Photos: Documenting the war in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passes 25,000
Photos from Israel and Gaza show some of what the past week has looked like for people on the ground there as the conflict enters its fourth month.
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Palestinian death toll passes 25,000 as Israel announces the death of another hostage
Since the war started on Oct. 7, 25,105 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, while another 62,681 have been wounded, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said.
Israel's Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty post-war, rebuffing Biden
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he "will not compromise on full Israeli control" over Gaza and that "this is contrary to a Palestinian state".
Flour for Gaza to be shipped through the Israeli port in Ashdod, the White House says
Humanitarian groups had called for Israel to open the port to help alleviate the food crisis. All of Gaza's 2.2 million residents are at imminent risk of famine, the U.N. warns.
Israeli airstrike on Damascus killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, state media say
A strike on the Syrian capital destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. One of those killed was a local Hezbollah commander
Biden is being tested by politics in Israel and at home with the Gaza conflict
President Biden takes the long view on Middle East peace. But in an election year where Democrats are divided on the issue — and as Gaza casualties mount — his support for Israel could cost him.
Israel's anti-war movement includes mothers of soldiers serving in Gaza
A group of Israeli mothers, whose sons are fighting in Gaza, is calling to end the war. They hold a minority view, but draw inspiration from a successful protest by Israeli mothers in a previous war.
Israeli protesters demand Gaza cease-fire in rare anti-war march through Tel Aviv
Civil rights lawyers pushed back against a crackdown on protests, securing permission to hold a rally to stop the war in Gaza.
Jordan accuses Israel of deliberately targeting its Gaza field hospital
Jordan said its field hospital in Khan Younis was hit by shells and gunfire, injuring a doctor and a patient. Israel denied the claim and said it was engaged in a skirmish with Hamas fighters nearby.
Netanyahu says he told U.S. that he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario
The Israeli prime minister spoke just a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel would never have "genuine security" without a pathway toward Palestinian independence.