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PALESTINIANS

An Israeli soldier walks near tanks deployed at a position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 5, 2025
Israel prepares to scale up pressure on Gaza ahead of Trump visit
The new ground operations will likely involve taking control of additional territory while stopping short of a full siege.
An Israeli police officer investigates a crater at the site of a missile attack, launched from Yemen, near Ben Gurion Airport, in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
WORLD
May 5, 2025
Israel vows response after Houthi missile evades air defense
"We will hit back sevenfold at anyone who hurts us,” Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday after the attacks near the country's main airport.
Palestinians receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on April 29.
WORLD
May 5, 2025
Hamas executes looters in Gaza as food crisis worsens under Israeli blockade
Hamas officials have accused some of the looters of working in collaboration with Israel, which has sealed off aid from entering Gaza.
Palestinian girls look at the rubble after Israeli strikes in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 29, 2025
Amnesty accuses Israel of 'live-streamed genocide' in Gaza
In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with "specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (center) leads prayers next to Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Hussein al-Sheikh (third from left) during a meeting of the organization's executive committee in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints aide as potential successor
Hussein al-Sheikh was appointed by Abbas, 89, after the vice presidency position was created during a convention held in Ramallah this week.
Supporters of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas take part in a protest against the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to demand the release of all hostages, in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
WORLD
Apr 27, 2025
Hamas says open to five-year Gaza truce and one-time hostages release
Nearly eight weeks into an Israeli aid blockade, the U.N. says food and medical supplies are running out in the territory.
Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2025
Israel's military finds 'professional failures' in killings of Gaza medics
Fifteen paramedics and other rescue workers were shot dead on March 23 in three separate shootings at the same location near Rafah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the White House in Washington on April 7.
WORLD
Apr 20, 2025
Israel's Netanyahu says military to increase pressure on Hamas
Hamas, whose militants carried out the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war, has said it would only free the remaining hostages under a deal that ends the war.
People walk past a puddle of water by a tent shelter erected near the rubble of a collapsed building in the Nasr neighborhood in western Gaza on Tuesday.
WORLD
Apr 18, 2025
Hamas says it is ready to release remaining hostages for an end to Gaza war
Israel is unlikely to accept Hamas' position, potentially further delaying an end to the attacks that restarted in recent weeks.
An Israeli tank maneuvers in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the Gaza border, on April 7.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 17, 2025
Israel will keep Gaza buffer zone, minister says, as truce bid stalls
Israeli forces have carved out a broad "security zone" extending deep into Gaza, squeezing Palestinians into smaller areas in the south and along the coastline.
A flag bearing a portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah displayed on Feb. 28 in the southern Lebanese border town of Aitaroun.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025
Disarming Lebanon's Hezbollah possible under U.S. pressure, analysts say
Hezbollah was left badly weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel, and Lebanon has since elected a president and formed a government.
The heavily damaged Al-Ahli hospital after an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Sunday. The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of the hospital on Sunday morning, shortly after telling patients and staff to evacuate the site.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Child dies after Israel strike hits Gaza hospital, WHO says
The Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza is one of few functioning hospitals in the war-ravaged territory.
Palestinian girl Silla Abu Aqleen, who lost her right leg during the Israeli military offensive, holds her artificial limb during a physiotherapy session at the Gaza City municipality-run Artificial Limbs and Polio Center, in Gaza City on March 17.
WORLD / Society
Apr 14, 2025
Gaza's amputees face life in a war zone with little treatment and less hope
Israel suspended all humanitarian aid into Gaza after the collapse of a 2-month-old ceasefire last month, complicating efforts to obtain artificial limbs.
Palestinians wait to receive their portion of a hot meal at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Apr 13, 2025
Israel expands Gaza offensive and seizes key corridor
Officials said that the ongoing assault aims to pressure Hamas into freeing its remaining 58 hostages.
Muslim protestors pray outside the main campus of Columbia University during a demonstration to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at the university, in New York on March 14.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 12, 2025
U.S. judge rules Palestinian Columbia student can be deported
The judge's decision came after a combative 90-minute hearing held in a court located inside a jail complex for immigrants.
Demonstrators call for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip, outside the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters in central Tel Aviv on April 5.
WORLD
Apr 11, 2025
Fighter pilots call on Israel to prioritize release of Gaza hostages
A letter said that the war against Hamas "mainly serves personal and political interests, rather than genuine security needs."
Displaced Palestinians flee the Shejaiya district, east of Gaza City, on April 3.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 11, 2025
Israel’s push into Gaza lays ground for full-scale occupation
The move would risk increasing the death toll in Gaza, siphoning more reserve soldiers away from an economy stifled by war and further isolating Israel.
The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 19
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2025
Harvard plans to borrow $750 million amid federal funding threats
Trump has threatened to slash federal funding for U.S. universities that his administration says have tolerated antisemitism on their campuses.
A woman walks past campaign posters depicting Watson candidates Dr. Ziad Basyouny, an independent, and Tony Bourke, of Labor, in Lakemba, Australia, on March 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 8, 2025
Bringing the war home: Gaza threatens to reshape an Australian election
The ruling Labor party, which has a razor-thin majority, is vulnerable in several seats where pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel voters make up a large proportion of the electorate.
Palestinians mourn medics who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31.
WORLD
Apr 7, 2025
Israeli military changes initial account of Gaza aid worker killings
Fifteen paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow grave where their bodies were found a week later.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Japanese manufacturers moving headquarters out of central Tokyo
A building in Kawasaki housing Toshiba's new headquarters
Is sumo becoming a victim of its own popularity?
A training session at Shikoroyama stable in June 2016. Sumo training sessions are increasingly simulated or the preserve of group tours.
Japanese man suspected of ordering double murder in Manila
Two suspects arrested over the killing of two Japanese last week are held in restraints in Manila on Tuesday.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.

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