Claire Parker

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Claire Parker

IDF systematically destroyed homes and fields on Gaza border, report finds (washingtonpost.com) IDF systematically destroyed homes and fields on Gaza border, report finds By Claire Parker 2025040706000000 TEL AVIV — Israeli soldiers who served in the Gaza Strip said they systematically razed buildings and agricultural fields to create a sprawling buffer zone inside the enclave in the early months of the war, according to a new report from an Israeli rights group, actions the troops described,...

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Claire Parker |Heidi Levine

Aid groups struggle to provide for thousands displaced in West Bank (washingtonpost.com) Aid groups struggle to provide for thousands displaced in West Bank By Claire Parker; Heidi Levine 2025033006300200 JENIN, West Bank — A months-long Israeli military operation has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians in the northern West Bank, a crisis that local authorities say shows no signs of abating as humanitarian groups, hamstrung by Israeli restrictions and funding challenges, struggle to...

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Claire Parker |Herb Scribner |Michael Birnbaum |Abigail Hauslohner |Warren Strobel |Ellen Nakashima

The Israeli militaryissued evacuation orders for several areasof northern Gaza late Monday, forcing another round of displacement for Palestinians who were able to return to theirhomes in the decimated north in late January for the first time since the early days of the war.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Susannah George |Claire Parker |Abbie Cheeseman

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Health Ministry said Sunday — a grim indicator of the conflict’s continued lethality less than a week since Israel shattered a nearly two-month-old ceasefire, launching airstrikes and ground incursions into the territory. Israel launched the war in Gaza in response to the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks that killed about 1,200 people and took roughly 250 people hostage.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Susannah George |Claire Parker |Miriam Berger |Hazem Balousha

DUBAI — The shattering of a hard-fought ceasefire in the Gaza Strip this week sent regional officials scrambling to get Israel and Hamas back to the negotiating table, in a last-ditch effort to salvage months of painstaking diplomacy as the Palestinian death toll from renewed Israeli strikes soared past 500.