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Gaza Strip as seen from the window of the Jordanian cargo plane carrying aid.
Israel-Hamas war
The view over Gaza onboard a Jordanian aid plane
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are seen in tents in town of Khan Younis, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
LISTEN: Voices from across the globe as the Israel-Hamas war continues to unfold
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Gaza Strip from Egypt in Rafah as a temporary ceasefire went into effect, Nov. 24, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
‘We’re bracing for what comes after’ the truce, MSF Gaza director says
Israeli soldiers carry a stretcher toward a helicopter near the border with Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
Israel and Hamas reach temporary ceasefire agreement
Illustration of a woman holding a baby and being led by a dark authority figure
Israel-Hamas war
When the phones go dead in Gaza
A video still from an athletic center in Ramallah, in the West Bank, where hundreds of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip are stranded.
Israel-Hamas war
For Palestinians, the fear of displacement cuts deep
The streets of Ashkelon in southern Israel are quiet, but not totally empty after Hamas militants attacked the area over a month ago.
Israel-Hamas war
As thousands flee violence in southern Israel, some decide to stay put
Rubble from destroyed building and homes in Gaza
Israel-Hamas war
Gaza resident: ‘We all have the feeling we won’t make it until tomorrow’
Photo showing tanks and jeeps rolling through a desert
Israel-Hamas war
How the Hamas assault echoes the 1973 Arab-Israeli war
Three young children are shown looking off to a room damaged by rocket attack.
PHOTOS: Shattered rooms show Gaza war’s toll on children
People walk by the rubble of the al-Jalaa building following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, May 21, 2021. The building housed The Associated Press bureau in Gaza City for 15 years.
The blockade on Gaza hampers life and reconstruction
Top of The World
Israel-Hamas hostilities continue into 10th day
A person is shown in shadow in a blown out window in the collapsed section of a building.
Top of The World
Israel launches deadly airstrikes on Gaza following rocket attacks by Hamas
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, in this this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo.
Justice
Israel has a stake in Biden administration’s decision to lift ICC sanctions
A view of Shuafat refugee camp is seen behind section of Israel's separation barrier in Jerusalem, June 19, 2020.
Why a leading Israeli rights group is calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state
A Palestinian artist paints protective face masks to encourage people to wear them as a precaution against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Gaza City, on March 30, 2020.
COVID-19
Gaza Strip fears spread of the coronavirus, Palestinian epidemiologist says
A man sits looking at a building in ruins.
Conflict & Justice
Israel-Palestinian truce takes hold as Gazans prepare for holy month
A Palestinian man wears a scarf and looks on as he stands in front of a building that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike.
Conflict
A botched Israeli raid on Gaza prompts dozens of retaliatory rockets fired into Israel
A Palestinian woman sits next to bags of flour
UN agency chief says Palestinian refugees can’t ‘simply be wished away’
A Palestinian worker carries a bag containing items sent by mail
Eight years late, 10 tons of mail finally makes it to the West Bank
a policeman on the israel-gaza border
Israeli minister sees Gaza-style measures for US-Mexico border
People are silhouetted against the sun as some smoke surrounds them. One man on the left rolls a tire.
Conflict
After bloodshed and US embassy protests, Israelis and Palestinians alike wonder what’s next
Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from Israeli fire and tear gas during a protest against US embassy move to Jerusalem, May 14, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
Gazans bury dead after bloody day of Israel border protests
A stone building is crumbling and surrounded by tree branches
Conflict & Justice
Palestinians mourn the home they left decades ago
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Conflict
Among young Palestinians, growing alienation from political leaders
Palestinian Americans wary of statehood bid
Shukri Alassouli's wife and two children were among some 450 people who drowned in a fishing boat rammed by people smugglers last month in the Mediterranean Ocean.
Conflict
A ‘mass murder in the Mediterranean’ leaves nearly 450 lost at sea, including this man’s family
An Israeli flag is painted on one of the walls on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.
Conflict
At the only place where Israel will export things to Gaza, both sides remain at arm’s length
A sign at the entrance to Giv’at Oz veGa’on, a new outpost established by Israeli settlers in the West Bank in the name of three teenagers killed in June.
Conflict
Jewish settlers establish a new West Bank outpost in the name of the murdered Israeli teens
A man sits amid the ruins of destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip. Reconstruction cannot really start till Israel opens the frontier for cement and other building materials.
Conflict
How cement could de-rail the Gaza peace talks
A man sits amid the ruins of destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip. Reconstruction cannot really start till Israel opens the frontier for cement and other building materials.
Conflict
How cement could de-rail the Gaza peace talks
A Palestinian man, pictured through a damaged classroom, carries a boy as he walks at a United Nations-run school in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Witnesses say the school, which is sheltering Palestinians displace
Conflict
Gazans find no refuge in UN schools, but they’re staying because it’s the best they have
A Palestinian man, pictured through a damaged classroom, carries a boy as he walks at a United Nations-run school in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Witnesses say the school, which is sheltering Palestinians displace
Conflict
Gazans find no refuge in UN schools, but they’re staying because it’s the best they have
A Palestinian carries his son in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during an Israeli offensive. (August 1, 2014)
Conflict
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are looking forward with a sense of dread
Conflict
As Gaza burns, some West Bankers are calling for a third intifada
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
Israeli soldiers evacuate a comrade after he was wounded in a Palestinian mortar strike inside Israel on Monday.
Conflict & Justice
Israel’s campaign in Gaza is widening, but the army is unlikely to stay
GazaA Palestinian man salvages belongings from damaged buildings in Gaza City's Shejaia neighborhood, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during an Israeli offensive.
Conflict & Justice
A reporter on the ground in Gaza says ‘surgical strikes’ have brought much wider damage
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
Israeli Yasha Marmer protests against his country’s operation in the Gaza Strip, holding a poster that says “stop the war” in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
Conflict & Justice
Anti-war voices in Israel face threats and violence
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
Conflict & Justice
Talk of a negotiated ceasefire in Gaza remains just that — talk
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
An Israeli tank performs a maneuver after the end of a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip. Israeli leaders ordered a ground operation in Gaza soon after the temporary ceasefire, which was not honored by Palestinian militant
Conflict & Justice
As Israel starts a ground offensive, an Israeli journalist says it is obvious his country doesn’t want war
On Ramadan, the main roads of Jisr az-Zarqa are speckled with stands selling freshly fried felafel, bright pickles and fluffy pitas. Jewish Israelis who visited on a recent tour came to taste the flavors of the Ramadan month.
Lifestyle & Belief
One casualty of the Israeli-Hamas conflict are Ramadan tours that bring Jews and Muslims together
Palestinians sit outside their house that is located opposite to the house of top Hamas political leader Mahmoud Zahar which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
Conflict & Justice
How did the Gaza Strip become one of the most hopeless places on Earth?
Palestinians sit outside their house that is located opposite to the house of top Hamas political leader Mahmoud Zahar which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
Conflict & Justice
How did the Gaza Strip become one of the most hopeless places on Earth?
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
People pray next to the bodies of eight Palestinian members from the al-Haj family from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medics said the relatives were killed in an early morning air strike carried out by Israel that destroyed at least
Conflict & Justice
In attacking Israel, Hamas might be trying out a back-to-basics strategy
Conflict & Justice
‘We rebuild and then it gets destroyed again,’ says a Gaza resident as airstrikes pound his city
Adele Raemer's safe room in her home on a kibbutz in Nirim on Israel's border with Gaza.
Conflict & Justice
Israelis on the border with Gaza race to ‘safe rooms’ when sirens wail
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
Relatives of a Palestinian Hamas militant mourn during his funeral in the southern Gaza Strip on July 7, 2014. The Israeli military killed at least five Hamas militants in air strikes carried out in the Palestinians enclave.
Conflict & Justice
Israel arrests right-wing soccer fans for the revenge murder of a Palestinian boy
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?