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A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Middle East has seen decades of unrest, much of it stemming from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The current Israel-Hamas war is the latest outbreak of violence that threatens lasting peace across the region and the globe. The World has compiled a timeline of key events in the conflict.
Colleges struggle to balance free speech, international politics and public safety amid Israel-Hamas conflict
As Israel-Palestinian truce holds, Gaza power plant restarts
Israeli designation of 6 NGOs as terrorist organizations 'criminalizes' civil society work, media consultant says
The politics of Ireland’s enduring support for Palestinians
Ireland is the first EU country to declare that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories amount to de facto annexation.
NATO agrees to study how climate change impacts global security threats
NATO leaders recently called climate change “one of the defining challenges of our times.”
Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire
Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire in Gaza after more than a week of fighting.
A Gaza mother struggles to protect her kids
A mother of three living in Gaza discussed with The World's host Marco Werman the trauma that her children face while living under airstrikes.
What does Pompeo's historic West Bank visit mean for US-Israel policy?
America’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo made history Thursday by becoming the first US secretary of state to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, the entirety of which Palestinians claim as a part of their future state.
Israel's Arab citizens contemplate their future under the Trump peace plan
Israel’s Arab citizens living in so-called “Triangle communities” may become citizens of Palestine under redrawn Israeli borders. But not all of them are ready to give up their Israeli citizenship.
This Palestinian running group in Jerusalem fights for the ‘right to movement’
Palestinians have for decades had their freedom of movement curtailed around Jerusalem, with measures the Israeli authorities say are necessary for security.
Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan. This Palestinian analyst says it's a 'scam.'
Trump announced the plan, billed as the "deal of the century," in Washington, DC, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday. But missing from the announcement were Palestinians — who preemptively rejected the proposal, citing pro-Israel bias. One Palestinian activist speaking prior to the plan's unveiling called it a "scam."
Jesus’ Bethlehem birthplace gets a makeover. But will it boost tourism?
Palestinian officials are hoping that the nearly-completed restoration will boost tourism at a time when the West Bank remains under Israeli occupation, plagued by a political stalemate and hobbled by high unemployment.
Detention centers are ‘worthy of your disgust’ in their own right, says Jewish Latina activist
The term "concentration camps" has been used to describe migrant detention centers on the southern border under the Trump administration — and not without controversy. But the term has particularly affected some Latinx Jews.