Israel

Hamas says it's willing to release the five American hostages in Gaza

8:21am March 14, 2025

Hamas, the militant group the U.S. has labeled as terrorists, says it's willing to release the one living American hostage and bodies of four others it's held in Gaza since the 2023 attacks in Israel.

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Israel targets what it says was an Islamic Jihad command center in Damascus

5:38pm March 13, 2025

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been vacant for years.

Steve Witkoff Speaks To Reporters At The White House

Mediators seek a new deal to release more than half of the hostages in Gaza

8:45am March 12, 2025

President Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is taking part in ceasefire talks in Qatar, the most serious Israel-Hamas talks since Trump took office.

This synagogue calls itself 'anti-Zionist.' Here's what that means in practice

8:03am March 09, 2025

Tzedek Chicago calls itself anti-Zionist congregation, meaning it does not support a Jewish nation-state.

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In a policy shift, U.S. and Hamas say they're in direct talks on hostages

2:32pm March 05, 2025

A Hamas official tells NPR that the United States has held direct talks with the Palestinian militant group over the release of several American-Israeli dual citizens taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel.

Protest In Tel Aviv As Israel-Hamas Ceasefire In Limbo

What went wrong? Israel's spy agency lists failures in preventing Oct. 7 attack

6:31am March 05, 2025

Israel's domestic security agency had Hamas' battle plans for the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks but didn't take them seriously. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deflected responsibility for the failure.

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Israel's culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film's Oscar a 'sad moment'

11:04am March 03, 2025

The Oscar documentary win by the movie No Other Land is garnering very different reactions in Israel and the West Bank.

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Trump wants Palestinians out of Gaza. Here are Egypt's plans to keep them there

5:00am March 03, 2025

Arab leaders will meet in Cairo to reject Palestinian displacement from Gaza. NPR looks at Egypt's reconstruction plans for Gaza that counter President Trump's ideas of expulsion.

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Israeli military cites 'fundamental misunderstanding' of Hamas ahead of Oct. 7 attack

5:30am February 28, 2025

The report is the Israeli military's first official account of mistakes that preceded the 2023 attack, which launched Israel's subsequent war against Hamas in Gaza that killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.

Hamas returns bodies of four hostages and Israel releases hundreds of Palestinians

3:45am February 27, 2025

Both sides agreed there would be no Hamas ceremonies for the hostage bodies and in exchange Israel would release the Palestinian detainees and prisoners whose freedom had been held up since Saturday.

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