Miriam Berger

Jerusalem

Reporter and Writer, Foreign News at The Washington Post

@washingtonpost reporter in Jerusalem covering the Israel-Gaza war [email protected]

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IDF says ‘misunderstanding’ led to killings of Gaza emergency workers

3 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Gerry Shih |Miriam Berger

IDF says ‘misunderstanding’ led to killings of Gaza emergency workers (washingtonpost.com) IDF says ‘misunderstanding’ led to killings of Gaza emergency workers By Louisa Loveluck; Gerry Shih; Miriam Berger 2025042016331500 The Israeli military said Sunday it has dismissed the field commander of a special forces unit that shot and killed 14 emergency workers and a U.N. employee in Rafah in southern Gaza last month and attributed the killings to an "operational misunderstanding," following a...
Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel

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.
Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel

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,...
How Palestinian first responders ended up in a mass grave in Gaza

1 week 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.
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2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Miriam Berger
Palestinian American teen fatally shot by Israeli troops in West Bank village

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Miriam Berger |Abbie Cheeseman

Palestinian American teen fatally shot by Israeli troops in West Bank village (washingtonpost.com) Palestinian American teen fatally shot by Israeli troops in West Bank village By Miriam Berger; Abbie Cheeseman 2025040716242300 TURMUS AYYA, West Bank — Hundreds of people gathered at the mosque in this village Monday as they bid farewell to Amer Rabee, a 14-year-old Palestinian American shot dead by Israeli forces a day earlier.
15 first responders killed in Rafah, U.N. says; IDF orders mass evacuation

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...
Amid rubble of Gaza, protesters decry Hamas

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Abbie Cheeseman |Hazem Balousha |Miriam Berger |Mikhail Klimentov

Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza marched through neighborhood rubble chanting against Hamas for a second day Wednesday, in some of the largest anti-war protests the enclave has seen during the ongoing conflict. According to participants and firsthand observers, along with photos and videos shared online and by media outlets,the protests appeared to begin in Beit Lahia, a largely destroyed area of northern Gaza, on Tuesday.
Arab mediators rush to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israel restarts war

1 month ago | spokesman.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.
Arab mediators rush to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israel restarts war

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.