09 Jan, 2025

A month into war, Netanyahu says Israel will have an ‘overall security’ role in Gaza indefinitely

World News Entire city blocks have been reduced to rubble, and around 70% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes, with many heeding Israeli orders to head to the southern part of the besieged territory, which is also being bombed. Palestinian firefighters extinguish fire caused by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee […]

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Israel-Hamas war misinformation is everywhere. Here are the facts

World News In recent weeks, social media users have pushed false claims that “crisis actors” are staging scenes of carnage and that U.S. Marines are flooding in to fight on the ground in Gaza. Palestinians look for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, […]

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Blinken presses for pause in Gaza fighting on visit to Israel amid fears war could widen

World News Around 800 people left Gaza over the past two days — the first time people departed the besieged territory other than four hostages released by Hamas and another rescued by Israeli forces. Palestinians look at the apartment of Khaled Kharousha that was destroyed by the Israeli military in Nablus, West Bank, Friday, Nov. 3, […]

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Live updates: Massachusetts reacts to Israel-Hamas war

Local News Many with Massachusetts ties are feeling the impacts of the war. Protesters took to Boylston Street to march toward the Israeli Embassy during an “All Out for Palestine” rally. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe More than three weeks after Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip launched a brutal surprise attack on Israelis, […]

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Israeli defense minister says the Gaza war has entered a new stage with an expanded ground operation

World News The military released grainy images Saturday showing tank columns moving slowly in open areas of Gaza. Friends and relatives of Roi Popplewell mourn during his funeral at Kibbutz Yagur near Haifa, northern Israel, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) AP By ISABEL DEBRE, JULIA FRANKEL and SAM MAGDY, Associated Press October 28, […]

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At Boston hospitals, controversy erupts over what should be said about the Israel-Hamas war

The Boston Globe Hospitals are under fire from their own staff for their comments — as well as for their silence. Tufts Medical Center was criticized by some for its initial statement. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff By Chris Serres, The Boston Globe October 23, 2023 | 11:06 AM As doctors with years of medical training, hospital […]

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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 […]

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Live updates: Massachusetts reacts to Israel-Hamas war

Local News Many with Massachusetts ties are feeling the impacts of the war. A crowd of pro-Israel demonstrators react as pro-Palestine demonstrators drive past their rally on the front steps of Cambridge City Hall. Matthew J. Lee / The Boston Globe More than a week after fighters with the militant group Hamas in the Gaza […]

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Palestinian American boy, 6, killed and his mother wounded in Illinois hate crime motivated by Israel-Hamas war, police say

National News “Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis.” By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press updated on October 16, 2023 | 9:12 AM CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois landlord accused […]

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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. […]

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