A year after Hamas led the Oct. 7 attacks from Gaza, stunning Israelis with unprecedented carnage, Israel has gone from disbelief in its own security failures to expanding an unprecedented war on all fronts with no end in sight. Israel’s troops are pushing a ground invasion into southern Lebanon as …
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Faress Arafat, 22, worked as a volunteer nurse in Gaza — first in the emergency department at al-Shifa Hospital and then in displacement camps in Rafah. It has now been one year since Israel’s war on Gaza began. More than 41,000 people have been killed, and 100,000 have been injured. …
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The war in the Middle East is continuing to spiral toward catastrophe: Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles against Israel Tuesday, targeting what it said were three military bases around Tel Aviv. Only moments before, two attackers fired on a crowd of train passengers in the same city, killing seven …
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A wave of Israeli strikes aimed at dismantling Hezbollah in Lebanon has triggered a cycle of violence and escalation that could result in regional war, sources tell Rolling Stone. Israel’s military said it has conducted more than 1,600 strikes in Lebanon over the past two days, aimed at destroying Hezbollah’s …
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JERUSALEM — Before he was taken hostage on Oct. 7, during the Hamas-led massacre at the Nova music festival, Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin thrived in a Jerusalem refuge where Israeli Jews and occupied Palestinians escape from reality and engage freely as equals. Since then, the community at the bar, Sira, has …
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There is eerie silence on Israel’s border with Lebanon, when the air raid sirens from cross-border strikes aren’t ringing through abandoned towns and kibbutzim. The roads winding through the northern Israelis hills towards Kfar Yuval are empty, except for a burned-out Israeli military jeep and missile fragments embedded in the …
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A planned screening of the film Bearing Witness about the Hamas attack on an Israel music festival in Cannes was canceled Tuesday, with organizers claiming it was due to a security threat, Variety reports. “About an hour before, we received an order from the [Israeli Defense Forces] not to hold …
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A documentary on Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack at the Nova Music festival in Israel, titled We Will Dance Again, will be released on Paramount+ this fall. The film will be “told through the eyes of more than a dozen survivors, many of whom videotaped their experiences as the massacre unfolded,” …
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“Rashed Saber” was thrown from bed and concussed last Wednesday when an Israeli drone missile crashed through his family’s home in eastern Rafah at 5:30 a.m. He doesn’t know how he survived the attack. The young doctor, who fled Israel’s invasion of Gaza City and has spent most of the …
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Activists are planning to lead a flotilla of ships to Gaza, amid Israel’s ongoing siege. They’ll transport 5,500 tons of desperately needed food and supplies from Istanbul to the Palestinian territory, where famine looms. The activists don’t necessarily expect to make it there. They hope they do. But in the …
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