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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Fatima Karim
The Palestine Red Crescent released a video made by a paramedic before he was killed, and called the deaths of 15 rescue workers "a full-fledged war crime." Israel has said it is investigating.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
The Palestinian Authority was carrying out one of the most extensive security operations in its history, pursuing armed militants in the West Bank city of Jenin. For weeks, the authority’s forces slowly advanced on the militants’ densely populated stronghold, Palestinian officials said. When the Israeli military launched its own wide-scale raid there in January, the authority was expected to abandon its operation. But it did not.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
15 hours ago“We are ready today, if not yesterday, to step back from governance,” Basem Naim, a senior political official for Hamas, told NBC News. TEL AVIV — Hamas is willing to cede political power and administrative governance of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian unity government, but would not disarm unless …
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
The Palestinian Authority was carrying out one of the most extensive security operations in its history, pursuing armed militants in the West Bank city of Jenin. For weeks, the authority's forces slowly advanced on the militants' densely populated stronghold, Palestinian officials said. When the Israeli military launched its own wide-scale raid there in January, the authority was expected to abandon its operation.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Fatima Karim |Erika Solomon
Israeli operations against militants in the West Bank have escalated to a level not seen since the Second Intifada of the early 2000s. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes, with Israel's defense minister saying they will not be allowed to return. And for the first time in two decades, Israeli forces have sent tanks into the city of Jenin and established a military post in another, Tulkarm.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Isabel Kershner |Aaron Boxerman |Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
Hamas released six Israeli hostages from Gaza on Saturday, delivering the last living captives set to be freed in the first phase of a fragile cease-fire. That truce was already jolted this week when the militant group initially returned remains purportedly of an Israeli hostage that testing revealed to be someone else.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
Hamas says it will release bodies of four hostages, including Bibas children, on Thursday and six living hostages on SaturdayCNN — Hamas on Tuesday said that it will release the dead bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest people held by the group, Kfir and Ariel Bibas. The group will also release six living hostages on Saturday, instead of the three that had been expected, Khalil Al-Hayya, …
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
Hamas’s chief negotiator said Tuesday that militants intend to hand over the remains of four Israeli hostages to Israel on Thursday in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Khalil al-Hayya said members of the Bibas family — some of the most well-known hostages worldwide — would be among the four bodies handed over to Israel on Thursday, without saying how many. The three remaining members of the Bibas family in the Gaza Strip are Shiri Bibas and her two children.
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2 months ago | 
rsn.org | Fatima Karim |Patrick Kingsley
The Israeli military launched a wide-scale operation last month against militants in several cities in the West Bank. Now, roughly 40,000 Palestinians have fled their homes — the highest since Israel occupied the territory nearly six decades ago, according to researchers.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Fatima Karim |Patrick Kingsley
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A weekslong Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what historians and researchers say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.
