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For Palestinians, a grim reality in Gaza obscures the future

Israel-Hamas war

The Biden administration says it’s looking for leadership from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank after the war in Gaza is over. A new technocratic government has been sworn in, but as war continues to rage in Gaza, Palestinians are not hopeful. The World’s Matthew Bell speaks with people in the West Bank city of Ramallah about their vision for the future. 

Photo showing tanks and jeeps rolling through a desert

How the Hamas assault echoes the 1973 Arab-Israeli war

Israel-Hamas war
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Trump cuts WHO funding; online threats increase amid pandemic; deportations could be spreading COVID-19

Top of The World
The separation wall, Baka al-Gharbiyeh

Israel’s Arab citizens contemplate their future under the Trump peace plan

Borders
The Dome of the Rock is shown in the distance in a wide framed photograph of Jerusalem's Old City.

Jerusalem’s ‘green’ cable car plan is challenged in Israel’s top court

Borders
People in athletic clothes warm up together on a sidewalk.

This Palestinian running group in Jerusalem fights for the ‘right to movement’ 

Sports

Palestinians have for decades had their freedom of movement curtailed around Jerusalem, with measures the Israeli authorities say are necessary for security.

Palestinians watch a television broadcasting the announcement of Middle East peace plan by US President Donald Trump, in the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 28, 2020.

Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan. This Palestinian analyst says it’s a ‘scam.’

Conflict & Justice

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.”

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner smiles while listening to US President Donald Trump talk as the president meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2019.

Jared Kushner’s peace plan that nobody loves

Foreign policy

Jared Kushner has been working on a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians — a “deal of the century” is how President Donald Trump has referred to it. Almost no one is impressed. And it’s not clear if the plan will even see the light of day.

A man sits looking at a building in ruins.

Israel-Palestinian truce takes hold as Gazans prepare for holy month

Conflict & Justice

A truce to end a surge of deadly violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel took hold Monday, just as Gazans were preparing to begin the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Gaza boy pushing wheelchair water

Gaza’s water crisis is ‘a ticking time bomb’

Conflict & Justice

Humanitarian organizations fear the water crisis in Gaza is so acute, it may become uninhabitable by the year 2020.