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Israeli airstrikes level apartments in Gaza refugee camp, as ground troops battle Hamas militants
World News Palestinians look for survivors following an Israeli airstrike in the Nusseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. Doaa AlBaz / AP KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A flurry of Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on a refugee camp near Gaza City leveled apartment buildings, leaving craters where they once stood, as ground […]
Israeli forces battle Hamas around Gaza City, as military says 800,000 have fled south
World News The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, says nearly 672,000 Palestinians are sheltering in its schools and other facilities — four times their capacity. Palestinians inspect the demolished family home of Saleh al-Arouri, in the West Bank village of Arura, northwest of Ramallah, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. AP Photo/Nasser Nasser By […]
An increase in harassment against Jewish and Muslim Americans has been reported since Hamas attacks
National News A spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Wednesday that the organization’s chapters and national office had received 774 reports of bias-related acts between Oct. 7 and Oct. 24. An NYPD patrol car is parked outside a synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer By CLAUDIA […]
Florida orders state universities to disband pro-Palestinian student group, saying it backs Hamas
Politics Florida officials claim Students for Justice in Palestine is supporting a “terrorist organization.” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press October 26, 2023 | 8:51 AM TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration is taking the extraordinary step of ordering state […]
Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts
World News Israel repeated its calls for people to leave northern Gaza, including by dropping leaflets from the air. Palestinians rescue a woman after an Israeli airstrike on buildings of the Abu Asad family in Deir el-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah) AP By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI […]
The father of American teenage hostage freed by Hamas says she is ‘doing very good’
World News “She’s doing good. She’s doing very good,” said Uri Raanan, who lives in the Chicago suburbs. “I’m in tears, and I feel very, very good.” This photo provided by the Raanan family shows Natalie Raanan and her father, Uri Raanan, in Mexico. The Israeli government said Hamas militants on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, […]
Israel says two Americans held hostage by Hamas, a mother and daughter, have been released
World News The two Americans, Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie, were out of the Gaza Strip and in the hands of the Israeli military, an army spokesman said. Judith Raanan, left, and her daughter Natalie, after Natalie’s recent high school graduation. Raanan Family via AP KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on […]
Israel pounds Gaza, evacuates town near Lebanon ahead of expected ground offensive against Hamas
World News Over a million people have been displaced in Gaza, with many heeding Israel’s orders to evacuate the northern part of the sealed-off coastal enclave. An Israel soldier gestures to passers-by as he drives a military vehicle near the border between Israel and Gaza Strip, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. AP Photo/Francisco Seco By […]
Hamas posts hostage video of woman abducted from Israeli music festival
World News The video, of Mia Schem, 21, was the first Hamas has released of any of its nearly 200 hostages. It showed her being treated for an arm injury and speaking to the camera. Keren, the mother of Mia Schem, and representatives of the families of the abducted and missing persons held by Hamas […]
The war between Israel and Hamas is testing the Republican Party’s isolationist shift
Politics Republican primary voters across New Hampshire who pelted Republican presidential candidates with foreign policy questions this past week are hungry for better answers. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks with reporters after signing papers to get on the Republican presidential primary ballot at the New Hampshire Statehouse, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in Concord, N.H. […]