RAMALLAH, West Bank — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Biden administration’s latest effort to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in Ramallah on Sunday, where the leaders talked about how to manage the growing civilian toll of Israel’s assault on Gaza and their efforts to help avoid the conflict from … Read more
RAMALLAH, West Bank — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his frenetic Mideast diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and begin to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the … Read more
JERUSALEM — Israel on Friday deported thousands of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory, Palestinian authorities said, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted. Some workers, streaming by foot through an Israeli crossing that had been sealed shut … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused President Biden of supporting the “genocide” of Palestinians amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, saying that Americans will remember his actions when he’s up for reelection in 2024. Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in the House, posted a video on X, … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in the first 25 days of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. They were hit by airstrikes, smashed by misfired rockets, burned by blasts and crushed by buildings, and among them were newborns and toddlers, avid readers, … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. Tanks and infantry pushed into … Read more
In the past three weeks, more than 1,400 people in Israel and 7,000 Palestinians have been killed amid fighting between Israel and Hamas. That is, if you believe the casualty figures coming out of the region. This week, U.S. President Joe Biden suggested that the Palestinian death toll in Gaza, which has been under heavy … Read more
In this photo released on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, by the Hezbollah Media Relations Office, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Ziad al-Nakhleh, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, center, and Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials, their first reported meeting … Read more
October 23, 2023 at 4:43 p.m. EDT Residents search the ruins of the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank, after an Israeli airstrike killed two people. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JENIN, West Bank — A group of young Hamas fighters in black tracksuits … Read more