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What did Hamas aim to gain by its brazen attack on Israel? Here's what to know

The surprise attack on Israel has brought the militant group back into the spotlight. A Hamas official tells NPR the attack was meant in part to lead to the release of Palestinians in Israeli jails.

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US arranging evacuation flights for Americans who want to leave Israel as war with Hamas rages

The Biden administration is expected to announce soon that the U.S. government will begin operating evacuation flights to help Americans leave Israel as Israel prepares to escalate retaliatory action on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip

The Independent UK

Intelligence failure or not, the Israeli military was unprepared to respond to Hamas' surprise attack

As the Israeli army has stepped up its counteroffensive into the Gaza Strip, questions remain on how the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas was able to use bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to conduct the largest attack in 50 years against the most powerful military in the Middle East.

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How the Israel war, blockade affect mental health of Palestinian children

A psychiatrist and a psychologist talk to Al Jazeera about the trauma children face in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera

Hamas: what you need to know about the group that attacked Israel

The group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, crossing into the country from Gaza killing hundreds of civilians and taking dozens of hostages.

The Conversation

Israel detains, expels to West Bank hundreds of Gaza Palestinian workers

Some 600 workers from Gaza have faced threats and arrests inside Israel and were forced to go to the occupied West Bank.

Al Jazeera

Killing civilians is indefensible, whether done by Hamas or Israel

Combatants in this war have a duty not to target innocent people regardless of what they believe ‘the other side’ has done

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Israel tells the U.N. that northern Gaza needs to be evacuated

Israel's military told the United Nations that all of northern Gaza's population needs to be evacuated in 24 hours, the U.N. said. The order affects a region that is home to about 1.1 million people.

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Israeli strike destroys residential building in Gaza refugee camp, killing dozens

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza on Thursday killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens more, said Gaza health authorities. As Gazans braced for a likely ground offensive, the Israeli army said they had bombarded the besieged enclave with…

France 24

Why is Gaza out of fuel — and what now?

The enclave is under a power blackout after Israel has stopped all fuel, food and other essential supplies.

Al Jazeera

What is the BBC’s stance on labelling Hamas a terrorist organisation?

The broadcaster has faced criticisim for avoiding labelling the Palestinian militant group as terrorists in news broadcasts

Evening Standard

In Israel and Gaza, civilians are caught in the crossfire

Hamas's deadly attack on Israel and the ensuing retaliation have already resulted in over a thousand deaths on both sides of the conflict. Civilians are caught on the front line as rockets sent from Israel, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon continue to rain down.

France 24

From 1947 to 2023: Retracing the complex, tragic Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was reignited once again on October 7 after a surprise offensive launched by Hamas against Israel. In retaliation, Israel ordered air strikes and a "complete siege" of the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave. This is a new deadly episode in a conflict that has its roots…

France 24

‘Forty per cent of the people here are kids’: British doctor in Gaza hospital says system ‘will collapse very soon’

A British doctor who flew out to Palestine yesterday has described the “sheer devastation” at the biggest hospital on the Gaza strip where forty percent of the wounded are children

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Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 5

As the conflict between Israel and Palestine enters its fifth day, these are the main developments.

Evening Standard

Israel-Palestine: A timeline of the decades-long conflict as ceasefire reportedly reached with Hamas

The causes of this conflict are deep-rooted and complex, spanning at least two centuries

The Times of India

Hamas attack: What may happen if Israel launches ground assault on the Gaza Strip

Israeli troops are massing for what’s widely seen as all but inevitable: a ground invasion of Gaza.

The Independent UK

Live updates | Day 5 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war

Airstrikes have pounded neighborhoods throughout the night and into Wednesday as Israel stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas

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Israel strikes neighborhood after neighborhood in Gaza as war appears set to escalate

Residents of the Gaza Strip scrambled to find safety Wednesday as Israeli warplanes hammered neighborhood after neighborhood in the tiny coastal enclave in retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants

France 24

🔴 Live: ‘Every Hamas member is a dead man’, Netanyahu says as Israel cuts power, supplies to Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to wipe Hamas “off the face of the earth” in a late night speech Wednesday announcing an emergency unity government. In Gaza, the only power plant in the besieged enclave shut down after it ran out of fuel. The death toll on both sides…

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What is the Gaza Strip? Here's what to know

With high poverty and unemployment and severe restrictions on movement, life in the Gaza Strip was already difficult before Israel's retaliatory offensive began this week in response to Hamas attacks.

The Conversation

The Gaza Strip − why the history of the densely populated enclave is key to understanding the current conflict

The focus on conflict in the Middle East has again returned to the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s defense minister ordering a “complete siege” of the Palestinian enclave.

Al Jazeera

‘Why bomb schools?’ Gaza families have no safe space amid Israeli attacks

Residents across the Gaza Strip have sought shelter in UN-run schools. But schools too have been targeted by Israel.

Zenger

Israel-Hamas Conflict Escalates: 900 Israelis Killed, Gaza Under Siege

Hamas attack compared to Yom Kippur War; Israel's largest reserve mobilization

The Conversation

Children in Palestine and Israel continue to suffer as international law is routinely ignored

Among the hundreds already dead in the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas, very many are children. And despite the killing of children being invoked by both sides as evidence of their enemy’s brutality, the death toll will no doubt continue to rise.

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