In Gaza, We Are Waking Up to a Terrible Reality
The idea that life can be more than sheer survival is part of the fragile sense of hope that the recent cease-fire has ...
Wounded Gazans Begin to Leave for Egypt Through Reopened Rafah Crossing
The border point had been closed after Israel invaded the southern city of Rafah in May but is opening again as part of the ...
The skies now quiet, Gazans search for water, food, shelter
The sky has cleared of warplanes. Humanitarian aid is pouring in. Masses of people have returned to the bombed-out north. Medical evacuations are to restart Saturday. But Palestinians are still living ...
North Carolina company sending armed contractors to staff Gaza checkpoint
A North Carolina security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the ...
‘We came back for nothing’: Returning home to northern Gaza, Palestinians find death and destruction
Khamis and Ahmad Imarah knew they wouldn’t find much more than rubble when returning to their home in northern Gaza. But they had to go. Their father and brother are still buried under the debris, ...
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3 Israeli and 5 Thai hostages are freed in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners
Three more Israeli and five Thai hostages have been released by Palestinian militants from captivity and returned to Israel, ...
This is what one family in Gaza returned home to after 15 months of war
More than 375,000 Palestinians have made their way back to homes in northern Gaza after 15 months on the run because of war ...
Palestinians celebrate their return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war
Israel lifted its closure of northern Gaza for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas in ...
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza
Trump says he’d like to see Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — ...
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Palestinians in Gaza return to find their city in ruins after Israeli troops withdraw
With a ceasefire agreement pausing the war between Israel and Hamas, Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza city centers. For the first time in eight months, NPR got a glimpse of Rafah this week.