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News Articles: Middle East

TOPSHOT - Shadows form on the ground as the moon moves in front of the sun in a rare "ring of fire" solar eclipse in Singapore on December 26, 2019.

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Student loan proposal targets accrued interest; Israel and Hamas war hits six months

Biden administration targets accrued interest in latest student loan relief proposal. Israel withdraws troops as the Israel-Hamas war reaches the six month mark.

April 08, 2024
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By:
  • Mansee Khurana
People walk past destroyed buildings along a road in Khan Younis on April 7, 2024 after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip, six months into the war sparked by the Oct. 7 attacks.

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  • Middle East

Israel pulls some troops from southern Gaza, 6 months after Oct. 7 attacks

Israel withdraws troops from Khan Younis six months after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, as tens of thousands of Israelis hold anti-government protests.

April 07, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
A man sits in a cage with portraits of 47-year-old Israeli hostage Elad Katzir as relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages stage a demonstration in Tel Aviv on March 26.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it has recovered the body of Israeli hostage Elad Katzir in Gaza

Elad Katzir, 47, was from Nir Oz, a kibbutz near the Gaza border. The small community of 400 residents was among the hardest hit in Israel by Hamas-led attackers on Oct. 7.

April 06, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
A young Palestinian sits on the rubble of a destroyed home following an Israeli military strike on the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern of Gaza Strip, on Oct. 15. Sunday marks six months since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.

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  • Middle East

How 6 months of Israel's war in Gaza have upended the Middle East

Three NPR correspondents look at how the Israel-Hamas war is reshaping the region, and what might come next.

April 06, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Jane Arraf,
  • and 1 more
What is left of Pasha's Palace amid Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Historians of Gaza say Napoleon slept there for three nights in 1799.

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  • World

Photos: Israel and Gaza, 6 months into the war

It's been six months since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, prompting Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. NPR photographers have covered the war's effects on Israelis, Palestinians and the region.

April 06, 2024
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By:
  • Mhari Shaw and
  • JuliAnna Patino
The damaged area around the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on April 1, 2024.

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  • World

Here's what we found after Israel's raid on Al-Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital

NPR photos show the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital in ruins after an Israeli raid. Israel says the siege only targeted militants. Palestinians recount a different story.

April 06, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Omar El Qattaa
A McDonald's restaurant's iconic "golden arches" logo next to a giant coffee cup of its "Aroma" trademark in the Israeli Dead Sea resort town of Ein Bokek.

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  • Business

McDonald's says it is buying back all of its franchises in Israel

Alonyal Limited owns 225 McDonald's locations. McDonald's has recently faced boycotts after its Israel branch donated meals to the Israeli military.

April 05, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Luis Har, shown here in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 27, was taken hostage during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and freed by an Israeli special forces operation in February. In captivity, he says, "Every time we fell into depression, we overcame it with stories. We started to say, where are we going to travel to today in our minds?"

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  • World

129 days: How one Israeli hostage in Gaza told stories to endure captivity

Luis Har, 71, was taken hostage on Oct. 7 with his family. The accountant, actor and dancer drew on a lifetime of memories to help comfort them in captivity in Gaza. He was freed in an Israeli raid.

April 05, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip.

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  • World

Israel's military dismisses officers over World Central Kitchen airstrike

An investigation by the Israeli military's general staff concluded the airstrike, which killed seven aid workers, violated its standards and "should not have occurred."

April 05, 2024
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  • Daniel Estrin
Meirav Eilon Shahr, ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of the Israel to the UN, observes the vote on a resolution regarding the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, during the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday.

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  • Middle East

UN human rights body calls for halt to weapons shipments to Israel

While non-binding, the resolution passed Friday is bound to raise international pressure on Israel as a sign of widespread concern about its military campaign in Gaza.

April 05, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
President Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to express concerns about Israeli strikes that killed aid workers and humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

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  • Politics

Biden warns Netanyahu that U.S. policy on Gaza hinges on improved conditions there

President Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed in Israeli strikes. He said a cease-fire is needed so aid can get in.

April 04, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith and
  • Daniel Estrin
Members of the public join a walking vigil through the streets of Falmouth, England, for British aid worker James Henderson, organized by Palestine Solidarity Cornwall, April 3. Three British men working for World Central Kitchen were killed along with four colleagues when their clearly marked vehicles were targeted by Israeli military strikes.

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  • World

Why a majority of Britons want the U.K. to halt arms exports to Israel

Countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain say they're suspending arms sales to Israel. After an Israeli strike killed British World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, will the U.K. too?

April 04, 2024
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab and
  • Lauren Frayer
Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a member of the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit its convoy delivering food in Gaza, during his funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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  • News

These are the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Three of those killed by an Israeli airstrike were British and the others were Australian, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

April 04, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx and
  • Rachel Treisman
Reading glasses are easy to come by in Western countries. But getting a pair in the Global South can be a challenge. A new study shows the surprising benefits that a pair of specs can bring.

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  • Global Health

Glasses aren't just good for your eyes. They can be a boon to income, too

That's the finding of a new study in Bangladesh, which gave reading glasses to hundreds of people and then measured their earnings.

April 04, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A young boy looks out from a car as members of a Palestinian family leave Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with personal belongings on March 31.

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  • Middle East

Biden met with a small group of Muslims yesterday. This doctor walked out

The relationship between the White House and Arab Americans and Muslims is fraught because of President Biden's support for Israel's war in Gaza,

April 03, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
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