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☆ Cease-Fire Will Begin Friday Morning, Qatar Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Hiba Yazbek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

A temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was expected to take effect on Friday. A deal between Israel and Hamas for a temporary cease-fire is expected to go into effect on Friday. Here is a closer look at the agreement, mediated in part by Qatar, and how it is expected to play out. Who are the Palestinian prisoners? Some, but perhaps not all, of them are expected to be among the hostages released in the coming days.

Persons: Khan Younis, —, Israel, Majed al, Ansari Organizations: Hamas, International Committee, West Bank, White Locations: Gaza, Israel, Qatar, a.m

☆ Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Rescuers use ‘pause-and-go’ drilling approach as efforts hit one-week mark
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Akanksha Sharma | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Rescue efforts in India have stretched into a seventh day as emergency response teams race to retrieve 40 construction workers trapped underground since Sunday. The workers became stranded when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the northern state of Uttarakhand. Rescue teams had been drilling non-stop to reach the stranded workers since acquiring a high-powered drilling machine on Thursday, but given the fragile mountain terrain, there were concerns of more debris falling and further complicating the rescue efforts. Rescuers had drilled around one-third of the way to the trapped workers on November 17. Reuters reported Saturday that the initial drilling machine broke on Friday and needed to be replaced.

Persons: “, Manish Khalkho, Khalkho, Pushkar Singh Dhami, Narendra Modi Organizations: CNN, Rescue, National Highways, Infrastructure Development Corporation, AFP, Reuters Locations: India, Uttarakhand, Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Suella Braverman, who was fired from her post as Britain’s home secretary on Monday, had long been a divisive figure at the heart of the governing Conservative Party whose provocative rhetoric won her support on the hard right while alienating more moderate colleagues. The police said that around 145 people were arrested on Saturday, most of whom were counterprotesters, and that nine officers had been injured. In the piece, Ms. Braverman accused the police of a “double standard” in the way they handled protests. Ms. Braverman had made it clear that she wanted the march on Saturday to be banned in part because it coincided with Armistice Day. The article by Ms. Braverman, published a few hours later, appeared to undermine his stance.

Persons: Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak, Braverman, Downing, Sadiq Khan, ”, Sunak Organizations: Conservative Party, Labour Locations: Times, London, Britain, Gaza, Northern Ireland

☆ News outlets deny prior knowledge of Hamas attack after Israeli government demands answers over misleading report
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“The first pictures AP received from any freelancer show they were taken more than an hour after the attacks began. In a statement, CNN said Eslaiah was not working for the network on the day of the attack. “We had no prior knowledge of the October 7th attacks,” a CNN spokesperson said. A member of Israel’s war cabinet, Benny Gantz, also used the report to question whether journalists had prior knowledge of the attack. The Committee to Protect Journalists denounced the Israeli government’s rhetoric, warning it could put media workers in harm’s way.

Persons: Hassan Eslaiah, ” Lauren Easton, “, ”, ” Easton, Eslaiah, “ Hassan Eslaiah, Israel, Yousef Massoud, Yousef, photojournalists, HonestReporting, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Kaiser Organizations: CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, Israel, AP, ” Reuters, Hamas, “ Reuters, The Times, Government Press, Journalists, Protect Journalists Locations: Gaza, ”, Israel

☆ Israel Accuses Freelance Photographers of Advance Knowledge of Oct. 7 Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Mark Landler | More About Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

“It is reckless to make those allegations, putting our journalists on the ground in Israel and Gaza at risk,” the statement said. The furor over the Gaza photographers is part of a broader information war that has raged alongside the actual war. But it said in a statement that it was no longer working with Mr. Eslaiah, who filed the earliest and most extensive photos of the attack. There were other red flags about Mr. Eslaiah. He said he had no advance knowledge of the attack and had no links to Hamas, despite the photo with Mr. Sinwar.

Persons: ”, “, Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Masoud, Masoud’s, photojournalists, Khan Younis, Eslaiah, Yahya Sinwar, Amit Segal, Sinwar, Israel, Soliman, Adolf Hitler, Hijjy, Iyad Abuheweila Organizations: The New York Times, Israel, The Associated Press, Reuters, Times, The Times, The, Associated Press, Ahli Arab Hospital, BBC, CNN, New York Times, Israel Defense Forces, Facebook Locations: Israel, Gaza, Kibbutz Kfar Azza, Ahli, Gaza City, Egypt, Israeli, Al, Cairo

☆ Blinken Visits Iraq in Bid to Prevent Gaza Spillover
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

Washington wants to prevent a wider regional conflict and has stepped up diplomacy with regional countries whose populations have been angered by Israel's assault on Gaza. Blinken landed at Baghdad’s international airport, donned a ballistic vest and traveled by Black Hawk helicopter to the Green Zone, a remnant of the U.S. occupation of Iraq after its 2003 invasion. At the U.S. ambassador’s residence he was briefed on threats to U.S. facilities, before heading to the prime minister’s office. Iran-backed group Kataib Hezbollah issued a warning on Saturday night that the expected Blinken visit would be met with "an unprecedented escalation." Iraqi armed groups aligned with Iran have threatened to target U.S. interests with missiles and drones if Washington intervened to support Israel against Hamas in Gaza.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Blinken, Mohammed al, Sudani, Asad, Hezbollah's, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Simon Lewis, Hugh Lawson, Conor Humphries Organizations: West Bank, U.S, Iraqi, Baghdad’s, Black, Green Locations: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Israel, Baghdad, . Washington, Gaza, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Gaza . Iraqi, Ain, Harir, Iraqi, Erbil, Lebanon, U.S

☆ Blinken visits Iraq in bid to prevent Gaza spillover
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Persons: Antony Blinken, Mohammed Shia, Al Sudani, Blinken, Mohammed al, Sudani, Asad, Hezbollah's, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Simon Lewis, Hugh Lawson, Conor Humphries Organizations: Hamas, West Bank, U.S, Iraqi, Baghdad’s, Black, Green, Thomson Locations: Baghdad, Israel, Palestinian, Iraq, BAGHDAD, . Washington, Gaza, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Gaza . Iraqi, Ain, Harir, Iraqi, Erbil, Lebanon, U.S

☆ In Israel and Gaza, Losing Sight of a Shared Humanity - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Israel’s invasion of Gaza is destroying tunnels, ammunition dumps and Hamas fighters, yes. But I’m afraid it’s also helping to pulverize the recognition of shared humanity that in the long run allows people to live beside one another in peace. I pressed her, and she insisted it was fine even to kill a 5-year-old Israeli child, because “they are all Jews and Zionists.”That conversation pretty much broke my heart. “Extremists need each other, support each other,” Eyad al-Sarraj, a Gaza psychiatrist who died in 2013, once lamented to me. He complained that Israel’s blockade of Gaza since 2007 had turned Hamas fanatics into popular heroes.

Persons: it’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ” Netanyahu wasn’t, Eyad Organizations: Islamic Locations: Gaza, United States, Israel, East Jerusalem, Palestinian

☆ Dagestan riot: Anti-Jewish protest in Russia’s Dagestan shows risks of Putin’s balancing act on Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Threats to exterminate the Jews are the result of the work of Russian state propaganda, which for decades cultivated feelings of hatred towards other peoples among Russians,” he noted. Kadyrov has also provided footsoldiers for Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Gaza war adds one more match to the fire. Additionally, Russia’s war in Ukraine has impacted Dagestan heavily, with significant casualties. But an anti-Jewish riot in the southern region of Dagestan shows how quickly that model can backfire, particularly for those trapped inside the echo of Russian state propaganda.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, –, Matthew Miller, Israel, ”, Putin, ” Putin, “, Bashar al, Assad, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Strategic Communications John Kirby, “ we’ve, ” Kirby, Volodymyr Zelensky, Oleh Nikolenko, Ramzan Kadyrov, – Kadyrov, Kadyrov, Harold Chambers, Riddle, Yevgenia Albats Organizations: CNN, multiconfessional, Ukraine –, Kremlin, Red Wings Airlines, Tel Aviv –, Jewish, Authorities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamas, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sunday, Saudi, Israeli, National Security, Strategic Communications, ” Observers, Criminal Court, ICC, Russian National Guard, AFP, Getty, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Global Locations: Russia, Dagestan, Makhachkala Uytash, Ukraine, Gaza, Tel Aviv, ”, Russian, Makhachkala, Palestine, Beijing, China, Israel, Jerusalem, Moscow, Iran, United States, Chechnya, Chechen, Russia’s, Kremlin, East

☆ Trains collide in India, killing at least 10, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Vedika Sud | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least 10 people are dead and 27 others have been injured after two trains collided in southeast India Sunday, Reuters reports. The collision derailed two coaches carrying more than 90 people on the stationary train, the official told Reuters. Sunday’s collision comes just four months after a separate train accident in Odisha, where three trains collided, leaving 275 people dead and more than 1,000 injured. Rescue operations are underway at the accident site, and all of the injured have been moved to hospitals, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on X. “The Prime Minister extends condolences to the bereaved families and prays that the injured recover soon.”

Persons: “, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Narendra Modi, ” Organizations: CNN, Reuters, Railway, Minister’s, Indian, Sunday, “ Locations: India, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Rayagada, Odisha, Vizianagaram, country’s

A crowds gathers at the Makhachkala Uytash Airport (MCX) in Dagestan, southern Russia, on October 29. Crowds stormed the runway at Makhachkala Uytash Airport (MCX) on October 29. “Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alex Ben Zvi is working with the Russian authorities to secure the well-being of Jews and Israelis at the site,” it added. “The United States vigorously condemns the antisemitic protests in Dagestan, Russia,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson wrote on social media. We call on Russian authorities to ensure their safety,” Lipstadt said.

Persons: ”, Israel, Russia Alex Ben Zvi, Adrienne Watson, Amb, Deborah E, Lipstadt, ” Lipstadt, Sergey Melikov, ” Melikov Organizations: CNN, Dagestan Health Ministry, TASS, Makhachkala Uytash, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, Red Wing Airlines, Sunday, Jewish, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ” National Security, US Locations: Russia’s, Dagestan, Israel, Makhachkala, Tel Aviv, Russia, ”, Gaza, Ramallah, United States, Dagestan Republic

☆ Andhra Pradesh train accident: At least 10 reported dead after trains collide in southeast India
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Ritu Prasad | Vedika Sud | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least 10 people are dead and 27 others have been injured after two trains collided in southeast India Sunday, Reuters reports. A train traveling from Visakhapatnam, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, to Rayagada, in Odisha, had stopped due to a break in an overhead cable when it was hit by an oncoming train, in the Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh, Reuters said, citing a senior railway official. The collision derailed two coaches carrying more than 90 people on the stationary train, the official told Reuters. Sunday’s collision comes just four months after a separate train accident in Odisha, where three trains collided, leaving 275 people dead and more than 1,000 injured. Rescue operations are underway at the accident site, and all of the injured have been moved to hospitals, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on X.

NEW DELHI/DOHA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Eight Indian former naval officers who were handed the death penalty by a court in Qatar on Thursday were charged with spying for Israel, a source in India and another in Qatar said. Neither New Delhi nor Doha has officially stated the charges against the eight who were arrested in August 2022. In India, a government official aware of Doha's stance said the Qatar authorities had accused them of spying for Israel. The eight Indians will be able to appeal the death sentence, the source briefed on the case in Qatar told Reuters, as well as also saying they had been charged with spying for Israel. A spokesperson for India's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment about the sources' comments.

Persons: Jairam Ramesh, Krishn Kaushik, Andrew Mills, Dan Williams, Alison Williams Organizations: NEW, Reuters, Palestinian, Hamas, Qatari, Thomson Locations: NEW DELHI, DOHA, Qatar, Israel, India, Delhi, Doha, Jerusalem, Gaza, New Delhi, Qatar's

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Netanyahu said the Israeli military was still preparing for a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. American officials say it will take them a few more days to get many of those new antimissile batteries in place. The Financial Times reported earlier on the request to delay the ground invasion to give time to get the air defense assets in place. The American officials have urged Mr. Netanyahu’s war cabinet to give Washington more time to place antimissile batteries to protect both Israel and American troops in the region, according to several American officials. But the United States also believes that Israel may not have the capability to respond to a two-front war.

Persons: Biden, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, ”, “, ” Biden, Mick Mulroy, Antony J, Blinken, —, ” Israel, Julian E, Barnes, Aaron Boxerman Organizations: U.S, Financial Times, U.S . Navy, Pentagon, Lebanese, Hezbollah, American, ”, United Nations, Health Ministry Locations: Gaza, United States, U.S, Israel, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Iraq, Tehran, Washington

But the hope now is to reach a deal for a bigger group of hostages released at once. Israel is pressing for a comprehensive plan for such a release, another source said, after seeing just two sets of two hostages released so far. Israel has said there are more than 200 hostages believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza. We will not allow the fuel for Hamas so they can continue fighting against the citizens of Israel,” Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said. Determining how to release a larger round of hostages – if it were ultimately agreed upon – has been an extraordinarily complex undertaking.

Persons: CNN —, –, Mark Regev, ” Regev, “, Herzi Halevi, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, “ We’re, ”, Biden Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas Locations: Gaza, United States, Israel, Qatar, Egypt

Shadi Tabatibi/Reuters Relatives mourn for a family killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 21. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images Palestinians inspect a destroyed area following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 21. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters A woman mourns over a dead man at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza City on October 18. Yousef Masoud/The New York Times A morgue worker arranges body bags at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on October 12. Erik Marmor/AP Six-month-old Sama Alwadia is rescued from the rubble in Gaza City on October 9.

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☆ Hamas Released Two More Hostages
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hamas released two women who were taken hostage by the Palestinian group during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The Red Cross confirmed their release, saying that it had helped to transfer the women out of Gaza this evening. The Israeli prime minister’s office identified the women as Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who were released three days after Hamas set free an Israeli-American mother and her daughter. More than 220 others are believed to be held captive in Gaza, a tally that has grown as the Israeli military has collected more information. The Israeli military also said it had launched attacks in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, which has increased its attacks aimed at northern Israel in recent days.

Persons: Nurit Cooper, Yocheved Lifshitz, Biden Organizations: Cross, U.S, Hamas, Ministry Locations: Palestinian, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon

☆ US seeks delay of Israeli ground incursion for more time for hostage talks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“The [administration] pressed Israeli leadership to delay because of progress on the hostage front,” and the need to get trucks of aid into Gaza, one person familiar with the discussions said. A senior Israeli official denied the US is seeking a delay of its ground incursion into Gaza. The US is not pressing Israel in regards to the ground operation,” the official said. Each and every one of them, now, unconditionally.”“We don’t know why Hamas chose to release Natalie and Judith first. “That [military] pressure isn’t going to go because they were released,” the official said.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, Joe Biden, Judith Tai Raanan, Natalie Raanan, Antony Blinken, ”, Natalie, Judith, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Israel, NSC, ”, Press, Brigades, Israel’s Locations: Israel, Gaza, ” Qatar

☆ Israel-Hamas War Live Updates: Two Americans Taken Hostage in Gaza Are Released by Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Hamas released two U.S. citizens from Gaza, the first hostages freed since militants kidnapped more than 200 people during the Oct. 7 attack. Aid trucks were still waiting to enter the Gaza Strip as Israel continued airstrikes. Two Americans released: Judith Raanan and her daughter Natalie were released by Hamas and are on their way to an Israeli military base, the Israeli prime minister’s office said. Ground invasion: U.S. and European governments are pressing Israel to hold off on its ground invasion of Gaza to allow time for more hostage releases. Hamas officials said the Palestinian death toll was more than 4,100, though U.S. officials and experts have disputed that number.

Persons: Judith Raanan, Natalie, Biden, Israel Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Qatar, Rafah, Lebanese, U.S

☆ Biden’s Moment: A President Convinced of America’s Role in the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( David E. Sanger | More About David E. Sanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

President Biden could very well go down in history as the last American president born during World War II and shaped by a view of American power nurtured in the Cold War. To Mr. Biden’s mind, this has been the moment he has trained for his entire political career, a point he often makes when challenged about his age. In the past eight months, he has visited two countries in the midst of active wars. He has married his public embraces with private cautions, and kept American troops out of both conflicts — so far. Whether Mr. Biden can bring the American population along, however, is a more unsettled question than at any moment in his presidency, and the backdrop of his rare Oval Office address on Thursday night.

Persons: Biden, Golda Meir, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hamas —, “, ”, Michael Beschloss, Vladimir V, Putin, Peter the Great, Republicans —, Donald J, Trump Organizations: States —, Hamas, Ukraine, Republicans, Republican Party Locations: States, Ukraine, Israel, United States, America

☆ Don’t Let Israel Become a Nation of Revenge - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Ayman Odeh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I have friends who were killed and who lost children in Hamas’s murderous attack on Oct. 7. Yet despite all this, I have also witnessed glimmers of the future we could have, made real by ordinary people — Jewish and Arab, Palestinian and Israeli — who have stepped up in the face of unspeakable tragedy. In Israel, much of the military had been apparently stationed in the West Bank to protect settlers. Those of us who are Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel are uniquely positioned to see through his bluster and warmongering to the failure he really is — truths that the past several days have laid bare. The only way we can fulfill our responsibility to the nation of our youngest ones — and to ourselves — is to recognize the nation of Palestine and the nation of Israel and to establish a State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel.

Persons: —, Netanyahu Organizations: West Bank, State Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Israel, Palestinian, Palestine

☆ Israel Says It Will Allow Humanitarian Aid Into Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel will allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through Egypt following requests from President Biden, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said Wednesday after Biden's visit to Tel Aviv. Jerusalem had blocked the delivery of food, medicine and water to civilians in the aftermath of Hamas's deadly attack on Oct. 7. Israel warned it would only allow the aid if it didn't end in Hamas's hands and said it wouldn't allow any aid into Gaza from within its own borders until all of the 199 hostages taken by Hamas are returned. Israel has yet to agree on a mechanism to bring the aid in through Egypt, which had asked that the U.S. and Israel first promise a safe passage for humanitarian aid from Egypt into Gaza as a condition to letting even Americans through.

Persons: Biden, Biden's, Israel Organizations: Hamas Locations: Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

An explosion rocked a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, killing hundreds in one of the deadliest single incidents of violence in the strip—hours before President Biden was expected to visit Israel in a show of support. Hamas and Palestinian officials blamed Israel and said at least 500 people were killed. Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office said there were “clear indications” that the blast was a misfire by the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which the group denied. The source of the explosion couldn’t be immediately verified.

Persons: Biden, Israel Organizations: Israel, Minister’s Locations: Gaza

☆ Migrant’s drowning in Mediterranean prompts criticism of Malta's rescue policies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Reade Levinson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +13 min

Details of the incident, described to Reuters by humanitarian groups MSF, Sea-Watch and Alarm Phone, haven’t previously been reported. By the next morning, June 23, survivors told MSF, they had run out of food and water. [1/5]Handout image obtained by Reuters, October 12, 2023 shows a Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) rescue boat near a rubber boat carrying migrants from the Middle East and Africa, in the Mediterranean Sea, June 24, 2023. At 12:46 p.m., Alarm Phone called the Malta Search and Rescue Coordination Centre to report that one person was in the water. The passengers told the men they were scared and didn’t want to remain on the boat, survivors told MSF.

Persons: Africa –, ’, Ainhoa Campàs Velasco, Sabrina Borg, “, ”, Tommaso Foti, Foti, Oliver Kulikowski, Neil Azzopardi Ferriggi, Skye McKee, Handout, Kulikowski, Byron Camilleri, Camilleri, Jean, Pierre Gauci, Reade Levinson, Janet Roberts Organizations: Reuters, Sea, MSF, Geo, University of Southampton, “, EU, REUTERS Acquire, Passengers, Coordination, Watch, Reuters ., Maltese, Armed Forces of, Armed Forces, -, United Nations, Refugees, Amnesty International, European, of Human Rights, Home Affairs, European Union, British Institute of International, Comparative, La Spezia, Thomson Locations: East, Africa, Malta, Maltese, Italy, Europe, Italian, “ Malta, Sirte, Libya, Syria, South Sudan, Sea, Armed Forces of Malta, Malta's, Laconia, Gabon, ”, London

☆ This American family with roots in besieged Gaza suffers the consequences of Israel’s war on Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Aya Elamroussi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Wrapped in a blanket inside a makeshift tent, Ahmed Arafat tries to stay calm as the sounds of Israeli military drones echo through the night sky. Not heeding the warning came with the risk of losing his wife, two young children and other family members that lived in the building. “They’re just killing indiscriminately at this point.”Al-Rimal neighborhood, where the Arafat family lived, is seen on October 10, after a barrage of Israeli airstrikes turned it to rubble. Loay Ayyoub/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesSince then, Arafat and his family have been fleeing from home to home, often staying with friends and family. They’re my family.”Having lived in Gaza for so long, the retired school teacher is no stranger to war – but now things feel different.

Persons: CNN —, Ahmed Arafat, Arafat, “ They’ve, ” Arafat, “ They’re, ”, Shamdasani, “, … I’ve, ” Ahmed Arafat, Hisham Arafat ‘, Anita Arafat, “ He’s, Ahmed, ” Anita Arafat, Ashraf, Sameh, Hisham, Ashraf ., Hisham Arafat “, “ It’s, ” Ashraf Arafat, “ You’re, you’re, he’s, Antony Blinken Organizations: CNN, Washington Post, UN, Human Rights, Palestinian Ministry of Health Locations: Gaza, Rimal, Israel, Memphis , Tennessee, Ogden , Utah, Gaza City, Rafah, Egypt

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