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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
Both sides are pursuing maximalist demands, jockeying for a deal that will determine the fate of postwar Gaza — and allow them to declare victory.
By Isabel Kershner
An intensifying conflict in Israel’s north has raised fears of a full-fledged war.
By Aaron Boxerman and Euan Ward
Israel’s military said its forces were pressing on with operations in Rafah, where they were engaged in “face-to-face encounters” with Hamas fighters.
By Hiba Yazbek and Abu Bakr Bashir
The findings cite acts such as sexual violence and the deliberate killing or abducting of civilians by Hamas. They also accuse Israel of collective punishment and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
By Erika Solomon
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The four hostages rescued in Gaza were described as malnourished and traumatized.
By Adam Rasgon and Isabel Kershner
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Hamas proposed some changes that were unworkable in its response to a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan, but that the U.S. would keep trying to strike a deal between Israel and Hamas.
By The New York Times
La comisión presentó el examen más detallado de Naciones Unidas hasta la fecha sobre los acontecimientos ocurridos a partir del 7 de octubre.
By Nick Cumming-Bruce
Around 215 rockets were launched from Lebanon into northern Israel in an apparent response to the strike, Israeli army radio said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
By Euan Ward
A commission produced the United Nations’ most detailed examination yet of the Oct. 7 attacks and the subsequent war in Gaza.
By Nick Cumming-Bruce
A cease-fire deal in Gaza might halt a war between Israel and Hezbollah.
By Mairav Zonszein
The commander was among the highest-ranking Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon to have been killed in the eight-month-long conflict, a Lebanese official said.
By Ephrat Livni and Euan Ward
Despite positive statements and international urging, neither of the warring parties accepted a U.S.-backed plan to halt the war in Gaza, let displaced Palestinians go home and free hostages.
By Michael Crowley, Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Thomas Fuller
Israel, Ukraine and American democracy are on the line.
By Bret Stephens
Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the exhibition in New York that honors people at a music festival in Israel who were killed in the Hamas attack.
By Marc Tracy
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The Security Council can’t force anyone to adopt the plan, but its passage of a resolution backing it increases pressure on both sides to make a deal.
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Tras el rescate de cuatro rehenes por parte del ejército israelí quedan unos 120 cautivos en el enclave.
By Ephrat Livni
Displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Gaza, welcomed the cease-fire proposal hoping that it would lead to the end of the war.
By Reuters
Israel said the soldiers were killed when Hamas militants detonated explosives in a three-story building. Some wounded soldiers were in critical condition.
By Erika Solomon, Abu Bakr Bashir and Aaron Boxerman
Plus, a dispatch from the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Tracy Mumford, Pam Belluck, Edgar Sandoval, Davis Land and Jessica Metzger
When a truck carrying three of four rescued hostages broke down and came under fire, Israel says it called in an airstrike. Scores of Palestinians were killed, Gazan officials say.
By Bilal Shbair and Ronen Bergman
The Security Council endorsed a U.S.-backed plan, while Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited the Middle East to lobby for it, but Hamas and Israel were noncommittal.
By Farnaz Fassihi, Michael Crowley, Mike Ives and Thomas Fuller
Fourteen of the 15 members on the U.N. Security Council, with Russia abstaining, voted in favor of adopting a proposal calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza. Neither Israel nor Hamas has formally embraced the plan.
By UNTV via Reuters
Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York told members of the socialist group that his views on Israel aligned with theirs, and insisted that he never quit the group, despite earlier claims.
By Nicholas Fandos
The country’s leaders insist on its strength, but economists are warning of serious vulnerabilities.
By Peter Coy
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Cuando el ejército israelí liberó a cuatro rehenes, la zona aledaña recibió un intenso fuego que generó caos y pánico, según contaron testigos presenciales.
By Bilal Shbair, Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
La dimisión del miembro clave del gabinete de guerra puso de manifiesto las divisiones en la cúpula de la dirección israelí sobre el futuro de la guerra y sus secuelas.
By Adam Rasgon
The resignation exposed the divisions at the top of the Israeli leadership over the future of the war and its aftermath.
By Adam Rasgon
The rescue of four Israelis in Gaza in a ferocious assault over the weekend offered a glimpse into an ambitious intelligence operation aimed at bringing home those held by Hamas.
By Julian E. Barnes, Ronen Bergman, Eric Schmitt and Adam Entous
La operación requirió semanas de planificación y recibió el visto bueno final apenas unos minutos antes de comenzar, según funcionarios israelíes.
By Ronen Bergman and Aaron Boxerman
As the Israeli military freed four hostages, the surrounding area came under heavy fire, generating chaos and panic, eyewitnesses said.
By Bilal Shbair, Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
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