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News Articles: Series: Middle East crisis — explained

People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Why Israel's having some of its biggest protests since the war in Gaza began

They're demanding a deal between Israel and Hamas to release all the remaining hostages, and also demonstrating against government attempts to weaken the judiciary.

March 25, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Daniel Estrin
Displaced Palestinians, who flee from Rafah amid ongoing Israeli military operations following Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, arrive in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Sunday.

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  • Middle East

Israel's latest war plans: To occupy Gaza and rule Palestinians

Occupying Gaza and establishing military rule there would go beyond Israel's stated war goals to end Hamas rule and free hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

March 24, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Itay Stern,
  • and 1 more

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  • Middle East

One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war with Hamas, Gaza health officials say. We reconstructed what happened in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the war.

March 24, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Daniel Wood,
  • and 5 more
Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, March 14.

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  • Middle East

Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign

The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.

March 23, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
  • Anas Baba,
  • and 1 more
Smoke billows from the site of Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the area of the southern Lebanese village of Yohmor on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes multiple sites in southern Lebanon in response to rocket attack

Lebanese health officials said two people were killed, including a child, and several more were injured.

March 22, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Palestinian children walk amid rubble of destroyed houses after Israeli attacks in Jenin camp, the occupied West Bank, on Feb. 26.

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  • World

West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Palestinians recite a prayer over the bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel expands its ground offensive in Gaza as Hamas fires rockets back

The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive in Gaza, and killed at least 80 Palestinians in a new wave of strikes Thursday. Hamas fired its first rockets since Israel broke a recent ceasefire.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Anas Baba,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
In this picture, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it's launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 people.

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  • Middle East

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israel's military launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, sending troops into areas they retreated from during a two-month ceasefire. This comes a day after airstrikes killed more than 400 people.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
Children look on as people walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza drew global condemnation, as it said it had "no alternative" other than to resume military operations in order to bring home hostages.

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  • Middle East

Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel on Tuesday unleashed its most intense strikes on the Gaza Strip since a January ceasefire.

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  • Middle East

Hundreds killed as Israel launches a series of air strikes on Gaza

Israel said the Tuesday attacks were launched after Hamas refused to release more hostages held in Gaza. The strikes raise the prospect of a full resumption of war after a nearly two-month ceasefire.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Anas Baba,
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • and 1 more
Young Palestinians fill cans with water in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. Arab negotiators are trying to broker a ceasefire deal that would avert a return to fighting in Gaza and begin serious negotiations toward a formal end of the war, since the breakdown of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal at the beginning of the month.

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  • Middle East

Why are the Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks stuck? An explainer on the latest

Arab mediators are working to reach a new Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that would secure the release of 12 living hostages out of the 24 still believed to be held alive by Hamas in Gaza.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Aya Batrawy
Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to no avail. After news emerged that security forces had hidden some children of detained women in Damascus orphanages, he began his search again.

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  • Global Health

The missing children of Syria: Hidden in orphanages under Assad, where are they now?

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during the war are now seeking information on their fate. NPR investigates.

March 16, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Mirna Alrached
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip on Saturday. The Israeli military says it was targeting "terrorists" operating a drone in the area. But the head of Gaza's civil defense, Mahmoud Basal, says they were aid workers from the London-based Al Khair Foundation, along with two journalists working with the group.

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  • Middle East

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 9, including aid workers and journalists, witnesses say

Two back-to-back Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza killed at least nine people on Saturday, according to Gaza civil defense. Witnesses say several of those killed were aid workers and journalists.

March 15, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Friends and relatives of Israeli hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023 attacks by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, stand behind a banner bearing their portraits during a demonstration calling for action to secure their release in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Hamas says it's willing to release the five American hostages in Gaza

Hamas, the militant group the U.S. has labeled as terrorists, says it's willing to release the one living American hostage and bodies of four others it's held in Gaza since the 2023 attacks in Israel.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis
Ghassan Mamouli, a representative from the Damascus government, inspects the damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.

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  • World

Israel targets what it says was an Islamic Jihad command center in Damascus

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been vacant for years.

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
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