Tag: Gaza
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In Gaza, children who survive Israel’s assault face a lifetime of trauma
Osama Muhammad Abu Mustafa was convinced he would become an international soccer superstar. Playing on a local team at the municipal stadium in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, he envisioned a future “like Ronaldo.” He was 13. Even in the midst of war, he worked hard at fulfilling his dream. He was practicing soccer with his…
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IDF strikes Gaza and Lebanon on Oct. 7 anniversary
Friends, family members and other loved ones gathered this morning at the site of the Nova music festival in Re’im, in Israel’s Negev region, where Hamas militants killed an estimated 364 people as they stormed into Israel on this day a year ago. The festival grounds had some of the usual accoutrements, including stacks of loudspeakers and…
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Beirut faces heavy bombardment; Israel launches major offensive in northern Gaza
Share Morning after a sleepless night in Lebanon Reporting from Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon The headlines this morning in Lebanon told us what had kept us up all night: “One of the toughest nights on Dahiya.” For people outside Beirut; you wake up in the middle of night and you are no longer able to sleep.…
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Israel-Hamas war in Gaza the deadliest on record for journalists who describe killings, attacks and arrests
JERUSALEM — Almost 12 months of unbridled war, death, destruction and suffering in Gaza have proved the deadliest conflict on record for journalists. One year in, NBC News has spoken to 21 media professionals and organizations in the region who described killings, attacks and arrests by Israeli forces. As of Aug. 31, 116 journalists had…
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Netanyahu lashes out at U.N. and defends Israel’s actions in Gaza and Lebanon
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiantly faced an international community from which he has become deeply isolated amid international condemnation of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip and the military’s fresh escalations in Lebanon. Netanyahu opened his speech before the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York on Friday by saying he had not planned…
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Lebanese fear a return to the 2006 war with Israel, or worse — a situation like Gaza
“This is already a war.” For many in Lebanon, warnings from the United States that further escalation between Israel and Hezbollah could lead to all-out conflict have fallen flat. To Elias Faouz, it feels like that moment has already passed. “It has been going on for a year now,” said Faouz, 44, an architect in…
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Muslim group endorses Harris despite opposition to her Gaza policy
One of the nation’s largest Muslim political groups endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday despite fierce opposition to her Middle East policy, saying that stopping former President Donald Trump is paramount. “We feel it’s our obligation to speak truthfully to our communities as they grapple with perhaps the most difficult electoral choice they’ve ever…
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Israel sends unidentified bodies to Gaza as Palestinian officials demand answers
CAIRO — Israel returned the bodies on Wednesday of 88 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which the territory’s health ministry refused to bury before Israel discloses details about who they are and where it killed them. The bodies were brought into Gaza in a container loaded on a truck through…
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Who are the American hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza?
Nearly a year since Hamas and other militant groups kidnapped at least 251 people from Israel into Gaza, a cease-fire deal most likely to get them out alive and end the soaring death toll among Palestinians has remained elusive. Last month’s recovery of six hostages who were killed by their captors shortly before they were…
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Hezbollah commanders among 37 killed in Beirut strike; Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 22, officials say
And a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the region was on the brink of war. Calling Israel’s airstrike “another major crime,” Mohsen Rezaee raised the prospect of widening conflict, saying “it is possible that after Lebanon, they may extend their crimes toward Iraq, Syria, or, with an even bigger mistake,…