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Byline: Ellen Nakashima and Louisa Loveluck U.S. intelligence officials offered fresh details this week to bolster their November assessment that Hamas militants used the al-Shifa hospital complex in the northern [...]

A chat with Will Shortz, who has been editing The Times's puzzle for 30 years. Will Shortz celebrated his 30th anniversary as The Times's Crossword editor this week. He is [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen and Miriam Berger TEL AVIV - Israel said it will be withdrawing some troops from Gaza this week, an indication it may be changing its tactics on [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen, Itay Stern and Heidi Levine SHURA MILITARY BASE, Israel - Mordechai Porat leaves his home each morning in a crisp black suit and hat. It isn't until [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger, William Booth, Hazem Balousha and Sarah Dadouch JERUSALEM - The expansion of Israel's ground war across the Gaza Strip is sending new waves of displaced people into [...]

Byline: William Booth, Itay Stern and Hazem Balousha JERUSALEM - In a rubble-strewn alley near the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, Israeli soldiers say they found themselves being lured [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen and Heidi Levine BEERI, Israel - Ziv hoisted another large cardboard box, navigating around his dead mother's wilting garden, before adding it to the growing pile inside [...]

Byline: Claire Parker and Michael Birnbaum CAIRO - Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Egypt has held firm that it will not accept Palestinian refugees. But as Israel [...]

In Israel and Gaza, war is being fought as wars have long been: with bodies and steel, on land and from the sky. Around the rest of the world, though, [...]

The military said the mistaken killing of the three men, who had been shirtless, was a violation of its rules of engagement. The Israeli military on Saturday said three hostages [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris and Ruby Mellen JERUSALEM - The three hostages who were accidentally shot dead by Israeli forces inside Gaza were holding a makeshift white flag when they were [...]

The ad campaign, which was called ''The Jacket,'' reminded some users of Palestinians in the rubble of Gaza. Zara said it shot the campaign before the war began. Zara, the [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix, Hazem Balousha and Miriam Berger JERUSALEM - Israel said it had tightened its grip on Hamas strongholds across Gaza with heavy airstrikes and ground fighting overnight Sunday, [...]

It has gained prestige among Palestinians while poisoning Israel's relations with the Arab world and putting the Palestinian issue back on the Western agenda. Much of Gaza lies in ruins, [...]

The men came alone that morning, leaving families and sheep behind, and climbed the hill to see what was left of their village. On the sun-bleached crest, they found a [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip has reduced entire neighborhoods to dust. The resumption of fighting and intensified airstrikes on southern Gaza after a week-long pause could [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix, Miriam Berger, Hazem Balousha and Ruby Mellen JERUSALEM - Fighting in South Gaza intensified Wednesday as Israeli troops entered Khan Younis, once a haven for Palestinians fleeing [...]

Israel has accused Hamas of committing abuses against large numbers of women. Hamas denies the allegations. From the first days after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Israel has accused [...]

Some people in the West Bank, where frustration with the Palestinian Authority has been simmering for years, believe Hamas and other armed groups are the only ones they can trust [...]

Byline: John Hudson and Steve Hendrix Israel should expand the scope of hostage negotiations beyond the release of women and children to also include men and military personnel, the families [...]

Follow live news updates on the Israel-Hamas war . They walked for hours, raising their hands when they encountered Israeli troops with guns trained on them to display their I.D. [...]

Byline: Chris Kenning, USA TODAY Emily Callahan, an American nurse with Doctors Without Borders, was glued to her phone - trying to reach the Palestinian colleagues she had worked with [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, Kim Hjelmgaard, and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - For five weeks, delivery trucks crossing into the Gaza Strip from Egypt have carried food, water and other [...]

Byline: Hazem Balousha, Loveday Morris and Ruby Mellen AMMAN, Jordan - As the humanitarian pause in combat in Gaza entered its fifth day Tuesday and more Israeli hostages were exchanged [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix JERUSALEM - Ruti Munder spent seven weeks as a captive in Gaza grieving for her husband of 55 years, whom she last saw amid the chaos of [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix JERUSALEM - Ruti Munder spent seven weeks as a captive in Gaza grieving for her husband of 55 years, whom she last saw amid the chaos of [...]

Byline: Hazem Balousha and Loveday Morris AMMAN, Jordan - As the humanitarian pause in combat in Gaza entered its fifth day Tuesday and more Israeli hostages were exchanged for Palestinian [...]

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Byline: William Booth EIN BOKEK, Israel - The resort on the Dead Sea looks like what it is: A nice, bright white, banal holiday hotel, with a swimming pool and [...]

My columns from Israel and the West Bank over the past few weeks have been depressing, reflecting my fear that we're on a bloody, downward spiral that will make everything [...]

Byline: Claire Parker and Heba Farouk Mahfouz RAFAH, Egypt - Gaza's hospital system is collapsing in the face of continuous Israeli bombardment, yet there is no letup in the wounded [...]

I've moved back to the United States twice since my birth. Once as a child, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Then again for graduate school. I'd had the privilege [...]

There is a reason so many Jews cannot stop shaking right now. The concept of intergenerational trauma doesn't begin to describe the dark place into which this month's attack plunged [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Claire Parker After weeks of declining to back growing international calls for 'humanitarian pauses' in Israeli airstrikes to allow a steady flow of aid to enter [...]

Byline: Kevin Sieff TEL AVIV - Ayelet Samerano, whose 21-year-old son Jonathan was abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, watched on television Friday night as Israel's ground and aerial attacks [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Claire Parker After weeks of declining to back growing international calls for 'humanitarian pauses' in Israeli airstrikes to allow a steady flow of aid to enter [...]

Byline: William Booth, Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb JERUSALEM - Cutting off an enemy's communication lines is an ancient tool of war. But the near complete communications blackout in Gaza, [...]

Nearly a day after Israel embarked upon its most extensive ground operation in the Gaza Strip in three weeks, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Saturday that his military has [...]

Byline: Cate Brown, Sarah Dadouch, Ruby Mellen and Joe Snell Israeli bombardments have decimated large parts of Gaza, displacing around a million people and leaving many with impossible decisions: to [...]

Byline: Jennifer Jolly, Special to USA TODAY Graphic images from the war in Gaza are racking up hundreds of millions of views across social media channels, prompting warnings from parent [...]