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Israeli Military Releases Videos It Says Shows Bibas Family Members in Captivity on Oct. 7
Relatives of an Israeli mother and child who appeared to be shown in captivity in Gaza in newly released videos from the day of the Hamas-led attack said Tuesday they hoped the footage would call attention to the urgency of freeing the hostages. The ...
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Brazil’s President Angers Israel After Comparing War in Gaza to the Holocaust
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, drew the ire of Israeli authorities on Sunday after he compared Israel’s actions in the war against Hamas to the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed six million Jews in a systematic roundup in Europe during ...
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Israelis, Newly Vulnerable, Remain Traumatized and Mistrustful
After the Hamas invasion on Oct. 7, Doron Shabty and his wife and their two small children hid in Sderot, near the border with Gaza, and survived. A reservist in the infantry, he went into the army the next day. He just returned after more than 100 ...
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Hochul Apologizes After Implying Israel Has a Right to Destroy Gaza
In remarks made at a Jewish philanthropy event, Gov. Kathy Hochul said that if Canada attacked the United States as Hamas did Israel, “there would be no Canada the next day.”
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Hundreds Flee Southern Gaza Hospital After Israel Orders Evacuation
Hundreds of displaced Palestinians were fleeing a major hospital in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to doctors and videos from the scene, after Israeli forces ordered them to leave and threatened military action to stop what it said was Hamas ...
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An Urgent Search for Palestinian Leadership
A senior Hamas leader this month declared that any deal to end the fighting in Gaza must include the release of Marwan Barghouti. Three weeks before, a former Israeli security chief had identified Marwan Barghouti as “the only leader who can lead ...
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South Africa Asks Top U.N. Court to Act Against Israel’s Plans for Rafah
With Israel continuing to warn that it plans a ground invasion of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to issue new constraints on Israel’s military offensive to prevent genocide ...
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Tuesday Briefing: Israel Strikes Gaza to Rescue Hostages
Also, Donald Trump’s high-stakes week and China’s stadium diplomacy.
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Biden Cautions Netanyahu on Ground Offensive in Southern Gaza
President Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday that a ground offensive in southern Gaza should not proceed without a plan to protect the more than 1.4 million Palestinians clustered there, the latest sign of frustration ...
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Israel Says It Will Protect Civilians in a Gazan City It Is Determined to Invade
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would invade refugee-packed Rafah, but was drafting a plan to help people get out of harm’s way.