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Israel’s military says it targeted ‘Hamas compound’ in a school, while Hamas-linked media says 39 killed
An Israeli fighter jet releases flares, and a drone is seen from Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Gaza at risk of diseases this summer from piled-up waste, NGO warns
FILE PHOTO: A views shows the damaged Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital and the area around it following a two-week operation, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City April 2, 2024. To match Special Report ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA-HEALTH REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo
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Israeli nationalists march through Palestinian area of Jerusalem
Israeli right-wing activists gather with Israeli national flags outside the Damascus Gate of the old city of Jerusalem on June 5, 2024, during a march commemorating Jerusalem Day, marking the anniversary of the "reunification" of the holy city after Israel captured the Arab eastern sector from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Netanyahu says Israel prepared for strong action in the north
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on May 13, 2024. President Joe Biden has called for a quick ceasefire and end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the militant group is no longer capable of launching an attack on Israel like the one on Oct. 7. Netanyahu and far-right ministers disagree, saying that destroying Hamas will require continued Israeli military operations in the strip. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
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Israel steps up ‘precise’ military offensive in Gaza amid renewed truce efforts
Palestinian children wounded in the Israeli bombardment on a residential building in Bureij refugee camp, are treated at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, late Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Saher Alghorra)
world
Biden takes a big swing at hostage-for-truce deal, puts onus on Israeli, Hamas officials to step up
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony for the 'Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars and Victims of Terrorism' at Yad LeBanim in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, May 12, 2024. The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel’s longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Israeli air strikes near Syria’s Aleppo kill several, including Iranian adviser, reports say
FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag is seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran, February 1, 2023. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo
opinion
Netanyahu’s hubris in Rafah is being fed by enablers at home and abroad
Mairav Zonzsein
world
Lebanon’s Hezbollah launches drones squadron towards Israeli military targets
A view shows a damaged street amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in Houla village near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
world
Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages, including three older men who appeared in video
Placards with photos of hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, hang amidst the debris of the burnt houses in the Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, March 12, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
world
UN experts call for all countries to recognize a Palestinian state
The Palestinian flag flies after being raised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a ceremony outside the United Nations during the 70th session of the U. N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
world
Israel seeks a ‘governing alternative’ to Hamas in Gaza. It’s been tried and failed before
Amira Al-Jojo holds her son Yousef Al-Jojo, 10 months old, who suffers from malnutrition, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/ Jehad Alshrafi)
world
Hezbollah drone falls in northern Israeli city, no injuries, Israel’s military says
world
Parade for Israel in New York toned down as Gaza war casts a grim shadow
People march on Fifth avenue as they participate in the annual Israel Day Parade on June 2, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski / AFP) (Photo by JOHN LAMPARSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
world
The Israeli army says it investigates itself. Where do those investigations stand?
FILE - Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024. Throughout its grinding seven-month war against Hamas, Israel has pledged to investigate a series of deadly events in which its military forces are suspected of wrongdoing. The commitment comes in the face of mounting claims — from human rights groups and the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor — that the country's leaders are committing war crimes in Hamas-ruled Gaza.(AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah, File)
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Disruptions at University of Chicago graduation as school withholds 4 diplomas over pro-Palestinian protests
FILE - A student walks in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Main Quadrangle on the University of Chicago campus Monday, May 6, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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Hezbollah fighters shoot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon and fire rockets at an Israeli base
A Lebanese man gestures as he inspects a destroyed house that was hit on Friday night by an Israeli airstrike, killing one woman and wounding several other people, in the southern village of Adloun, Lebanon, Saturday, June 1, 2024. The militant Hezbollah group shot down Saturday an Israeli Hermes 900 Kochav drone over south Lebanon, after hours of Israeli drones strikes that killed at least one person and wounded others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)
world
Israeli leader Netanyahu faces growing pressure at home after calling Biden’s Gaza proposal a ‘non-starter’
Smoke billows after an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
canada
Trudeau endorses proposal outlined by Biden to wind down Israel-Hamas war
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period, Wednesday, May 29, 2024 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
world
Biden details a three-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the verdict in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial and on the Middle East, from the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, May 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
opinion
All eyes are on Rafah this week. The ramifications will last generations
Marsha Lederman
world
Israel confirms its forces are in central Rafah in expanding offensive in southern Gaza city
Palestinians make their way as they inspect the damages after Israeli forces withdrew from a part of Jabalia refugee camp, following a raid, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
world
Pro-Palestinian camp at Wayne State dismantled while MIT students walk out of commencement
Pro-Palestinian students march over the Massachusetts Avenue bridge after walking out during the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 30, 2024. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Slovenia’s government endorses recognition of a Palestinian state, sends to parliament for approval
This photograph taken in Ljubljana on May 30, 2024 shows a Palestinian flag next to the Slovenian and European flags on the Government Building, as Government approved the recognition of a Palestinian State, and a vote is to be held in the Parliament on June 4. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP) (Photo by JURE MAKOVEC/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli air strike on Rafah kills 12 Palestinians, Gaza medics say
A Palestinian man wounded in an Israeli strike is helped as he walks outside a field hospital where he receives treatment, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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China’s Xi pledges more Gaza aid, talks trade at summit with Arab leaders
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the 10th ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/Pool
u.s. politics
Held hostage by Hamas, Israeli woman surviving a continuous nightmare
Hagar Brodutch is photographed on May 28, 2024. Brodutch and her three children were taken hostage by Hamas after the Oct massacre in Israel. They were finally released on Nov 26 but don’t see returning to their home on a kibbutz in the immediate future. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
world
Nikki Haley writes ‘Finish Them’ on Israeli artillery shell, drawing criticism
Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley tours Kibbutz Nir Oz in the aftermath of the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, southern Israel May 27, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
international business
Meta identifies networks pushing deceptive content likely generated by AI
FILE PHOTO: People walk behind a Meta Platforms logo during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
world
Israel seizes Gaza’s entire border with Egypt, presses with raids into Rafah
A man looks on as Palestinians inspect a tent camp damaged in an Israeli strike during an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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Israeli incursion could halt Rafah’s last functioning hospital, WHO says
A vehicle is parked near the International Red Cross field hospital in southern Gaza, which has been set up to try to meet what it described as an "overwhelming" demand for health services since Israel's military operation on Rafah began last week‏, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Al-Mawasi area in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 16, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa
world
Ship attacked in Red Sea, takes on water off coast of Yemen, authorities say
An anti-government protestor holds up the national flag and an effigy on a noose of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as they call for his resignation in the capital Sanaa, on April 23, 2011, while Gulf states continue in their efforts to bring the impasse to an end.
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Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza’s Rafah as offensive expands
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes during an Israeli military operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
world
Spain, Norway and Ireland formally recognize Palestinian statehood as EU rift with Israel widens
Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Bueno attends a meeting for talks on the Middle East in Brussels, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell insisted Sunday that Israel must abide by the UN top court's rulings and end its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and, at the same time, questioned the possible involvement of authorities in the settler violence against Palestinians on the West Bank. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
politics
Ottawa extends special visa program so 5,000 Palestinians can join family in Canada
Two women walk on an asphalted road in the middle of a deserted camp for displaced Palestinians on the border with Egypt in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. Israeli troops began their ground assault on parts of Rafah early in May 2024, defying international opposition including from top ally the United States, which voiced fears for the more than one million civilians trapped in the city. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
canada
Evening Update: Netanyahu says deadly Rafah strike was a ‘tragic mistake’
Children light candles during a march against Israel and in solidarity with Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, on the Mediterranean Sea corniche in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 27, 2024. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Monday that a "tragic mistake" had been made after an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians and killed at least 45 people, according to local officials. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)