JERUSALEM — More than 100 people were killed Thursday, Gazan health officials said, after a crowd converged on a rare humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza City, triggering a chaotic incident that Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses blamed on Israeli gunfire and Israeli officials blamed on a stampede. More than 700 Palestinians were wounded, according to the … Read more
TEL AVIV — Barak Heymann had been waiting two days for some sign of life. He was lying awake in a bed that was not his, thinking about a person he had never met. She still wasn’t responding. Every morning and every night when the Israeli filmmaker messaged Om Ayan, the young Palestinian woman in … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Jihad Hammouda said he spent 17 days blindfolded and handcuffed in an Israeli detention facility, made to kneel on the ground for hours at a time. He did not know where he was or when he would be released. Israeli soldiers stormed his family home … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RAMALLAH, West Bank — Since the war’s early days, the Israeli army has been telling Nisreen Amour to leave her home in Gaza City and head south. She tried to stay. Even after 45 relatives from further north crowded into her home. Even after her husband died … Read more
Comment on this storyComment JERICHO, West Bank — For the first four days of the war, Adly Saleem kept working at a construction site near Tel Aviv, trying not to panic. Like thousands of other Palestinian workers from Gaza, he found himself suddenly stranded in Israel and separated from his family. Saleem frantically tried to … Read more