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World Food Program: Our Stocks Are Empty in Gaza

UN agency delivers last it had before 8-week-old blockade took effect

(Newser) - The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory. The WFP said in a statement that it had delivered the last of its stocks to...

Every Night, Pope Called a Small Church in Gaza

Francis asked Palestinian Catholics 'to be strong'

(Newser) - Hours after the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023, the only Catholic church in Gaza received a call from Rome. It was the first of what became nightly discussions between the parishioners of Holy Family Church and Pope Francis, Reuters reports. The pope "always healed our wounds and asked...

Israel Assesses Blame in Killing of Palestinian Medics

A deputy commander will be fired over the attack last month

(Newser) - An Israeli investigation into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gaza by Israeli forces said Sunday it found a chain of "professional failures," and a deputy commander will be fired—one of the most severe punishments of the 18-month war. Israel at first claimed that...

World Press Photo Winner Is 'Quiet' but 'Speaks Loudly'

Samar Abu Elouf's winning image shows Palestinian boy who lost his arms in Israeli strike

(Newser) - A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza was honored Thursday as World Press Photo's photo of the year. The image, taken by Qatar-based Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times, shows 9-year-old Mahmoud...

Hamas 'Lost Contact' With Group Holding Last Living US Hostage

Meanwhile, father of 21-year-old Edan Alexander has a lot to say about son's captivity in Gaza

(Newser) - Edan Alexander is believed to be the last living American citizen being held hostage in Gaza, but new fears have arisen after Hamas now claims they've lost contact with the group holding the 21-year-old. In a Tuesday statement, a spokesman for Hamas' military arm, the Qassam Brigades, said that...

Israel Finishes Corridor Cutting Off Rafah

Expansion throughout Gaza will force them to evacuate, Palestinians are told

(Newser) - Israel announced Saturday it has completed construction of a new security corridor that cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, as the military said it would soon expand "vigorously" in most of the small coastal territory. Palestinians were further squeezed into shrinking areas of...

Microsoft Fires Two for Protesting AI Contracts

Protestors criticized the company's AI role in Israeli military actions

(Newser) - As Microsoft's 50th anniversary event unfolded last week, protests took place on the company's campus that led to a pair of swift dismissals. The AP reports that two employees were fired for protesting and interrupting speeches Friday at the company's campus in Redmond, Washington, objecting to...

Israel Reveals a Strategy Change: Hold 'Large Areas' of Gaza

It says it will add the land to its security zones

(Newser) - Hamas has said the release of its remaining Israeli hostages won't happen until Israel fully withdraws from Gaza. Israel looks to be moving in the other direction. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday announced it would expand its military offensive "to crush and clean the area of...

3 Arrested in Rabbi's Murder
3 Sentenced to
Death in Rabbi's Murder
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Mar 31, 2025 6:02 PM CDT

3 Sentenced to Death in Rabbi's Murder

Zvi Kogan was kidnapped, killed in United Arab Emirates last year

(Newser) - A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced three people to death for the killing of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan, state media reported Monday. The state-run WAM news agency announced the verdicts after a trial in Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeals' State Security Chamber. It said a fourth...

Gaza Officials Report Death Toll Milestone

More than 50K Palestinians have been killed since Israel-Hamas war began, health ministry says

(Newser) - More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the territory's Health Ministry said Sunday, as new Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight—including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Israel's military also sent...

Beneath Rubble in Gaza, a Tiny 25-Day-Old Orphan

Infant survives Israeli strike that killed her parents, brother

(Newser) - As rescuers dug through the remains of a collapsed apartment building in Gaza's Khan Younis on Thursday, they could hear the cries of a baby from underneath the rubble. Suddenly, calls of "God is great!" rang out. A man sprinted out of the wreckage carrying a living...

Israel Launches 'Limited' Ground Operation in Gaza
Israeli Troops
Are Back in Gaza
Mar 19, 2025 12:53 PM CDT

Israeli Troops Are Back in Gaza

IDF launches 'limited ground operation' after airstrikes resume

(Newser) - Israel said Wednesday it launched a "limited ground operation" in northern Gaza to retake part of a corridor that bisects the territory, and the country's defense minister warned that the army plans to step up the attacks that shattered a two-month ceasefire "with an intensity that you...

Israel Launches Big Strike on Gaza, Shattering Ceasefire

More than 400 reported killed amid stalled peace talks with Hamas

(Newser) - Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, the first major strikes since a ceasefire with Hamas took effect in January. The strikes killed more than 400 people and wounded over 500, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the...

Protest Leader at Columbia Now Faces Deportation
Protest Leader at Columbia
Now Faces Deportation
THE RUNDOWN
Mar 10, 2025 11:57 AM CDT

Protest Leader at Columbia Now Faces Deportation

Mahmoud Khalil arrested by ICE agents under new crackdown

(Newser) - A former Columbia University grad student and Palestinian activist who helped organize anti-Israel protests at the school was arrested in his university-owned apartment over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, reports the AP , which calls the move "a significant escalation in the Trump administration's pledge to...

Israel Has Cut Off Power to Gaza, Officials Say
Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza
Mar 10, 2025 7:55 AM CDT

Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza

Hamas slams the latest 'starvation policy' move

(Newser) - Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Israel last week suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million Palestinians, an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest...

Muslim Leaders Reject Trump's Plan for Palestinians

Trump said he wants to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population

(Newser) - Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by President Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and instead backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead. The AP reports that the foreign ministers gathered...

Trump Issues 'Last Warning' to Hamas Amid US Talks

Negotiations are a break from history of not dealing with terrorist groups

(Newser) - US officials have been holding direct talks with Hamas about the release of hostages held in Gaza, negotiations that have included the possibilities of extending the ceasefire and ending the war. Talks have focused on the militant group freeing several American-Israeli dual citizens who were taken hostage in the Oct....

US Doubles Down: Palestinians Need to Leave

US, Israel reject new Gaza reconstruction plan endorsed by Arab League

(Newser) - The White House has swiftly rejected a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without the forced displacement of 2.1 million Palestinians. President Trump's plan for a US takeover of Gaza that would permanently remove residents sparked outrage and claims of ethnic cleansing last month, prompting Egypt to suggest...

Israel's Spy Agency: We Mistakenly Ignored SIM Cards

A declassified summary of its Oct. 7 findings was released Tuesday

(Newser) - "The Shin Bet did not prevent the massacre of October 7," wrote the head of the Israeli intelligence agency in a report released Tuesday. "I will carry this heavy burden on my shoulders for my entire life." NPR reports that "in an unusual move for...

Israel Halts Aid to Gaza
Israel Cuts Off Aid to Gaza
Mar 2, 2025 7:55 AM CST

Israel Cuts Off Aid to Gaza

It's pressuring Hamas to accept new ceasefire proposal

(Newser) - Israel stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday and warned of "additional consequences" if Hamas doesn't accept a new proposal to extend a fragile ceasefire, per the AP . Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the existing ceasefire agreement and said...

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