WHO expert warns of disease risk in Gaza amidst a collapsing healthcare system
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization about the growing risk of untreated diseases in Gaza.
Middle East
Israel intensifies its offensive on Gaza with no signs of another truce
We look at the latest in the war between Hamas and Israel. The temporary ceasefire now over, deadly strikes in Gaza have resumed, and there are reports of more violence in the West Bank.
The shadowy Hamas leader behind the war against Israel
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is widely believed to have helped mastermind the unprecedented Hamas attack that changed the course of Israeli-Palestinian history.
More than 100 Gaza heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks
The nonprofit group Heritage for Peace's preliminary findings show 104 historic religious buildings, museums and archaeological sites have been destroyed or damaged.
Gaza war is deadliest conflict for journalists in over 30 years, press advocates say
More than 60 journalists and media workers have been killed so far, most of them Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Gaza's journalists have reported while also suffering personal losses.
In Dubai, Harris deals with 2 issues important to young voters: climate and Gaza
Vice President Harris gave her most extensive comments to date on the fighting in Gaza, emphatically calling on Israel to do more to protect civilians.
Israel says it has hit more than 400 targets in Gaza since end of truce with Hamas
The temporary truce that collapsed early Friday followed seven weeks of fighting in Gaza sparked by simultaneous attacks on southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.
Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, will skip Christmas festivities this year
NPR's Asma Khalid asks Palestinian Christians Munther Issac and Tamar Haddad about their efforts to convince American lawmakers to support a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
As Israel's air strikes resume, the U.S. and Qatar try to negotiate another ceasefire
Israel says it's hit more than 400 targets since the resumption of fighting in Gaza, as Qatar and the US try to negotiate another ceasefire.
How Israel's judicial system handles the estimated 7000 Palestinians in its prisons
NPR's Asma Khalid speaks to Dror Sadot of B'Tselem The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, about how Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians for years.