World In Gaza, Families Have Huddled At Home, Hoping For A Warning Before An Israeli Strike For a week and a half, Gazans have taken cover in their stairwells and other parts of the house, eating canned foods and hoping they can run out in time — if an airstrike warning comes. Ruth Sherlock
World Timeline: Israel-Hamas Fighting Takes A Dire Toll With No End In Sight Israel and the Palestinians are again locked in bitter fighting. Here is a look at some key events in the conflict over the past decade and a half. NPR Staff The Associated Press
World Israeli Warplanes Pound Hamas Tunnels In Gaza There has been no letup in fighting as the battle between Israel and Hamas enters its 10th day, despite growing international calls for a cease-fire. Jackie Northam
World Israel Launches New Strikes As Gaza Conflict Enters Week 2 Palestinian officials say nearly 200 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent days, including many children. The death toll on the Israeli side stands at eight, including one child. Merrit Kennedy Jackie Northam
World 'An Embarrassing Time': The Challenges For Arab Nations That Made Peace With Israel "This is an embarrassing time for Gulf countries," says political scientist Bessma Momani. "Ultimately, they gave Israel a normalization deal, but didn't really extract anything for the Palestinians." Ruth Sherlock
World 20 Reported Killed In Israeli Airstrikes On Gaza After Hamas Fires Rockets At Israel The violent exchange followed intense clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in Jerusalem, prompting Jewish organizers to cancel the annual Jerusalem Day march. Daniel Estrin Bill Chappell
World Dozens Crushed To Death, Scores Injured In Stampede At Israeli Religious Festival At least 45 people were killed and some 150 injured in a crush at the gathering of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel, where tens of thousands of faithful had convened. Daniel Estrin
Health Vaccines For Data: Israel's Pfizer Deal Drives Quick Rollout — And Privacy Worries Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and agreed to share data from Israel's centralized trove of medical statistics. Privacy advocates have some misgivings. Daniel Estrin
Politics Biden Won't Reverse All Of Trump's Foreign Policy. Here's What He'll Keep President Biden's Iran policy is significantly different from that of his predecessor. But there are some things started by former President Donald Trump that Biden plans to build on. Scott Detrow
Biden Administration Restores Aid To Palestinians, Reversing Trump Policy The acting U.S. ambassador to the U.N. announced a renewed commitment to the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a resumption of U.S. contact with Palestinian leaders. Mark Katkov
