
Aya Batrawy
Correspondent at NPR
@NPR correspondent leading new Gulf bureau. It's the moments you can't relay in a tweet that matter most.
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1 week ago |
kpbs.org | Daniel Estrin |Aya Batrawy
TEL AVIV, Israel and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, free more Israeli hostages and negotiate the disarmament of Palestinian militant groups in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. The Hamas official spoke on condition of anonymity because the group had not yet presented its formal response to ceasefire mediators.
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Aya Batrawy |Anas Baba
More than half of the Gaza Strip is no longer accessible to Palestinians as Israel's military takes over larger areas of the territory and absorbs them into what it calls security zones along all of the territory's borders. Nowhere is this more visible than in southern Gaza, where Israel's defense minister says the military is seizing an area once home to a quarter-million people and turning it into a buffer zone.
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1 week ago |
sdpb.org | Aya Batrawy |Anas Baba
More than half of Gaza's territory is no longer accessible to Palestinians as Israel's military seizes more land in buffer zones.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Aya Batrawy |Anas Baba
9 hours agoGaza - April 14, 2025 IDF forces continue to operate vigorously against organizations in the Gaza Strip: an underground tunnel in Rafah hundreds of meters long was destroyed, the Air Force attacked sites for launching rockets and producing weapons. IDF forces in the Southern Command continue their intensified activity in the Gaza Strip against organizations, under the direction of the Intelligence Division and the Shin Bet.
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2 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Hadeel Al-Shalchi |Aya Batrawy
Updated April 07, 2025 at 14:15 PM ETTEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington for a second meeting since President Trump took office and as Israel's war in Gaza marks a year and a half. Netanyahu says he expects to discuss efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza, as well as new U.S. tariffs. The Trump administration imposed 17% tariffs on Israel as part of new trade measures on goods from many countries.
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