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On Oct. 7 a surprise attack by militant group Hamas left around 1,200 Israelis dead, and hundreds were taken hostage. Israel responded with air strikes and a ground campaign in the Gaza Strip that has killed tens of thousands.

Hamas says it received Israel’s response to its ceasefire proposal
Palestinians carry belongings as people fleeing conflict leave their homes, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on April 12, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Authorities in the Hamas-ruled coastal Palestinian territory on April 12 reported dozens of new air strikes in Gaza's central region. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
United Nations’ investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
FILE - Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
Columbia protesters say they’re at an impasse with administrators and will continue anti-war camp
Students and other protesters are in a tent camp on the campus of Columbia University in New York on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel's war in Gaza. It's inspired by a demonstration at Columbia University last week that resulted in dozens of arrests. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Egypt sends delegation to Israel in latest effort to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
Students cry during the funeral of their classmate who was killed Tuesday by an Israeli strike on a house in the town of Hanin, at the backyard of Hezbollah-run Al-Mahdi school, in Tiri village, south Lebanon, Thursday April 25, 2024. Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces have been exchanging fire since a day after the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Pro-Palestinian protesters dig in at Columbia University, other U.S. campuses
University of Texas Police detain a man at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Austin, Texas, U.S., April 24, 2024. Jay Janner/Austin Statesman/USA Today Network via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY REFILE - CORRECTING FROM "TEXAS STATE TROOPERS" TO "UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS POLICE".

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Hamas says it received Israel’s response to its ceasefire proposal
Palestinians carry belongings as people fleeing conflict leave their homes, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on April 12, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Authorities in the Hamas-ruled coastal Palestinian territory on April 12 reported dozens of new air strikes in Gaza's central region. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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United Nations’ investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
FILE - Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
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Premature baby girl rescued from dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after five days in incubator
A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sunday, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)
opinion
The report on UNRWA’s neutrality ignores the Hamas elephant in the room
Konrad Yakabuski
world
Columbia protesters say they’re at an impasse with administrators and will continue anti-war camp
Students and other protesters are in a tent camp on the campus of Columbia University in New York on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel's war in Gaza. It's inspired by a demonstration at Columbia University last week that resulted in dozens of arrests. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
world
Egypt sends delegation to Israel in latest effort to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
Students cry during the funeral of their classmate who was killed Tuesday by an Israeli strike on a house in the town of Hanin, at the backyard of Hezbollah-run Al-Mahdi school, in Tiri village, south Lebanon, Thursday April 25, 2024. Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces have been exchanging fire since a day after the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Chef Jose Andres mourns World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza at Washington Cathedral
FILE PHOTO: World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder Chef Jose Andres reacts while participating remotely in an online Reuters interview from Eastern Shore, Maryland, U.S., in this still image taken from video on April 3, 2024. REUTERS/Reuters TV/File Photo
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Israeli protesters hold up convoys transporting aid to Palestinians in Gaza
Protesters gather overnight in Tel Arad to block aid trucks from travelling to Jordan. April 24, 2024 (Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail)
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Palestinian authorities seek probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals
Medics walk in front of the emergency ward at Nasser Hospital where bodies were discovered, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Hamas official says group would lay down arms if independent Palestinian state established
Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking official with the Palestinian militant group, who has represented it in negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal, speaks during an interview for The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
world
Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza’s Rafah ahead of threatened invasion
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Palestinians mourn by the bodies of relatives killed in Israeli bombardment, at the al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 25, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
u.s. politics
Pro-Palestinian protesters dig in at Columbia University, other U.S. campuses
University of Texas Police detain a man at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Austin, Texas, U.S., April 24, 2024. Jay Janner/Austin Statesman/USA Today Network via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY REFILE - CORRECTING FROM "TEXAS STATE TROOPERS" TO "UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS POLICE".
world
Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted American and Israeli ships
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)
world
Germany signals it will resume funding UN agency for Palestinian refugees
FILE PHOTO: Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
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Israel says Rafah assault looms; Gaza air strikes end weeks of relative calm
Palestinians walk past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip, April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
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Police tangle with students in Texas and California as wave of campus protest against Gaza war grows
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 24: Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the West Lawn of Columbia University on April 24, 2024 in New York City. School administrators and pro-Palestinian student protesters made progress on negations after the school set a midnight deadline for students to disband the encampment. The students agreed to remove many of the tents erected on the lawn, ensured that non-students would leave, and bared discriminatory or harassing language among the protesters. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
world
Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban bills after months of wrangling with Republicans
President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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UN rights chief says he’s ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals
FILE PHOTO: Volker Turk United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights addresses the Human Rights Council on his report on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, February 29, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
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Postsecondary students across the U.S. are upping their protests against war in Gaza
Signs are seen posted around the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at Columbia University, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024, REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
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Israel intensifies strikes across Gaza, orders new evacuations in north
People rush to landing humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel marks fraught Passover Seder as hostages remain in Gaza, and Rafah offensive looms
People attend a seder in support of hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Tel Aviv, Israel April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
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Review of UN agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel didn’t express concern about staff
FILE PHOTO: A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, Egypt, November 27, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
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Antony Blinken denies U.S. double standard over alleged Israeli human-rights abuses
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the start of a briefing on the recently released 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale, Columbia cancels in-person classes
Several hundred students and pro-Palestinian supporters rally at the intersection in front of Woolsey Hall on the campus of Yale University, in New Haven, Conn. April 22, 2024. (Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP)
books
PEN America calls off awards ceremony amid criticism over its response to Israel-Hamas war
FILE - A logo is displayed at the PEN America Literary Awards, March 2, 2023, in New York. Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America on Monday, April 22, 2024, called off its annual awards ceremony. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
politics
Ottawa police investigating chant on Parliament Hill glorifying Hamas Oct. 7 attack
The prime minister is condemning a protest this weekend on Parliament Hill where a demonstrator was heard supporting the brutal Hamas attack on Israel last fall. A damaged clock outside a home that came under attack during a massive Hamas invasion into Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Francisco Seco
world
Israel’s military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Hamas attack on Oct. 7
FILE PHOTO: A view of a junction shows the aftermath of a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in the Sderot area, southern Israel October 7, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo
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Iran’s supreme leader tacitly acknowledges that Tehran hit little in its attack on Israel
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated on Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the killings of Iranian generals in Syria. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
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Israeli air strike in southern Gaza city of Rafah kills at least 9 Palestinians, including 6 children
A Palestinian child salvages belongings from the rubble of a house hit by overnight Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 20, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
analysis
Israel and Iran’s shadow war breaks out into the open
People in Tehran on Thursday, April 18, 2024, walk past a mural depicting Iranian missiles. Israel struck Iran early Friday, April 19, 2024, according to officials from both countries, in what appeared to be its first military response to the Iranian attack on Israel last weekend. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
opinion
Jewish students are being forced to weigh a new factor when choosing universities
Marsha Lederman
world
U.S. and Britain announce new sanctions against Iran for attack on Israel
The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at UN headquarters in New York City on April 18, 2024. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiraling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran's attack on Israel could devolve into a "full-scale regional conflict." (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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West Bank’s Palestinian farmers pushed from agricultural land as Israeli settlements expand
Samhan Mohammad Shreiteh is photographed at his home in Al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya on April 13, 2024. Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail
world
U.S. stops UN from recognizing a Palestinian state through membership
A general view shows a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
canada
Motion to override keffiyeh ban fails in Ontario legislature
<p>An NDP motion to allow keffiyehs to be worn in the Ontario legislature has failed as it did not receive unanimous consent after at least one member voted against it. Palestinian children hold up a large kaffiyeh, a traditional Arab headdress, as they participate in a march to commemorate &nbsp;"Nakba", which is Arabic for catastrophe, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, May 17, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Tara Todras-Whitehill</p>
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U.S. and Israel hold virtual meeting on Rafah
Palestinian children check a building destroyed by Israeli bombardment the previous night in Rafah the southern Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Reuters’ Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award
FILE PHOTO: Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem was in Khan Younis on Oct. 17 at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were going to search for missing relatives. He saw Inas squatting on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and tightly embracing Saly's body. "I lost my conscience when I saw the girl, I took her in my arms," Inas said. "The doctor asked me to let go... but I told them to leave her with me." Mohammed Salem won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
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In Gaza, Palestinians with treatable injuries face amputations as medical supplies run out
world
Palestinians pay small fortunes to buy their way out of Gaza
FILE PHOTO: A man pushes a trolley with luggage as he crosses from Gaza to Egypt, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, February 1, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo