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Israel prepares for Rafah offensive as U.S. plans to build new Gaza port
Friday, April 26, 2024
Aid groups draw up contingency plans as Israel plans assault on Rafah, where most people in Gaza are displaced. Meanwhile, the U.S. is building a pier to deliver aid.
Israel's war and security cabinets continue planning for military operation in Rafah
Thursday, April 25, 2024
In response to Israel's vow to expand its ground offensive to the southern Gaza city of Rafah, residents and refugees consider whether they will attempt to flee.
Even before a planned Israeli ground offensive, airstrikes have made Rafah unsafe
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Israel has intensified its airstrikes on Gaza's southern city of Rafah. Palestinians say most of those killed are women and children.
There are canceled flights and fish on sidewalks after Dubai's record rainfall
Friday, April 19, 2024
Dubai is still recovering from unprecedented floods days after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the United Arab Emirates.
One man's search for his father in mass graves at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Recovery teams are exhuming bodies from mass graves at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital more than two weeks after an Israeli raid there.
Here's what we found after Israel's raid on Al-Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital
Saturday, April 06, 2024
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.
Israel's raid on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital foreshadows risks of Rafah assault
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
The aftermath of Israel's raid on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital and airstrike on foreign workers shows the risks of an even wider assault on Rafah, where most Palestinians are now sheltering.
Survivors recount horrors of Israeli siege on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Isreali forces concluded a two-week siege of Gaza's largest hospital. Survivors say forces destroyed the complex beyond repair, killed medics, detained hundreds of innocent people and burnt homes.
Blinken is in Israel aiming to negotiate a temporary cease-fire
Friday, March 22, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel after stops in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The war in Gaza is in its sixth month, and this is his sixth stop in the region since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, experts examining food insecurity say
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says everyone in Gaza faces high levels of acute food insecurity, and more than a million struggle with catastrophic levels of hunger.
A very different Ramadan in Gaza
Friday, March 15, 2024
The religious traditions and cultural hallmarks of Ramadan are impossible to observe in Gaza this year, where people are starving, displaced from their homes, mourning their dead and under threat of continued airstrikes.
The war in Gaza alters they way many Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan
Monday, March 11, 2024
The world has been pushing for a pause in the fighting in the Israel-Hamas war by the start of Ramadan. The Muslim holy month has begun and still no cease-fire agreement is in place.
The death toll in Gaza hits a grim new milestone
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The health ministry says soon the death toll will reach 30,000 people — many of them women and children. But officials say the actual number is much higher.
Without enough aid reaching Gaza, a young Palestinian baby dies of hunger
Monday, February 26, 2024
A baby in Gaza City died after going days without milk, a civil defense team says, as aid agencies warn of the risk of famine unless Israel permits much more aid to enter the besieged territory.
The war in Gaza may be approaching a new phase
Friday, February 23, 2024
Negotiations toward a ceasefire in Gaza are progressing as Israel's prime minister sets a post-war vision. Negotiators from the U.S., Israel, Egypt and Qatar are to meet in Paris to discuss a deal.
A crisis is underway as the Egyptian border is flooded with fleeing Palestinian refugees
Thursday, February 22, 2024
The Gaza war has created a crisis for Egypt, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees huddled against its border, facing a looming assault from Israeli forces.
Egypt builds a buffer zone in anticipation of a Palestinian refugee spillover
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
More than half of Gaza's population has sought shelter in the southern region of Rafah across from Egypt's border. Israel warns of an impending ground invasion there if hostages aren't freed by Hamas.
6-year-old Gaza girl was found dead days after pleading for rescue from Israeli fire
Monday, February 12, 2024
A girl in Gaza's pleas for help were heard around the world, but over the weekend the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed the child was killed along with an ambulance crew that tried to rescue her.
Egypt and Israel's ties are being tested by the war in Gaza and border security
Friday, February 02, 2024
The ties between Israel and Egypt have long been underpinned by security coordination, but tensions are mounting over concerns Israel may try to take control of Gaza's border with Egypt.
From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip.