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Palestine

Two people standing on a red-carpeted stage, with the man in a suit raising his fist and the woman looking at him, engaged in conversation.
Obituary
Remembering Jesse Jackson, who pushed to globalize the US civil rights movement
A busy urban street scene with pedestrians and a cyclist in the center, set against a backdrop of colorful buildings and vehicles.
Mexico sends aid to Cuba while navigating US pressure
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50:30
Israel’s government is taking more steps to assert control over the West Bank
4:55
Israel-Hamas war
More countries recognize the state of Palestine during UN General Assembly
6:45
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks via video link to UN General Assembly
1:11
US allies recognize Palestinian statehood at UN General Assembly
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50:20
US allies recognize Palestinian statehood at UN General Assembly
6:45
‘Tell the world I was here’: Documenting life in Gaza
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50:18
What Palestinian statehood recognition could mean: two perspectives
15:49
Explaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to children
7:18
Israel-Hamas war
For Palestinians, a grim reality in Gaza obscures the future
6:48
A main street on the edge of Mea She'arim, a Haredi (religious) neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Israel-Hamas war
Neturei Karta: an Orthodox Jewish sect that doesn’t believe in the concept of a Jewish state of Israel
people amid explosion
Israel-Hamas war
A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
A Palestinian man walks between scorched cars in a scrapyard, in the town of Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Feb. 27, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
Israel beefs up troops after unprecedented settler rampage
A banner with a picture of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail reads in Arabic "Karim Younis, the icon of patience and will, 35 years in captivity, for how long," in the West Bank city of Ramallah
Conflict & Justice
Israel releases longest-serving Palestinian prisoner
Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network who was shot and killed in Jenin
Violence
Al Jazeera reporter killed during Israeli raid in West Bank
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card
Top of The World
Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.
Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the flags of the United Arab Emirates and Israel as the countries announced they would soon be establishing full diplomatic ties, Aug. 13, 2020. 
Conflict
UAE-Israel normalization: A ‘real breakthrough’ for Arab Gulf state, former ambassador says
Parenting Challenges in the Era of COVID-19: Balancing Work and Kids 2020-07-06
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A photo of the West Bank.
Borders
Former US ambassador: Israel would be ‘making itself an international outlaw’ with West Bank annexation
Divide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic “Anti-Hate” Measure
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Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib, founder of the Museum of Memories in Beirut. He started the museum with a question for one of his patients: Do you have something from Palestine?
Conflict
Objects from Palestine are now enshrined at a makeshift museum in this Beirut refugee camp
Wealth In America: What Is It? And Who’s Got It?
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Arts, Culture & Media
“Waltz With Bashir”
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Yasmeen Mjalli
Arts
She started #NotYourHabibti to shine a light on sexual harassment in the Palestinian territories
A worker prepares lights ahead of Christmas celebrations in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Dec. 19, 2017.
Global Politics
Christmas in Bethlehem goes on in the shadow of Trump’s Jerusalem announcement
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock.
Conflict
Why moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is so controversial
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with White House senior advisor Jared Kushner in the West Bank City of Ramallah on June 21, 2017.
Conflict
New leak: Jared Kushner says there may be ‘no solution’ to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Palestinians stand behind a fence as they wait for the arrival of their relatives at Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
Conflict
Islamic Jihad rejects Palestine state within 1967 borders
Democratic Split, Comedian Ali Wong, A Defense of Zoos
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Video Game Fame, Covering Israel, and Wendell Pierce From ‘The Wire’
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Video Game Fame, Covering Israel, and Wendell Pierce From ‘The Wire’
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Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh
Conflict
It was exhaustion, more than a real desire for peace, that fueled the latest cease-fire in Gaza
A protester picks up a gas canister to throw back towards the police after tear gas was fired at demonstrators during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri.
Justice
Palestinians and Missourians find common cause amidst the tear gas
The "psychedelic fun-house mirror" of Israeli TV showing Hamas TV showing Israeli TV.
Conflict
There’s one place where Israelis and Hamas speak directly — on TV
An Israeli soldier stands at a staging area after crossing back into Israel from Gaza on July 28, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
Israel’s operation widens, but its objectives are getting murkier
An Israeli soldier stands at a staging area after crossing back into Israel from Gaza on July 28, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
Israel’s operation widens, but its objectives are getting murkier
Children, who are internally displaced due to the fighting between rebels and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, play inside Al-Tah camp in the southern Idlib countryside July 4, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
Children tell their own grim stories from war zones
A Palestinian man holds a girl at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. Medics said she was injured in shelling at a U.N-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees on July 24, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
After civilians are killed at a UN school in Gaza, Palestinians wonder if any place is safe
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike over the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday. Military and civilian casualties are mounting as Israeli forces push into urban areas like this.
Conflict & Justice
How Hamas is taking on the Middle East’s most powerful army — and holding its own
Israeli soldiers mourn the death of their fallen comrade, Bnaya Rubel during his funeral in Holon, Israel on July 20, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
Israeli soldiers say they’re fighting an improved Hamas — and paying a steep price
Palestinians fled in a vehicle Monday from Israeli shelling in Bet Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip.
Conflict & Justice
Civilians in Gaza City say nowhere is safe amidst the Israeli assault on Hamas targets
An Israeli soldier sits on top of his tank in the northern Gaza Strip.
Conflict & Justice
For Israelis, the ground operation is a success — for Gazans, it has just heightened the violence
Conflict & Justice
US citizens of Palestinian descent remain stuck in the Gaza Strip
Palestinians look at the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip July 14, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
Gaza’s normally bustling streets turn eerily empty as residents flee bombings
Smoke rises from buildings following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike, as Palestinians search for victims under the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in another Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 1
Conflict & Justice
More than 100 Gazans are dead and there’s no sign of an end to the killing
Conflict & Justice
‘We rebuild and then it gets destroyed again,’ says a Gaza resident as airstrikes pound his city
Palestinians in Gaza City gather around the remains of a car which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday.
Conflict & Justice
Israel and Hamas seem to be moving toward all-out war
Suha, mother of 16 year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, shows a picture of her son on her mobile phone at their home in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem. News of the discovery of Mohammed's body sparked clashes on Wednesday between rock-throwing Palestinian
Conflict & Justice
Is it time to worry about Israeli-Palestinian violence spinning out of control?
Conflict & Justice
In the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian kids who throw stones face unequal justice
Conflict & Justice
In the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian kids who throw stones face unequal justice
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (center) addresses the crowd of Israelis.
Global Politics
Here’s what happened when Israeli students had a rare chance to visit, and question, the Palestinian president
Camels still work as beasts of burden in many parts of the world.
Environment
Camel bones challenge the timing of some Bible stories
Global Politics
Why Gaza Strip Struggles with Energy Shortage
Arts, Culture & Media
A Conversation with Israeli Author Amos Oz
Arts, Culture & Media
UNESCO Admits ‘Palestine’ As Full Member
Global Politics
Hamas Celebrates Prisoner Exchange
Global Politics
Negotiating the Shalit — Hamas Prisoner Exchange