Hajar Harb

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Miriam Berger |Heba Farouk Mahfouz |Hazem Balousha |Hajar Harb

JAFFA, Israel — The move by Hamas in recent weeks to try to stop a wave of protests against it in Gaza reflects the group’s determination to continue silencing dissent even as the war with Israel has left the militants badly weakened. The demonstrations, which broke out in late March, represented the boldest challenge to Hamas in years and underscored the desperation among Palestinians in Gaza to end the war.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Miriam Berger |Heba Farouk Mahfouz |Hazem Balousha |Hajar Harb

Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel (washingtonpost.com) Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel By Miriam Berger; Heba Farouk Mahfouz; Hazem Balousha; Hajar Harb 2025041606004600 JAFFA, Israel — The move by Hamas in recent weeks to try to stop a wave of protests against it in Gaza reflects the group's determination to continue silencing dissent even as the war with Israel has left the militants badly weakened. The demonstrations,...

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Abbie Cheeseman |Hajar Harb

Israeli strike damages last fully functional hospital in Gaza City (washingtonpost.com) Israeli strike damages last fully functional hospital in Gaza City By Abbie Cheeseman; Hajar Harb 2025041319144800 BEIRUT — The Israeli military bombed the last fully functional hospital in Gaza City early Sunday, medics there said, giving patients, doctors and displaced Palestinians sheltering on the grounds only 20 minutes to evacuate before it struck and destroyed key parts of the facility. More than...

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Miriam Berger |Louisa Loveluck |Imogen Piper |Hazem Balousha |Hajar Harb |Abbie Cheeseman

The 14 Palestinian emergency workers had been missing for a week when U.N. and civil defense personnel found them late last month in a mass grave of sand. Israeli soldiers had buried them, as well as the wreckage of their ambulances, videos showed. Theirresting place, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah, was marked with one of their red emergency lights. The Israeli military says its soldiers had believed the men were Palestinian militants and had fired on them from a distance.

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Miriam Berger |Hajar Harb |Heba Farouk Mahfouz

15 first responders killed in Rafah, U.N. says; IDF orders mass evacuation (washingtonpost.com) 15 first responders killed in Rafah, U.N. says; IDF orders mass evacuation By Miriam Berger; Hajar Harb; Heba Farouk Mahfouz 2025033110233200 JAFFA, Israel — Israel on Monday ordered the evacuation of most of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, warning that the military is "returning to combat in great force" in the area, a day after the bodies of more than a dozen emergency personnel, missing for a...