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Israel Expands Operations in Southern Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Israel Expands Operations in Southern Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis

Israeli forces expanded their military operations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, intensifying efforts to kill Hamas’s top leadership, as aid agencies said the areas to which Israel has directed Palestinians to evacuate were increasingly overcrowded and short on resources.A Hamas political delegation was headed to Cairo on Friday to discuss a deal proposed by Egypt to end the war, a plan which neither side has agreed to so far, Egyptian officials said. Israel said negotiations on the deal, which would free hostages held by Hamas, were under way.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Israeli War Cabinet Set to Consider Egyptian Proposal to End War in Gaza
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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Israeli War Cabinet Set to Consider Egyptian Proposal to End War in Gaza

Updated Dec. 25, 2023 11:26 am ETIsrael’s war cabinet plans to meet on Monday night to discuss a three-step plan put forward by Egypt for ending the war in Gaza, Israeli officials said.The Egyptian proposal, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, is the most comprehensive peace proposal to be put forward to the two parties in the 11-week-old Gaza war.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Epicenter of Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Is This Border Town
9Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Epicenter of Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Is This Border Town

Listen to article(2 minutes)Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Israeli strikes have tripled the population of Rafah, turning this small southern Gaza city on the Egyptian border into a flashpoint in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Families displaced from points north by Israel’s war against Hamas have packed schools and other shelters beyond capacity, and pushed rents for small apartments from $100 before the war up to nearly $5,000. New arrivals in Rafah have few options beyond camping in parks and empty lots, using salvaged materials for shelter or sleeping in the elements as winter sets in. The United Nations warns that Rafah could soon host half of the Gaza Strip’s roughly 2.2 million people. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8...
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When Israel’s Great Nemesis Accepted Peace
22Nov By adminNo Comments
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When Israel’s Great Nemesis Accepted Peace

With Israeli and Palestinian forces likely to resume hostilities after the four-day pause starting Thursday, the prospects for a more lasting peace in the Middle East remain dim. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to utterly defeat Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the coastal enclave and stunned the world with its killing spree on Oct. 7. For their part, Hamas officials have said they will conduct similar attacks again, as many times as is necessary to achieve the complete destruction of Israel.It is tempting to conclude that, after this, Israelis and Palestinians simply will never be able to agree on a political settlement capable of bringing an end to more than a century of conflict. Yet history is replete with examples of apparently implacable enemie...
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‘We Are Your Soldiers’ Review: An Early Leader of Arab Agitation
15Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘We Are Your Soldiers’ Review: An Early Leader of Arab Agitation

Egypt’s schoolchildren in the 1960s were taught a song in praise of the man who’d appointed himself their president in 1954, at age 36—uncommonly young for a nonroyal to lead an Arab nation. “I heard Dad say to Mom,” went the ditty, “it’s all thanks to Father Gamal.”The object of this veneration was Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian strongman who came to be the most popular ruler in modern Arab history. The thanks being belted out in classroom choruses were not for any material bounty—of which there was little in an impoverished land—but for Egypt’s pre-eminence in the Arab world. Until his death of a heart attack in 1970, Nasser waged a relentless crusade for pan-Arabism—the idea that all Arabs were one people, with Egypt as their natural leader, and that the boundaries between Arab state...
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The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan
11Nov By adminNo Comments
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The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan

Listen to article(2 minutes)The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in the backs of Toyota pickups, brandishing Kalashnikovs and dressed in the telltale sand-colored uniforms of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces militia. Over three days they killed hundreds of men and teenage boys in a Darfur refugee camp, according to witnesses, local human-rights groups and international aid agencies.The Sudanese-Arab militia worked its way systematically through the tents, shacks and mud houses of the Ardamata camp, shooting male residents. The settlement in western Darfur was home to about 30,000 non-Arab Sudanese people who had fled earlier bouts of fighting in the country’s civil war, which started nearly seven months ago.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5ed...
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Push to Free Israeli Hostages in Gaza Hindered by Mistrust, Anger, Confusion
11Nov By adminNo Comments
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Push to Free Israeli Hostages in Gaza Hindered by Mistrust, Anger, Confusion

Updated Nov. 11, 2023 12:48 am ETIn the days after Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing at least 1,200 people and kidnapping scores of others, Egyptian officials spent hours on the phone with the Islamist group’s leaders pressing a seemingly simple question: How many Israeli hostages did they hold?Hamas didn’t have an answer.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Foreigners Waiting to Leave Gaza Face Heart-Rending Decisions
6Nov By adminNo Comments
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Foreigners Waiting to Leave Gaza Face Heart-Rending Decisions

Listen to article(1 minute)CAIRO—On the wall of the border crossing between bombed-out Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai desert there is a list. The names on it have been a source of hope, despair and confusion for the hundreds of foreign families wanting to escape the Palestinian enclave under Israeli fire. When American sisters Jana and Mena Timraz appeared on the list on Thursday, they rejoiced. But their parents, their brothers and Jana’s husband, who aren’t U.S. citizens, were missing from the roster. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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