a hostage-prisoner exchange
Tia Goldenberg, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of blocking aid to Palestinians in violation of a UN court order
Wafaa Shurafa, Tia Goldenberg and Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
Israel and Hamas indicate no deal is imminent after Biden signals Gaza cease-fire could be close
Tia Goldenberg, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
- Wafaa Shurafa, Kareem Chehayeb and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.
- Zeke Miller, Aamer Madhani and Matthew Lee | Associated Press
Biden said the airdrops would begin soon and that the United States was looking into additional ways to facilitate getting badly needed aid into the war-battered territory to ease the suffering of Palestinians.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue | Associated Press
At least 115 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others were injured Thursday, according to health officials, when witnesses said nearby Israeli troops opened fire as huge crowds raced to pull goods off an aid convoy.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Residents have taken to searching piles of rubble and garbage for anything to feed their children, who barely eat one meal a day.
- Tia Goldenberg, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Netanyahu has tanked in popularity since the war broke out, according to most opinion polls, with many Israelis holding him responsible for Hamas’ cross-border raid.
- Drew Callister | Associated Press
Omar Abu Kuwaik was brought out of Gaza and to the United States, where he received treatment, including a prosthetic arm.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The strikes often come without warning, usually in the middle of the night.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
Hamas has rejected earlier allegations that its fighters committed sexual assault.
- Aamer Madhani and Seung Min Kim | Associated Press
Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, is sitting down with several senior Biden administration officials this week.
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- Samy Magdy, Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Hamas has refused to release all of the estimated 100 hostages it holds, and the remains of around 30 more, unless Israel ends its offensive, withdraws from the territory and releases a large number of Palestinian prisoners.
- Farnoush Amiri and Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated Press
What had been dissent from independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and a small group of progressive Democrats has swelled in response to the soaring death toll in Gaza.
- Joseph Krauss | Associated Press
Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar has reason to believe that as long as he holds the hostages, he can eventually end the war on his terms.
- Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Many of the estimated 300,000 people still living in the isolated northern part of Gaza have been reduced to eating animal fodder to survive.
- Samy Magdy and Abby Sewell | Associated Press
Hamas has said it will not release all of the remaining hostages without a full Israeli withdrawal from the territory.
- Associated Press
“Settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.â€
- Mohamed Jahjouh, Jack Jeffery and Lee Keath | Associated Press
Israel largely shut off entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies after launching its assault on Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
Palestinians in Gaza begin Ramadan with hunger worsening and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
There was little to celebrate after five months of war that has killed over 30,000 Palestinians and left much of Gaza in ruins.
- Farnoush Amiri | Associated Press
Democrats facing challengers include Reps. Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar and Summer Lee. All have not only called for a cease-fire but have demanded an end to U.S. aid to Israel.
- Mohammed Jahjouh and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
“Ramadan this year is starvation, pain, and loss. People who should have been on the table with us have gone.â€
- Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
They believe Israel is key to an end-times prophecy that will bring about the return of the Christian Messiah.
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
Israel claims Hamas maintains four battalions in Rafah it wants to destroy.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
The U.S. draft would demand that all parties comply with international law requiring protection of civilians and “civilian objects,†which include hospitals, schools and homes.
- Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The talks would mark the first time both Israeli officials and Hamas leaders joined the indirect negotiations since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
People sheltering in the hospital said Israeli forces backed by tanks and artillery had surrounded the medical complex early Monday and that snipers were shooting at people inside.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
In northern Gaza, 70% of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
The European Union’s top diplomat said the impending famine was “entirely manmade†as “starvation is used as a weapon of war.â€
- Jill Colvin | Associated Press
Trump was responding to a question about Democrats’ growing criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The Israeli military said it raided Shifa early Monday because Hamas fighters had grouped in the hospital and were directing attacks from inside.
- Associated Press
With 1.4 million Palestinians jammed into the town, Israel’s allies, including the U.S., have demanded greater care for civilians in its anticipated incursion.
A firework is lit, a boy is shot. Israel’s use of deadly force against Palestinians is scrutinized
- Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
Lethal force was not justified in many of the deaths of Palestinian children, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says.
- Samy Magdy, Amr Nabil and Sam Metz | Associated Press
“Any further onslaught will make things even worse — worse for Palestinian civilians, worse for hostages and worse for all people in the region,†U.N. Secretary-General António GuterresÌýsaid.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Now in its sixth month, the war between Israel and Hamas has killed at least 32,226 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel says it has killed over 13,000 militants, without providing evidence.
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- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
The United States abstained. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately canceled a planned visit to Washington by a high-level delegation to protest the decision.
- Tia Goldenberg, Jack Jeffery and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Hamas has said it will hold onto the hostages until Israel agrees to a more permanent cease-fire, withdraws its forces from Gaza and releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including top militants.
- Mohammad Zaatari and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
It was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the border.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
After nearly six months of war, Gaza’s health sector has been decimated.
- Associated Press
Thursday’s order came after South Africa sought more provisional measures, including a cease-fire, citing starvation in Gaza. Israel urged the court not to issue new orders.
- Bassem Mroue and Albert Aji | Associated Press
A war monitor says 44 people are dead, most of them Syrian troops.Ìý
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
“We know that people are suffering in Gaza so we carry them in our prayers and pray that peace can return to this land.â€
- Associated Press
But the Palestinian Authority has little popular support or legitimacy among Palestinians.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Tens of thousands of people have sought shelter in Gaza’s hospitals since the start of the war, viewing them as relatively safe from airstrikes.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
They urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free dozens of hostages held by the Hamas militant group in Gaza and to hold early elections.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
The heavy fighting showed that Hamas can still put up resistance even in one of the hardest-hit areas of Gaza.
- Kareem Chehayeb and Albert Aji | Associated Press
The strike appears to signify an escalation of Israel’s targeting of Iranian military officials and their allies in Syria, which have intensified since Hamas militants — who are supported by Iran — attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
- Nasser Karimi and Kareen Chehayeb | Associated Press
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, a key decision-making body, met late Monday and decided on a “required†response to the strike.
- Sarah El Deeb | Associated Press
It took a unit of 14 Israeli soldiers storming Heba al-Haddad’s apartment to force her out.
- Associated Press
Killed were three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian.
- Ashraf Khalil | Associated Press
“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon,â€ÌýÌýJosé Andrés said.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that the country’s forces had carried out the “unintended strike ... on innocent people.â€
- Mohammad Jahhouh and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Israel said it carried out the strikes by mistake and that it has launched an independent investigation into how it happened.
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
International law prohibits attacks on military targets that will likely cause disproportionate harm to civilians.
- Jill Lawless | Associated Press
Calls for an end to arms exports have escalated since an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from the aid charity World Central Kitchen, three of them British.
- Jill Colvin | Associated Press
“Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people. And that’s a very simple statement,†Trump said.
- Associated Press
Thousands marched in Tehran chanting “death to Israel†and “death to America†during the killed officers’ funeral procession.
- Jamey Keaten | Associated Press
The 47-member-country Human Rights Council on Friday voted 28-6 in favor of the resolution, with 13 abstentions.Ìý
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The findings of a retired general’s investigation into the Monday killings are likely to renew skepticism over the Israeli military’s decision-making.
- Dee-Ann Durbin | AP Business Writer
Alonyal Limited sparked controversy in October when it announced on social media that McDonald’s was providing free meals for Israeli soldiers.
- Samy Magdy and Sam Metz | Associated Press
At least 36 hostages in captivity have been confirmed dead, while about half of the original number have been released.
- Lee Keath | Associated Press
The Israeli military seems to have given itself wide leeway to determine what is a target and how many civilian deaths it allows as “collateral damage,†they say.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
“They left nothing there.â€
- Mike Corder | Associated Press
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Germany is second only to the U.S. in supplying arms to Israel.
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- Suzan Fraser | Associated Press
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is faced with intense pressure at home to halt trade with Israel.
- Bill Barrow | Associated Press
“Jewish Americans do not need to be ‘spoken to’ or threatened by Donald Trump,†said Biden spokesman James Singer.
- Tia Goldenberg, Jack Jeffery and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
In recent weeks Biden’s patience with Netanyahu has appeared to be waning and his administration has taken a sterner line with Israel.
- Hillel Italie | AP National Writer
PEN’s response to Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been widely criticized by writers who believe the organization has failed to fully condemn the war.
- Jack Jeffrey and Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The violence was the latest in an escalation in the West Bank that has accompanied the war in the Gaza Strip.
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
The Biden administration does not want Iran’s assault to spiral into a broader military conflict.
Israel orders eviction of Palestinian family from east Jerusalem property, reigniting a legal battle
- Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has been the focus of a long-running battle between government-backed Israeli settlers and longtime Palestinian residents.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Northern Gaza was an early target of Israel’s war against Hamas and vast parts of it have been flattened, forcing much of the area’s population to flee south.
- Josef Federman | Associated Press
The Iranian attack on Saturday came in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike two weeks earlier on an Iranian consular building in the Syrian capital of Damascus that killed two Iranian generals.
- Julia Frankel and Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
A direct Israeli attack on Iranian soil would lead to major fallout.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
Tackling famine in war-torn Gaza requires not only food but sanitation, water and health facilities.
- Thomas Adamson | Associated Press
The photograph, taken in Khan Younis, shows 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar holding 5-year-old Saly, who was killed in an Israeli missile strike.ÌýÌý
- Josef Federman and Jon Gambrell | Associated Press
The facility at Isfahan operates three small Chinese-supplied research reactors, as well as handling fuel production and other activities for Iran's civilian nuclear program.
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- Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an already volatile Middle East.
- Mohammad Jahjouh | Associated Press
“This child should have been in the mother’s womb at this time, but she was deprived of this right.â€
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva’s resignation could set the stage for more resignations among Israel’s top security brass over Hamas’ attack.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
It says Israel has yet to provide evidence to support claims that “a significant number of UNRWA employees are members of terrorist organizations.â€
- Karen Matthews and Nick Perry | Associated Press
The protests have pitted students against one another.
- Jim Vertuno, Acacia Coronado and Nick Perry | Associated Press
While grappling with growing protests from coast to coast, schools have the added pressure of May commencement ceremonies.
- Abby Sewell | Associated Press
The suggestion that Hamas would disarm appeared to be a significant concession by the militant group officially committed to Israel’s destruction.
- Mohammad Jahjouh and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
“My brother’s family is completely wiped out. It’s been deleted from the civil registry. There is no trace of him left behind.â€
- Ellen Knickmeyer, Farnoush Amiri and Matthew Lee | Associated Press
The U.S. declaration concerns a single Israeli unit and its actions against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
- Associated Press
Portland State University students and faculty are demanding that the school sever ties with Boeing because of its weapons manufacturing divisions and connections to Israel.
- James Pollard, Noreen Nasir and Nick Perry | Associated Press
Pressure builds on school officials, who are already scrambling to resolve the protests as May graduation ceremonies near.
- Farnoush Amiri and Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated Press
Protesters condemn both President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict and the Western news’ media coverage of it.
- Jake Offenhartz and Jonathan Mattise | Associated Press
Early protests at Columbia, where demonstrators set up tents in the center of the campus, sparked pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country.
- Mike Corder | Associated Press
The ICC was set up more than a decade ago to tackle impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and other grave crimes when states don’t prosecute them.
- Associated Press
China is attempting to position itself as a broker in the Middle East as an alternative to the U.S. and its Western allies.
- Mike Corder Associated Press
The International Court of Justice said that legal conditions for making such an order weren’t met and rejected the request in a 15-1 vote.
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
Israel and Hamas are negotiating a cease-fire agreement meant to free hostages and bring some relief to the nearly 7-month-long war.
- Cedar Attanasio, Jake Offenhartz and Jonathan Mattise | Associated Press
The takeover occurred nearly 12 hours after Monday’s 2 p.m. deadline for the protesters to leave an encampment of around 120 tents or face suspension.
- Jon Gambrell | Associated Press
The coverage included nearly breathless reporting from Iranian state television, which aired live video from the protests and police actions.
- John Antzak, Ethan Swope, Jake Offenhartz and Joseph B. Frederick | Associated Press
Police have swept through other campuses across the U.S. over the last two weeks, leading to confrontations and more than 1,000 arrests.
- Edith M. Lederer Associated Press
By mid-April, it said, over 33,000 Palestinians had been killed and more than 80,000 injured, the UN said.
- Associated Press
The Israel-Hamas war has driven around 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million from their homes, caused vast destruction in several towns and cities, and pushed northern Gaza to the brink of famine.
- Jesse Bedayn | Associated Press
Like many Americans, Jewish students’ views on the war in Gaza and the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict are wide-ranging and often nuanced.
- Kathleen Foody, Mike Catalini, Karen Matthews and Michael Hill | Associated Press
Deals included commitments by universities to review their investments in Israel or hear calls to stop doing business with the longtime U.S. ally.
- Ellen Knickmeyer and Russ Bynum | Associated Press
Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.
- Aamer Madhani | Associated Press
The U.S. administration still maintains that moving forward with an operation in Rafah would put too many innocent Palestinian civilians at risk.
- Sam Mednick and Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
Pressure has mounted to reach a deal halting the nearly 7-month-long war.
- Tia Goldenberg and Jon Gambrell | Associated Press
The move threatens to heighten tensions with Qatar at a time when the Doha government is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza.
- Josef Federman and Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
Israel didn’t send a delegation to the talks mediated by Egypt and Qatar.
- Zeke Miller and Aamer Madhani | Associated Press
On Sunday, Netanyahu rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day.
- Emily Wagster Pettus | Associated Press
A video from the Thursday confrontation showed a man appearing to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black woman.
- Sam Mednick, Josef Federman and Bassem Mroue | Associated Press
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the deal, and details of the proposal have not yet been released.
- Jack Suntrup
Green has been outspoken in her advocacy for PalestiniansÌýamid a wave of campus demonstrations across the country denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza.
- Samy Magdy, Melanie Lidman and Lee Keath | Associated Press
The Israeli incursion overnight appeared to be short of the full-fledged offensive into Rafah that Israel has planned, and it was not immediately known if it would be expanded.
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- Joseph Krauss, Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Israel now controls all of Gaza’s border crossings for the first time since it withdrew troops and settlers from the territory nearly two decades ago.
- Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated Press
A decision against close ally Israel would add to pressure on President Joe Biden to curb the flow of weapons and money to Israel’s military.
- Zeke Miller and Aamer Madhani | Associated Press
The U.S. has historically provided enormous amounts of military aid to Israel.
- Joseph Krauss, Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Officials warn of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the U.N. says a “full-blown famine†is already underway in the north.
- Joseph Kraus and Josef Federman | Associated Press
President Joe Biden said the United States would not provide offensive weapons for Israel’s long-promised assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
- Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
Nearly 800 settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been recorded since Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Joseph Krauss | Associated Press
Israel’s plans for a full-scale invasion of Rafah appear to be on hold for now, with the United States deeply opposed and stepping up pressure by threatening to withhold arms.
- Aamer Madhani, Ellen Knickmeyer, Mike Balsamo and Zeke Miller | Associated Press
The administration’s finding of “reasonable†evidence to conclude that its ally had breached international law in its conduct of the war in Gaza, released in a summary of a report being delivered to Congress on Friday, represents the strongest such statement from Biden officials.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
The renewed push for full Palestinian membership in the U.N. comes as the war in Gaza has put the more than 75-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict at center stage.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Sam Mednick and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The order comes in the face of heavy international opposition and criticism.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Joseph Krauss and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Gaza has been left without a functioning government, allowing Hamas to reconstitute itself in even the hardest-hit areas.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Joseph Krauss and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees said 360,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah over the past week, out of 1.3 million who were sheltering there before the operation began.
- The Associated Press
Around 450,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in Gaza’s south over the past week, the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday.
- Joseph Krauss | Associated Press
After the 1948 war, Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders.
- Joseph Krauss, Abby Sewell and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were driven out of what today is Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948.
- Noreen Nasir | Associated Press
Some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from what is now Israel in 1948.
US military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on
- Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press
The maritime route is designed to bolster the amount of aid getting into the Gaza Strip, but it is not considered a substitute for far cheaper land-based deliveries.
- Molly Quell | Associated Press
It is the fourth time South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice for emergency measures.
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- Molly Quell | Associated Press
The International Court of Justice on Friday wrapped up a third round of hearings on emergency measures requested by South Africa.
- Bassem Mroue | Associated Press
An Iran-led coalition known as the axis of resistance has warned that other fronts will escalate if Israeli troops launch a full-scale invasion of Rafah.
- Associated Press
The military said the bodies were found overnight, without elaborating, and did not give immediate details on where they were located.
- Sarah El Deeb | Associated Press
On May 6, Israeli troops seized Gaza’s nearby crossing into Egypt as they launched an incursion into the city of Rafah, closing the main entry and exit point for international humanitarian workers.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss | Associated Press
Palestinians reported more airstrikes and heavy fighting in northern Gaza, which has been largely isolated by Israeli troops for months and where the World Food Program says a famine is underway.
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- Josef Federman | Associated Press
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
France, as well as Belgium and Slovenia, each said Monday they backed the move by International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan.
- Tia Goldenberg and Julia Frankel | Associated Press
A growing body of evidence supports the claim that sexual assault took place that day, even as its scope remains difficult to ascertain.
- Joseph Wilson, Melanie Lidman and Joseph Krauss | Associated Press
Israel immediately denounced the decisions and recalled its ambassadors to the three countries.
- Mike Corder | Associated Press
Reaction in the U.S. has been negative. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Hague-based court doesn’t have jurisdiction; Senate Republicans have threatened sanctions against ICC staff.
- Associated Press
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a follower of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane, has been convicted eight times for offenses that include racism and supporting a terrorist organization.
- Joseph Krauss | Associated Press
Four scenarios emerge for ending Israel-Hamas war.Ìý
- Sam Mednick | Associated Press
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and abducted around 250 others in the Oct. 7 attack.
- Mike Corder | Associated Press
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also under heavy pressure at home to end the war.
- Eric Tucker and Aamer Madhani | Associated Press
Biden administration officials so far have appeared determined to press on with military and political support for Israel.
- Yesica Fisch | Associated Press
Protesters also called for the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded new elections.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
A spokesperson with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the death toll was likely to increase as search and rescue efforts continued.
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- Mohammed Zinaty | Associated Press
The Israelis were targeting a motorcyclist. The driver was killed.Ìý
- Melanie Lidman, Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The Gaza Health Ministry says 45 were killed, around half were women, children and older adults.
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- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Lee Keath | Associated Press
“The situation is tragic. You have 20 people in the tent, with no clean water, no electricity. We have nothing.â€
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The latest strikes occurred in the same area where Israel targeted what it said was a Hamas compound on Sunday night.
- Aamer Madhani | Associated Press
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Israel had not violated Biden’s “red line†for withholding future offensive arms transfers.
- Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said he was “expecting another seven months of fighting.â€
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
“Not every criticism against Israel is antisemitic,†said Tom Segev, an Israeli historian. “The moment you say it is antisemitic hate ... you take away all legitimacy from the criticism and try to crush the debate.â€
- Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The move could complicate relations with Egypt.
- Karen Matthews | Associated Press
Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza.
- Ali Zerdin | Associated Press
Motion sent to parliament for approval.
- Tara Copp and Josef Federman | Associated Press
Defense experts say the bombs used were likely GBU-39s made by Boeing in St. Charles.
- Aamere Madhani and Darlene Superville | Associated Press
“This is truly a decisive moment,†Biden said as he spoke of a three-phase deal that Israeli officials have offered Hamas.
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
Biden on Friday urged the Israelis and Hamas to come to a deal to release remaining hostages for an extended cease-fire.
- Sam Mednick and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Many hostage families blame the Israeli government’s lack of will to secure a deal for the deaths of many of the hostages in captivity.
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
Accusations of inhumane treatment at the Sde Teiman military field hospital are on the rise, and the Israeli government is under growing pressure to shut it down.
- Julia Frankel and Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
Admissions of guilt are rare.
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
Israel is expanding its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, once the main hub of humanitarian aid operations.
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
About 80 hostages in Gaza are believed to be alive.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
President Joe Biden’s three-phase plan isÌýaimed at ending the nearly eight-month war in Gaza, freeing all hostages and sending massive aid into the devastated territory.
- Associated Press
The Israeli military launched the assault on Jabaliya in early May, saying it was targeting Hamas militants who had regrouped there after repeated previous offensives in the densely built district.
- Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system in the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
Israeli nationalists march through Palestinian area of Jerusalem, some chanting ‘Death to Arabs’
- Julia Frankel and Moshe Edri | Associated Press
Police said they arrested five marchers for throwing objects at journalists.
- Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
The white-hot chemical substance can set buildings on fire and burn human flesh down to the bone.
- Joseph Wilson | Associated Press
“We take the decision because of the ongoing military operation in Gaza,†Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in Madrid.
- Eric Tucker | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Jonathan Dekel-Chen dreams of the moment when his abducted 35-year-old son, Sagui, is reunited with his wife and three young chil…
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The Israeli military claimed Hamas militants were operating from within the school.
- Abdulrahman Zeyad and Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
Iraqi governments have for years walked a delicate line between Washington and Tehran, but the eight-month war in Gaza has critically upped the stakes.
- Associated Press
Strikes hit the Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps and Deir al-Balah and Zawaiyda towns.
- Michael Weissenstein | Associated Press
The move heightened a long-running feud between Israel and the U.N., with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying, “The UN put itself on the black list of history today.â€
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- Sam Mednick, Jack Jeffrey and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
The rescue comes as international pressure mounts on Israel to limit civilian bloodshed in its war in Gaza, which reached its eighth month on Friday.
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- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The latest rescue lifted some spirits in Israel as divisions deepened over the best way to bring hostages home.
- Associated Press
“I encourage the international community to act urgently, with all means, to come to the aid of the people of Gaza, worn out by the war.â€
- Associated Press
Anne d’Aquino told students in May that they could write about the impact of “genocide in Gaza on human health and biology.â€
- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
“What will bring most of the hostages back home alive is a deal,â€ÌýRear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the IsraeliÌýarmy’s spokesman,Ìýtold reporters.
- Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
The draft resolution urges Israel and Hamas “to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition.â€
- Jamey Keaten | Associated Press
“It was catastrophic, the way that this was carried out in that civilians — again — were caught smack bang in the middle of this.â€
- Julia Frankel and Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
The departure of centrist Benny Gantz makes Netanyahu more heavily reliant on far-right allies.
- Associated Press
U.N.-backed human rights experts saidÌýIsraeli forces and Palestinian militants committed war crimes, while Israel was also said to have committed crimes against humanity.
- Bassem Mroue | Associated Press
The retaliatory attack came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in the region to push a cease-fire proposal with global support that has not been fully embraced by Israel or Hamas.
- Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Both Palestinians and Israelis are braced for disappointment.
- Jon Gambrell | Associated Press
The Houthi rebels’ former arsenal of assault rifles and pickup trucks has grown into a seemingly inexhaustible supply of drones, missiles and other weaponry.
- Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Palestinians in the coastal enclave of Gaza were not able to travel to Mecca for Hajj this year because of the closure of the Rafah crossing in May.
- Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
His comments sparked an uproar from families of hostages held by Hamas.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The territory’s ability to dispose of garbage, treat sewage and deliver clean water has been virtually decimated by eight brutal months of war between Israel and Hamas.
- Mohammad Jahjouh, Wafaa Shurafa and Kareen Chehayeb | Associated Press
The nearly nine-month Israel-Hamas war has devastated Gaza’s health sector and forced most of its hospitals to shut down.
- Julia Frankel and Maya Alleruzzo | Associated Press
Video showing the 24-year-old strapped to the jeep circulated on social media, sparking widespread condemnation, including from the United States.
- Ellen Knickmeyer and Aamer Madhani | Associated Press
On both sides of the Lebanese border, escalating strikes between Israel and Hezbollah, one of the region’s best-armed fighting forces, appeared at least to level off this past week
- Ohad Zwigenberg | Associated Press
Israeli police said protesters threw rocks and attacked the car of an ultra-Orthodox Cabinet minister, pelting it with stones.
- Mohammed Jahjouh, Samy Magdy and Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The release of Mohammed Abu Selmia without charge or trial raised further questions about Israel’s allegations regarding Shifa Hospital.
- Mohammad Jahjouh, Samy Magdy and Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The order suggested a new assault into the city was imminent.
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Lee Keath | Associated Press
The overnight strike hit a home near the European Hospital, which is inside the zone that Israel said should be evacuated.
- Abby Sewell and Sarah El Deeb | Associated Press
“If there is a cease-fire in Gaza, we will stop without any discussion,†Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, told The Associated Press.
- Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
A Hezbollah statement identified the killed commander as Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who went by the name “Abu Naameh,†his nom de guerre.
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The land appropriation was likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
- Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Gaza is “the only place in the world where people cannot find a safe refuge, and can’t leave the front line,†a UN official says.
- Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
There is an increasingly real possibility of a full-scale war — one that would have catastrophic consequences for people on both sides of the border.
- Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of the largest in the monthslong conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border, with tensions escalating in recent weeks.
- Tia Goldenberg and Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
Word of the decision emerged as an Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to send negotiators to resume Gaza cease-fire talks.
- Associated Press
Palestinian authorities say seven people were killed Friday during the Israeli military operation.
- Caleb Diehl and Joseph Federman | Associated Press
The international community considers the settlements illegal or illegitimate.
- Associated Press
“There is no safe place,†said Um Ahmad, a displaced woman. “Safety is with God.â€
- Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Violence also flared Friday in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces killed seven people in a raid and an airstrike, according to Palestinian health officials.
- Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
All sides cautioned that a deal is still not guaranteed.
- Ohad Zwigenberg | Associated Press
Israel says it has nearly defeated Hamas forces in Rafah — an area identified earlier this year as the militant group’s last stronghold in Gaza.
- Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
The demonstrations come as international mediators have renewed efforts to broker a deal.
- Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
The fighting comes as Israel and Hamas appeared to be the closest they have been in months to agreeing to a cease-fire deal.
- Mohammed Jahjouh and Fatma Khaled | Associated Press
Israel has driven some 1.9 million of Gaza’s pre-war population of 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Much of Gaza City and urban areas around it have been flattened or left a shattered landscape after nine months of fighting.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Second straight night of Israeli strikes in the central town of Deir al-Balah and nearby refugee camps came amid talks trying to push through a long-elusive deal for a cease-fire and hostage release.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Israel informed people in Gaza of the evacuation order by dropping leaflets urging “all those in Gaza City†to take two “safe routes†south to the area around the central town of Deir al-Balah.
- Associated Press
Israel’s campaign in Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, has killed or wounded more than 5% of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
- Oded Balilty and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Hamas militants killed roughly 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7 and kidnapped around 250 — many taken from their bedrooms.
- Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
The grisly scenes of the dead being brought into a nearby hospital underscored the horrifying cycle nine months into the Gaza war.
- Mohamed Jahjouh and Josef Federman | Associated Press
The strike took place in an area Israel’s military had designated as safe for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Israel’s massive airstrike on Saturday killed at least 90 people, including children, local health officials said.
- Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb | Associated Press
Mohammed Baraa Katerji was killed when a drone strike hit his car in the area of Saboura, a few miles inside Syria after apparently crossing from Lebanon.
- Uri Blau and Milan Czerny of Shomrim | Josef Federman of The Associated Press
They slow the delivery of aid by blocking trucks on their way to Gaza, either by snarling traffic or simply standing in front of the main Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.
- Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
The deaths in Nuseirat and Zawaida included 10 women and four children.
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- Abdel Kereem Hana, Wafaa Shurafa and Drew Callister | Associated Press
“What did he do wrong, my God? What did he do wrong?â€
- Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Human Rights Watch said the acts of the Palestinian fighters met the international legal definition for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
- Sarah El Deeb | Associated Press
Israel’s 9-month-old war with Hamas in Gaza has decimated the territory’s medical system.
- Fatma Khaled and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
The trauma has been relentless.
- Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
The visit comes just days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves for a trip to the United States, where he will address Congress.
- Julia Frankel | Associated Press
The U.N. has documented 1,000 settler attacks in the West Bank in the nine months since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, averaging four attacks a day.
- Melanie Lidman and Sam Metz | Associated Press
The aerial strike is the first lethal Houthi attack in Israel.
- Mike Corder | Associated Press
The resounding breadth of the decision could impact international opinion and fuel moves for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery | Associated Press
A medical team recovered a live baby from a heavily pregnant Palestinian mother killed in an airstrike that hit her home in Nuseirat late Thursday evening.
- Associated Press
The Israeli strikes appeared to be the first on Yemeni soil since the Israel-Hamas war began in October.
- Associated Press
Hezbollah’s attack came few hours after an Israeli drone strike hit a car in the southern Lebanese village of Burj al-Muluk, and shrapnel from the missile wounded several people who were standing nearby.
- Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
The latest strikes occurred as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to leave Monday for the United States.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Many Palestinians have been uprooted multiple times in search of safety during Israeli’s air and ground campaign.
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- Ellen Knickmeyer, Ashraf Khalik and Farnoush Amiri | Associated Press
At stake in the visit are hopes for progress in U.S.-led efforts to mediate an end to the nine-month Israel-Hamas war.
- Jack Jeffery, Tia Goldenberg and Huizhong Wu | Associated Press
The declaration by the two heavyweights of Palestinian politics to form a unity government for the Palestinian territories is the result of the latest in a series of talks meant to unite the sides.
- Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
Some of those outposts have been linked to settler violence against Palestinians and are sanctioned by the U.S.
- Ashraf Khalil | Associated Press
Some of the demonstrations have condemned Israel, but others have expressed support while pressing Netanyahu to strike a cease-fire deal in the war with Hamas and bring home the hostages still being held by the militant group.
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- Ellen Knickmeyer, Farnoush Amiri and Ashraf Khalil | Associated Press
The Israeli prime minister, in a scathing speech to Congress, vows ‘total victory’ in Gaza.
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- Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press
He gave no sign of substantive progress on a cease-fire deal that could free the hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza.
- Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press
Israel’s campaign of bombardment and offensives in Gaza has left thousands of orphans.
- Wafaa Shurafa and Sam Metz | Associated Press
Israel’s military said it was targeting a Hamas command and control center used to store weapons and plan attacks.
- Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy | Associated Press
Overnight, the Israeli military said it struck a number of targets inside Lebanon.
- Associated Press
The Turkish president made statements that seemed to threaten to invade over Gaza
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