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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Rasgon |Rawan Ahmad
The holiday is usually a celebration of the liberation of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. But for many Israelis, the suffering of the captives still in Gaza is tempering the joy. When Yona Schnitzer, a marketing writer from Tel Aviv, attended the traditional Passover Seder meal last year, he said a special prayer for the return of all of the hostages still being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza. He had thought their freedom would be secured by Passover 2025, but that did not happen.
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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes
HAIFA, Israel -- Bilal Mohammad Ramadan AbuKresh has lost his home, his job, his wife and seven other relatives during the war in the Gaza Strip. Now, as the United Nations closes 25 bakeries across the territory, he is also losing his only reliable source of food. Before Wednesday, AbuKresh, 40, said he would leave his tent in a camp for displaced people in northern Gaza at dawn and stand in line for hours at one of the bakeries, waiting for bread for his four children.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes
Bilal Mohammad Ramadan AbuKresh has lost his home, his job, his wife and seven other relatives during the war in Gaza. Now, as the United Nations closes 25 bakeries across the territory, he is also losing his only reliable source of food. Before Wednesday, Mr. AbuKresh, 40, said he would leave his tent in a camp for displaced people in northern Gaza at dawn and stand in line for hours at one of the bakeries, waiting for bread for his four children.
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4 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Rawan Ahmad |Abu Bakr Bashir |Iyad Abuheweila |Hiba Yazbek
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Palestinians in Gaza protested against the war for a second straight day on Wednesday and chanted slogans against Hamas, frustrated and angry over the collapse of a cease-fire with Israel that many had hoped would become permanent.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Ephrat Livni |Rawan Ahmad
El director palestino del documental que obtuvo el Oscar, No Other Land, fue golpeado brutalmente cerca de su casa por colonos israelíes y detenido por autoridades israelíes en Cisjordania ocupada el lunes por la noche, dijeron testigos.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Rawan Ahmad |Ephrat Livni
7 hours agoThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Rawan Ahmad |Ephrat Livni
A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land" was beaten bloody near his home by Israeli settlers and detained by the Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, witnesses said. The director, Hamdan Ballal, was set upon in Susya, his home village, by at least 20 masked people, mostly teenagers armed with rocks, sticks and knives, according to Joseph Kaplan Weinger, 26, who said he had come upon the attack after it began.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Kingsley |Rawan Ahmad |Yan Zhuang |Aaron Boxerman |Michael Levenson
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he had ordered the aerial attacks after Hamas's "repeated refusal" to release the remaining hostages it holds. "This is just the beginning," he said. Israeli forces launched deadly aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, ending a temporary cease-fire with Hamas that began in January, and raising the prospect of a return to all-out war. More than 400 people, including children, were killed in the strikes, Gaza's health ministry said.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Yan Zhuang |Rawan Ahmad |Patrick Kingsley
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sudden attempt to remove the head of Israel's domestic intelligence agency is the latest salvo in a two-year campaign by the Israeli government to exert more control over different branches of the state. The move prompted calls on Monday for mass protests and led to criticism from business leaders and the attorney general, summoning memories of the social upheaval in 2023 that was set off by a similar push to reduce the power of state watchdogs.
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1 month ago | 
kansas.com | Yan Zhuang |Rawan Ahmad |Patrick Kingsley
EDITORS NOTE: EDS: SUBS for complete writethru to update.); (With: ISRAEL-GOVT-ASSESS, ISRAEL-GAZA-HOSTAGES); Raja Abdulrahim contributed reporting. Israeli forces launched a large-scale attack across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, in the first major strikes on the territory since Israel's ceasefire with Hamas began roughly two months ago. Gaza's Health Ministry said more than 300 people had been killed.
