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News Articles: Israel-Hamas war

Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage in Gaza for 51 days, and whose husband Keith remains in Hamas captivity, spends time with her eight-year-old granddaughter Yali Tiv at her daughter's home on Kibbutz Gazit on March 26. Aviva has been staying with her daughter in northern Israel since being released in November.

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  • World

A freed Israeli hostage waits with hope for her husband, still held by Hamas in Gaza

Aviva Siegel, 63, was taken hostage by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, along with her husband Keith. She was released after 51 days, but he was not. On Saturday, Hamas released a video showing Keith alive.

April 30, 2024
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By:
  • Tamir Kalifa
Presiding judge Nawaf Salam (fourth from left) arrives to read a decision at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday.

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  • World

A top U.N. court won't order Germany to halt weapons exports to Israel

Nicaragua brought the case arguing that by providing arms to Israel, Germany is failing to prevent possible genocide against Palestinians in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

April 30, 2024
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By:
  • Nick Spicer
Dozens of tents are seen on a lawn inside the Columbia University Campus after students refused to take down the encampment by the 2 p.m. EDT deadline given to students protesting by Columbia President Minouche Shafik.

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  • National

As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too

Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • Brian Mann,
  • and 1 more
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah sit in the shade of their tent on a 100-degree day in the Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

A 100-degree heat wave in Gaza offers a sweltering glimpse of a tough summer to come

The heat bore down on Palestinians living in tents and aid groups working in the sun. UNRWA reported several heat injuries among its staff, and at least one 18-year-old Palestinian died from the heat.

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Anas Baba
A Palestinian baby girl, saved from the womb of her mother Sabreen Al-Sakani, who was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shukri Jouda and her daughter Malak, lies in an incubator at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21.

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  • Middle East

A baby girl born orphaned and premature after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died

The newborn died after five days in an incubator. Her family was killed in an air strike. UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Anas Baba
Amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Rafah, in southern Gaza, a woman and a girl search for items on April 24, following reported Israeli airstrikes overnight.

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  • Middle East

What to know about a possible Israeli military offensive in Rafah

In Gaza's southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought shelter and where aid groups have centralized operations, worries have grown over a possible Israeli military operation.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan,
  • Aya Batrawy,
  • and 2 more
About 50 Jewish and Israeli community members gathered in front of Ali’s Cookies in Emory Village on April 25.

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  • News

Emory campus protest flares as off-campus Jewish gathering remains small

As Pro-Palestinian protesters reignited the flames of anti-Israel chants on the Emory University quad Thursday evening, whispers of a Jewish rally were growing.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Logan Ritchie
Georgia State Patrol officers detain a demonstrator on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Thursday. / AP

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  • News

Protests erupt at Atlanta universities amid nationwide campus demonstrations against war in Gaza

Students at Emory University and Kennesaw State University protested the war in Gaza and the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Thursday, resulting in arrests and disruptions.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis ,
  • Orlando Montoya ,
  • and 1 more
Nimer Saddy al-Nimer, 12, was shot five times by Israel's military on April 1 while gathering food from aid dropped by parachute that landed in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza. Israeli soldiers took the boy into Israel for surgery, and, according to Nimer, placed him in a prison for four days while he recovered. He is now in a refugee camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

Shot by Israeli troops while getting aid, a boy in Gaza fights for his life

UNICEF says one child is injured or killed in Gaza every 10 minutes. This is the story of a 12-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces while he was trying to get food aid.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz and
  • Anas Baba
Students from MIT, Harvard University and others rally at a protest encampment at MIT's Kresge Lawn in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday.

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  • National

Columbia to continue talks with student protesters after deadline to clear out passes

After the arrests of dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, students across the country have erected encampments on campuses in solidarity.

April 24, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Ayana Archie
The U.S.-operated GPS has falsely located planes, people and ships, sometimes placing them at the <strong> </strong>Beirut's international airport.

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  • World

Israel fakes GPS locations to deter attacks, but it also throws off planes and ships

GPS "spoofing" sends false location signals to satellites to deter rockets and missiles. It also increases risks for planes, ships and technology that rely on the system.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive UNRWA aid in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7.

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  • World

Report on UNRWA concludes Israel has not provided evidence of employees' militancy

An independent review commissioned by the United Nations did not have a mandate to investigate Israel's other claim that a dozen UNRWA employees took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
Israeli soldier walks by a pickup truck used by Palestinian militants in Sderot, Israel, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Israeli military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Oct. 7 attack

The head of Israel's military intelligence directorate resigned on Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas' unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the deadliest assault in Israel's history.

April 22, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Protesters calling for a cease fire in Gaza shut down southbound traffic on Highway 880 in Oakland, Calif. on Monday, April 15, 2024.

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  • National

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators shut down airport highways and bridges in major cities

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked roadways in Illinois, California, New York and the Pacific Northwest on Monday, temporarily shutting down travel into some of the nation's airports.

April 16, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles toward Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, April 14.

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  • World

Iran's leaders insist the attack against Israel was a 'victory'

Iranian officials have heaped praise on the attack, with a top lawmaker saying that "it humiliated the Israeli regime." But Israel says 99% of Iran's missiles and drones were intercepted.

April 15, 2024
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  • Peter Kenyon
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