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News Articles: Middle East

Palestinians gather to collect aid food in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on February 26, 2024.

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  • Middle East

A Window Into Life in Northern Gaza

We hear what life is like for three families in northern Gaza where finding food and water is a struggle and hundreds of thousands of people are facing starvation.

For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to npr.org/mideastupdates

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis,
  • Omar El Qattaa,
  • and 1 more
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

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  • Politics

Speaker Johnson to invite Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress

Johnson's invitation comes as the debate about U.S. policy toward Israel has shifted since the war. GOP leaders are emphasizing their support for Netanyahu, and highlighting a divide among Democrats.

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, talks to Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, during their meeting at Tahrir palace in Cairo, on Thursday.

Tagged as: 

  • Middle East

Blinken will visit Israel at a moment of mounting tension over the war in Gaza

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in Israel on Friday. The White House wants Israel to pause plans for an attack on Rafah.

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A man carries a cardboard box of food aid provided by nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on March 17, amid the conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas.

Tagged as: 

  • World

People in Gaza are starving to death. 5 things to know about efforts to feed them

Family clans in Gaza are being called on to help distribute aid to a starving population. Here's why it matters and how it could shape postwar security.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Daniel Estrin
Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.

Tagged as: 

  • Middle East

Famine in northern Gaza is 'imminent,' warns the world's leading authority on hunger

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification issued a new report that concluded that the entire population in the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million, face serious food insecurity as war continues.

March 19, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Palestinian children receive free food in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Feb. 23. More than a million Palestinians displaced by the war have taken refuge in Rafah governorate, including an estimated 600,000 children.

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  • Middle East

For the 68 orphans saved from Rafah, the road to recovery is likely to be a long one

The 68 children without parental care are getting a reprieve from war, but children who experience armed conflict often face long-lasting impacts when it comes to their mental health and development.

March 19, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
President Biden sits with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Biden speaks with Netanyahu as tensions rise over the war in Gaza

National security adviser Jake Sullivan described a "business-like" meeting between two leaders with different perspectives about the proposed military operation for the city of Rafah in Gaza.

March 18, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Rahima Banu had the last recorded case of naturally occurring variola major smallpox, a deadly strain of the virus, in 1975. At left: Banu in her mother's arms as a small child. At right: Banu today, close to 50 years old, lives in a small village in Bangladesh with her husband, Rafiqul Islam, and their children.

Tagged as: 

  • Perspective

The improbable victory over smallpox holds lessons for health threats in 2024

Physician Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record.

March 18, 2024
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By:
  • Dr. Céline Gounder
Displaced Palestinians gather in the yard of Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on Dec. 10, 2023. The hospital, Gaza's largest, war raided by the Israeli military early on Monday.

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  • Middle East

Israel's military launched an overnight raid on Gaza's largest hospital

The Israeli military said it was "operating to thwart terrorist activity" at Al-Shifa Hospital. The Gaza Ministry of Health says the raid violates humanitarian law.

March 18, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
This close-up of the Verona astrolabe shows Arabic and Hebrew markings.

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  • Research News

This medieval astrolabe has both Arabic and Hebrew markings. Here's what it means

This discovery sheds new light on the rich history of scholarship and intellectual exchange between Muslims, Jews and Christians during a time of Muslim rule in medieval Spain.

March 16, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Palestinian journalists stage a protest to draw attention to Palestinian members of the media killed while covering the war in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 15, in Rafah, Gaza.

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  • Middle East

In Gaza, Palestinian journalists are documenting a war they're also trying to survive

Israel — with rare exceptions — has prevented foreign journalists from entering Gaza. As such, Palestinian reporters remain the world's eyes and ears on the ground, and they do so at great peril.

March 15, 2024
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By:
  • D. Parvaz

Tagged as: 

  • Middle East

War has forced half of Gaza into Rafah. Palestinians there are at a breaking point

Five months into the war, about half of Gaza's population has been squeezed into Rafah. The governorate was crowded before the war, but mass displacement has made it the site of a spiraling crisis.

March 15, 2024
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By:
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin,
  • Alyson Hurt,
  • and 2 more
Open Arms members carry humanitarian aid for Gaza in a joint mission between NGOs Open Arms and World Central Kitchen at a port of Larnaca, Cyprus, March 9.

Tagged as: 

  • News

An aid ship is en route to Gaza, in a test of a sea corridor for the war-torn enclave

A humanitarian ship is piloting a new sea route to bring food to Gaza to help avert famine after five months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food donated by a charity before an iftar meal, the breaking of fast, on the second day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas.

Tagged as: 

  • Middle East

With aid headed to Gaza, risks remain to getting food to its starving population

An Israeli strike hit a food distribution center, killing a U.N. relief worker — a sign of the heightened dangers and challenges of bringing much-needed aid into Gaza during the war.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A large sign calling for a cease-fire in Gaza hangs from a building in Dublin on Feb. 12.

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  • News

Why Ireland is one of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world

One of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world is not an Arab or Muslim country. It's not even in the Middle East. Polls show Ireland has some of the highest support for the Palestinians.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
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