Arab World
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How a strip of land in Gaza that borders Egypt has become an obstacle to a ceasefire
A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as…
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Rare death of UN worker as Israel pursues West Bank operation
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday one of its employees was killed during an Israeli operation in the…
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Pope Francis decries deaths of Gaza children in Israeli bombings
Pope Francis on Friday decried the deaths of Palestinian children in Israeli military strikes in Gaza, calling bombings of schools,…
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Israeli police arrest 17-year-old over deadly car blast
Israeli police said on Friday they had arrested a 17-year-old in connection with a vehicle explosion in the central city…
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Biden aide Hochstein going to Israel to talk Lebanon, Hezbollah
A senior White House official is going to Israel in the coming days as the US pushes to prevent a bigger…
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Israeli military says it acted against targets in Syria
The Israeli military said Friday that over the source of the week it had acted in Syria against targets, just…
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European, Muslim countries meet in Spain eyeing schedule for Palestinian statehood
Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war,…
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Raided West Bank city holds funerals after Israeli army withdraws
The families of Palestinians killed in an airstrike in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas held funerals on Friday…
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Saudi surgeon performs world’s first robotic heart transplant on teen
A Saudi surgeon has performed the world’s first robotic heart transplant on a teenager in the Kingdom. The two-and-a-half-hour surgery, led by…
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Remembering Aysenur, an activist for Palestine killed by an Israeli soldier
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s parents want her to be buried in Didim, Turkey, where the young Turkish-American woman was born. The…
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