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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Israel-Hamas war
Amid war and large-scale displacement in Gaza, Israeli settlers plan their return
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
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’
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
Biden in a crowd
Conflict & Justice
President Biden’s visit to Israel focuses on regional security 
Human rights
A Gaza mother struggles to protect her kids
The separation wall, Baka al-Gharbiyeh
Borders
Israel’s Arab citizens contemplate their future under the Trump peace plan
Children play with a wheelbarrow.
Politics
Legal recognition of West Bank settlements could ‘kill off’ hope of two-state solution, says former US ambassador
Noam
How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS
a view of the Museum of the Palestinian People
Arts, Culture & Media
New Palestinian museum in DC favors the personal over the political
Two men shake hands and a woman smiles while holding their arms.
Global Politics
Veteran Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi is denied a visa to the US
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner smiles while listening to US President Donald Trump talk as the president meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2019.
Foreign policy
Jared Kushner’s peace plan that nobody loves
A man sits looking at a building in ruins.
Conflict & Justice
Israel-Palestinian truce takes hold as Gazans prepare for holy month
A woman stands on the porch of a house
Conflict & Justice
Is Airbnb’s no-profit return to the West Bank ‘whitewashing’ human rights violations?
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
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
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein of Jordan speaks during a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva.
Conflict & Justice
UN sets up human rights probe into Gaza killings, to Israel’s fury
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
A stone building is crumbling and surrounded by tree branches
Conflict & Justice
Palestinians mourn the home they left decades ago
A wounded demonstrator is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest where Palestinians demand the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, April 27, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
Israeli troops kill 3, wound hundreds in Gaza
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Global Politics
Protest leads to bloody clashes on Israel-Gaza border, killing at least nine
palestinian
Conflict
Among young Palestinians, growing alienation from political leaders
Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli security personnel at Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 15, 2018.
Conflict
Israeli court detains Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi
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
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
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Global Politics
Official: Trump likely to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel
Israeli soldiers stand guard during the demolition of the family house of Palestinian assailant Omar Alabed
Conflict
Israel wants to increase its practice of demolishing the homes of Palestinian involved in fatal attacks
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
America’s bond with Israel — its history and its current challenges
Full Episode
After five years, Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas (with video)
Palestinian Americans wary of statehood bid
Israel to Palestinians: Only way to statehood is negotiation
Tensions escalate in Israel and Gaza
Baha Nababta in the Shuafat refugee camp in November 2014. He devoted his life to improving the camp before he was shot to death this year.
Conflict
Baha Nababta wanted to live in a place where the roads were paved and the trash picked up. Then he was murdered.
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.
Books
Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation
Emad Abu Shamsiyeh who filmed the shooting, standing with his camera at the site in Hebron where it happened. Since his video was posted online, he's been threatened and attacked.
Conflict
In the West Bank, a killing and a handshake are caught on tape
A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.
Belief
In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly
Ziyad Abul Hawa came home one day to find this note about "an Arab" — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie next to it.
Conflict
He came home to find a note about ‘an Arab’ — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie.
A Palestinian worker at Azura in Jerusalem.
Conflict
Amidst rising violence, Israelis and Palestinians have no choice but to depend on each other
Author and musician Yuval Ben-Ami, 39.
Music
In Holy Land, a tribute to Lorde gets complicated
Lucy Aharish
Media
An Arab newscaster in Israel has a message: ‘This is not your country. This is our country.’
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.
Justice
Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Demonstrators gather at Monument Circle to protest a controversial religious freedom bill recently signed by Governor Mike Pence, during a rally in Indianapolis on March 28, 2015.
Music
Does it make a difference when musicians boycott?
Wounded Palestinian Rawya abu Jom’a.
Media
Heidi Levine’s war photos from Gaza keep a colleague’s memory alive
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Global Politics
Uninvited by Obama, will Netanyahu speak to Congress?
Enas Shalodi's home in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood was demolished last month by Israeli authorities. Her son rammed the family car into a light rail stop in Jerusalem in October, killing two people.
Global Politics
Palestinians feel helpless as their homes are destroyed — at Israeli government orders
A man walks past a burning building during rioting after a grand jury returned no indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Conflict
A Middle East correspondent sees familiar clashes unfold in Ferguson
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
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Jerusalem following a terrorist attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.
Conflict
Palestinians are anxious as Israel vows a ‘strong response’ to the Jerusalem attack
Israeli right-wing activists rallied on Thursday for Jewish prayer rights at the holiest site in Jerusalem, the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount.
Conflict
Jerusalem is a city on the brink as four months of tensions between Jews and Palestinians continue
A Palestinian man prays near Israeli police during Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz on October 31, 2014. Israeli police declared an age limit on Friday for Palestinians wanting to enter the Old City, only allowing males ab
Conflict
Reopening holy sites for Muslims fails to ease tensions in Jerusalem
Reconstruction in Gaza is only just beginning
Conflict
How radio became a ‘lifeline’ in Gaza
Palestinian residents in front of the Baydoun home recently occupied by Israelis.
Conflict
Who really owns the Israeli-occupied homes in East Jerusalem?
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 Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh
Conflict
It was exhaustion, more than a real desire for peace, that fueled the latest cease-fire in Gaza
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
A woman holds up a placard during a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square.
Conflict
After he criticized the Gaza-Israel war, a young Israeli and his girlfriend face isolation
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
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