Middle East

A Palestinian baby girl, saved from the womb of her mother Sabreen Al-Sakani, who was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shukri Jouda and her daughter Malak, lies in an incubator at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21.

World News

A baby girl born orphaned and premature after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died

6:48pm April 26, 2024

The newborn died after five days in an incubator. Her family was killed in an air strike. UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded.

Amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Rafah, in southern Gaza, a woman and a girl search for items on April 24, following reported Israeli airstrikes overnight.

World News

What to know about a possible Israeli military offensive in Rafah

5:17pm April 26, 2024

In Gaza's southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought shelter and where aid groups have centralized operations, worries have grown over a possible Israeli military operation.

The U.S. hasn't stopped aid for Israeli troops accused of human rights violations

5:01pm April 26, 2024

by Michele Kelemen

The State Department has found that some Israeli units were responsible for gross violations of human rights, but so far has stopped short of restricting U.S. aid to them.

Israel prepares for Rafah offensive as U.S. plans to build new Gaza port

4:17pm April 26, 2024

Aid groups draw up contingency plans as Israel plans assault on Rafah, where most people in Gaza are displaced. Meanwhile, the U.S. is building a pier to deliver aid.

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Education

University protesters want their schools to divest from Israel over its war in Gaza

7:27am April 26, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Chris Marsicano of Davidson College in North Carolina about how higher education institutions might go about divesting from Israeli interests, as demanded by protesters.

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Politics & Government

Morning news brief

5:10am April 26, 2024

Student protests against Israel's war in Gaza intensify. The Supreme Court debated former President Trump's immunity claim. New York's highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein's criminal conviction.

Education

Do Columbia's pro-Palestinian protests resemble the ones against the Vietnam war?

5:10am April 26, 2024

A college professor who protested the Vietnam War in 1968 compares her experiences with the pro-Palestinian protests currently happening at Columbia University.

World Central Kitchen Founder José Andrés speaks Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral during an interfaith memorial service for the seven workers from the group who were killed in Gaza.

José Andrés mourns slain World Central Kitchen workers in National Cathedral service

2:15pm April 25, 2024

by Bill Chappell

"They risked everything to feed people they did not know," the chef and founder of the humanitarian group said of the seven aid workers who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza.

A poster depicting Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is displayed in Re'im, southern Israel at the Gaza border in February 2024 at a memorial site for the Nova music festival site where he was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

World News

An American hostage is seen alive for the first time since Oct. 7 in a Hamas video

10:40am April 25, 2024

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who turned 24 last month while in captivity, has spent more than 200 days in captivity. His left arm was partially blown off by a grenade during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7.

Politics & Government

Pro-Palestinian rallies spread across college campuses. Is it an issue for Biden?

7:21am April 25, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Margie Omero of the Democratic polling firm GBAO about whether Gaza solidarity protests on U.S. college campuses pose a political problem for President Biden.

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