Middle East

Implications of Israel's incursion into the occupied West Bank on peace prospects

5:05am July 06, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Khaled Elgindy of the Middle East Institute about this week's Israeli incursion in the West Bank, and whether there are any chances for peace.

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The view from Jenin refugee camp in West Bank after Israel's withdrawal

6:35pm July 05, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

A look at the aftermath of Israel's offensive in a Palestinian refugee camp finds vast damage and stunned, hopeless residents.

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Residents of the Jenin refugee camp fled their homes as the Israeli military pressed ahead with an operation in the area, in Jenin, West Bank, Tuesday. Palestinian health officials put the Palestinian death toll from the two-day raid at 10. The Israeli military said Israel launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin.

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Israel says it's ending its largest West Bank offensive in years

6:47pm July 04, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

As much as a quarter of the Palestinian population of the crowded Jenin refugee camp has fled an Israeli military offensive, the United Nations says.

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An invasive pest is threatening Lebanon's valuable pine nut industry

4:59pm July 04, 2023

by Ruth Sherlock

Workers in Lebanon climb high up pine trees for a valuable export: pine nuts. But the important source of revenue is being choked off by an invasive pest.

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Israel's operation against militants in a refugee camp is in its 2nd day

7:17am July 04, 2023

At least eight Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank. What does Israel hope to accomplish as its military targets a refugee camp?

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Morning news brief

5:09am July 04, 2023

Israel presses its offensive in the occupied West Bank. Russia says it repelled a drone attack on a Moscow airport. A Chicago suburb remembers victims of a mass shooting at a July Fourth parade.

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Israeli forces attack militants in a crowded Palestinian refugee camp

6:35pm July 03, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

In the largest operation of its kind in the West Bank in 15 years, Israel launched an attack on militants in the crowded Jenin refugee camp — leaving several Palestinians dead and dozens wounded.

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Mahsa Amini peers out from a mural by Rodrigo Pradel that covers an entire building side in a Washington, D.C. alley. Amini's death in police custody in Iran last year led to protests and a revolutionary movement.

'It's not over yet': Artists work to keep Iran's protests in view

2:07pm July 03, 2023

by Majd Al-Waheidi

Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of Iranian police sparked protests and a global movement on women's issues. Artists in the U.S. are working to keep it all from fading from view.

Israel stages a large-scale raid on a Palestinian camp in the West Bank

10:11am July 03, 2023

Israel's military says it's launched an extensive counterterrorism effort in the occupied West Bank that's killed at least seven militants in the latest escalation of violence there.

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Smoke rises during an Israeli military raid of the militant stronghold of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Monday, July 3, 2023.

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Israel stages a deadly large-scale raid on Palestinian Jenin camp in the West Bank

6:03am July 03, 2023

by The Associated Press

Israeli media said the military also conducted airstrikes, reviving a tactic it had largely halted during the past two decades.