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Four Takeaways From Iran’s Presidential Election
The results from Friday’s election, which drew record-low turnout for a presidential race, will force a runoff on July 5 between a reformist and an ultraconservative.
By Vivian Yee
The results from Friday’s election, which drew record-low turnout for a presidential race, will force a runoff on July 5 between a reformist and an ultraconservative.
By Vivian Yee
A recent flurry of diplomacy aims to head off a conflict that could pit the United States directly against Iran.
By Michael Crowley, Julian E. Barnes and Aaron Boxerman
Palestinian officials and residents described strikes and blasts as Israel’s public broadcaster reported that the Israeli military had returned to fight Hamas in Gaza City’s east.
By Hiba Yazbek, Ephrat Livni, Ameera Harouda and Eric Nagourney
We believe the prime minister is driving Israel downhill at an alarming speed, to the extent that we may eventually lose the country we love.
By David Harel, Tamir Pardo, Talia Sasson, Ehud Barak, Aaron Ciechanover and David Grossman
A pro-Israel political group has spent millions to defeat Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York.
By Michael Barbaro, Nicholas Fandos, Mooj Zadie, Jessica Cheung, Liz O. Baylen, Rachel Quester, Marion Lozano, Rowan Niemisto, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Chris Wood
Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, was meeting with the C.I.A. director and the secretary of state on Monday as Israel signaled a potential shift in its military campaign in Gaza.
By Adam Rasgon, Mike Ives and Michael Levenson
About 100 Israelis sued the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, saying it pays local employees in dollars that buoy the terrorist group. But the case faces high legal hurdles.
By Ken Belson and Katherine Rosman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the conflict is about to enter a new stage. Here are four ways that may play out, both in Gaza and at Israel’s northern border.
By Patrick Kingsley
Despite being aware of the devastation in the enclave, many in Israel ask why they should show pity when Palestinians there showed none on Oct. 7.
By Isabel Kershner
The Israeli military said its jets targeted “Hamas military infrastructure” at two sites in the area of Gaza City. The Palestinian Civil Defense emergency rescue organization reported multiple deaths and injuries.
By Reuters
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s chief, warned that the armed group would punish the small island nation if it allowed Israel to use its airports and bases to target Lebanon.
By Ephrat Livni
As the Israeli prime minister’s allies pull him in multiple, contradictory directions, he has publicly focused on his conflict with the Biden administration.
By Shashank Bengali
El portavoz jefe de las fuerzas armadas hace pública su frustración por la incapacidad del primer ministro israelí de avanzar en un plan para gobernar Gaza en la posguerra.
By Aaron Boxerman
Their tensions, which have grown quietly for months, reached a new peak this week when the military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, made unusually blunt comments.
By Aaron Boxerman
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The armed Islamist group committed war crimes on Oct. 7, experts say, and continues to do so by holding hostages.
By Amanda Taub
Thousands of tons of aid stockpiled in southern Gaza cannot be distributed because the roads are too dangerous, relief groups say.
By Vivian Yee and Aaron Boxerman
The new practice is supposed to make it easier and safer to distribute desperately needed aid around Gaza. Aid groups are hopeful, but say more is needed.
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Officials hope a looming deadline will pressure Israel to open more land routes into the territory, which is facing extreme levels of hunger.
By Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
A full-scale war could devastate both Israel and Lebanon, where the Hezbollah militia is a far better trained and equipped adversary than Hamas.
By Aaron Boxerman and Hwaida Saad
You have to wonder if American “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of Israel’s government.
By Thomas L. Friedman
Invoking Nazis and pogroms in discussing the Hamas attacks is wrong and offensive and helps the Israeli government avoid responsibility for its failures.
By Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Senior Democrats who had taken the unusual step of holding out relented to pressure from the Biden administration and allowed a multibillion-dollar sale of weapons to move ahead.
By Robert Jimison
The peril faced by humanitarian workers in Gaza has interrupted or obstructed the delivery of aid in a place where, aid groups have warned, hundreds of thousands of people are facing famine conditions.
By Raja Abdulrahim
They are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.
By Martin Griffiths
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Pro-Palestinian student activists at one Belgian university have borrowed from the U.S. playbook of encampments and slogans. The results, however, have been starkly different.
By Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Ordinary Gazans are bearing the brunt of the 8-month Israeli military onslaught on the territory and many blame the Palestinian armed faction for starting the war.
By Raja Abdulrahim and Iyad Abuheweila
The United States, France and other mediators have sought for months to reach an agreement that would stop the tit-for-tat missile strikes over Israel’s border with Lebanon.
By Aaron Boxerman, Euan Ward and Aurelien Breeden
Ambas partes tienen exigencias extremas y buscan un acuerdo que determine el destino de la Gaza de posguerra y les permita declarar la victoria.
By Isabel Kershner
Israel said it took care to avoid harming civilians when it targeted two Hamas fighters. An investigation shows civilian casualties were almost inevitable.
By Bilal Shbair, Iyad Abuheweila, Neil Collier, Cassandra Vinograd, Christiaan Triebert and Lauren Leatherby
Of the roughly 250 people kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attacks, 120 are believed to remain in Gaza. Israel believes at least third of them have died.
By Victoria Kim
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