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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
Ein 'Arik is a small village just west of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Israel-Hamas war
‘No one is helping us’: Palestinians in West Bank barred from Israel face unemployment, financial insecurity
Gaza Sunbird team members distribute much-needed food aid and other supplies in Rafah, Gaza in February 2024.
Israel-Hamas war
Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team pivots to aid distribution amid war
A crowd gathers in what's become known as Hostages Square in central Tel Aviv, Feb. 11, 2024.
Israel-Hamas war
Most families of Israeli hostages want their loved ones returned home but some say it’s more important to defeat Hamas first
Relatives of US citizens that are missing since Saturday's surprise attack by Hamas militants near the Gaza border, in Tel Aviv, Israel attend a news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Israel-Hamas war
‘We need to tell the story’: Parents of an Israeli hostage in Gaza grapple with uncertainty
The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
Rape is ‘the most neglected war crime,’ sexual violence expert says
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
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
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
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shake hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Amman, Jordan, Oct. 13, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
The Palestinian political system needs to be rebuilt on ‘national consensus,’ says political activist
people amid explosion
Israel-Hamas war
A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass.
The World's Global Classroom
Colleges struggle to balance free speech, international politics and public safety amid Israel-Hamas conflict
Three young children are shown looking off to a room damaged by rocket attack.
PHOTOS: Shattered rooms show Gaza war’s toll on children
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shown wearing a blue suit and tie with a US flag pin while looking down.
Conflict & Justice
Blinken off to Mideast to push peace talks after Gaza truce
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
Girl stands in front of destroyed buildings
Top of The World
Israel and Hamas begin ceasefire
Smoke plumes from airstrikes in Gaza.
Conflict & Justice
Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire
A man is shown wearing an orange safety vest and silver helmet and spraying a fire working to extinguish it.
Top of The World
Israel conducts heavy airstrike bombardment on Gaza
Human rights
A Gaza mother struggles to protect her kids
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
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Conflict
Among young Palestinians, growing alienation from political leaders
Palestinians react during a protest against Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 7, 2017.
Conflict
Hamas calls for Palestinian uprising in response to Trump’s Jerusalem plan
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
After five years, Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas (with video)
Munir Al-Maqdah adjusts the uniform of a new recruit to the Palestinian joint security force in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp.
Conflict
Palestinian factions in Lebanon join forces to keep ISIS out
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.
Justice
Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during his trial at a Cairo court on May 8, 2014. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Justice
Egypt’s first democratically elected president becomes a convict
Wounded Palestinian Rawya abu Jom’a.
Media
Heidi Levine’s war photos from Gaza keep a colleague’s memory alive
Israeli emergency personnel carry the body of a victim from the scene of an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.
Conflict
Palestinians kill Israeli worshippers during prayers at a Jerusalem synagogue
Justice
He was the son of a top Hamas leader — then he became an Israeli informant
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
Hamas militants grab a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel before being executed in Gaza City on August 22, 2014. Hamas militants killed seven Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel in a public execution in a central Gaza squar
Conflict
Hamas tries to send a message to Israel — with an unprecedented mass execution
Palestinian negotiators
Conflict
In Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, no one wants to be seen taking the first step
One of the main targets of the Israeli ground offensive into Gaza is the extensive tunnel network which has enabled Hamas militants easy access into Israel. In this cartoon two Israeli soldiers talk to their commander about whether or not to blow up a tun
Conflict
Just a mile from Gaza, a Kibbutznik cartoonist holds steadfast to his left wing beliefs
One of the main targets of the Israeli ground offensive into Gaza is the extensive tunnel network which has enabled Hamas militants easy access into Israel. In this cartoon two Israeli soldiers talk to their commander about whether or not to blow up a tun
Conflict
Just a mile from Gaza, a Kibbutznik cartoonist holds steadfast to his left wing beliefs
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
Music
A Hamas terror anthem is Israel’s biggest summer hit
An armored vehicle at the entrance to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, established in 1951 along the Gaza border.
Conflict
Fighting has stopped again in Gaza, but nearby Israeli towns are still deserted
A man carries a Palestinian girl, whom medics said was wounded in an Israeli air strike, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday.
Conflict
The Gaza War resumes — and both sides are unhappy
Palestinians ride a donkey cart past destroyed and badly damaged residential buildings as they return to Beit Lahiya town, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during the Israeli offensive.
Conflict
Residents of Gaza are digging through the rubble, anxious to find scraps of their past
Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, on August 3, 2014. Goldin's death in Gaza is prompting some in Israel to question their military's controversial Hannibal Doctrine.
Conflict
Some in Israel are questioning the military’s Hannibal Doctrine
Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, on August 3, 2014. Goldin's death in Gaza is prompting some in Israel to question their military's controversial Hannibal Doctrine.
Conflict
Some in Israel are questioning the military’s Hannibal Doctrine
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
Gaza
Conflict
How do you even talk about peace in Gaza when both sides are digging in?
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
A man holds up an Israeli flag during a pro-Israel demonstration near the United Nations building in New York City, July 28, 2014.
Conflict
How American Jews feel about Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip
Conflict
As Gaza burns, some West Bankers are calling for a third intifada
An Israeli army officer during an army-organized tour in a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacks.
Conflict & Justice
Hamas’ tunnels are powerful weapons in the psychological war in Gaza
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
Flights from Israel had partially resumed Friday, but there were still plenty of cancellations. The FAA ban on flights to Tel Aviv left many Israelis feeling claustrophobic and isolated — even if only for two days.
Conflict & Justice
The US flight ban left Israelis feeling cut off from the world
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
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday. So far, his government has enjoyed the support of the Israeli people in the conflict with Hamas.
Conflict & Justice
Quiet dissent over Gaza stirs in Israel
Yehonatan Toker (left) and Hamze Awawde (right) in their kitchen in Washington, DC. Toker, an Israeli, and Awawde, a Palestinian, are in Washington for internships, and they're sharing a house.
Conflict & Justice
In a Washington home, an Israeli man and a Palestinian man are learning to live side-by-side
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
Israeli tanks maneuver outside the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and warned it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killi
Conflict & Justice
Why will Israel’s invasion of Gaza be different this time around?