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The Latest | Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israel says 1.9 million are crammed in central Gaza

Jul. 02, 2024 18:46 PM EDT

Palestinians are streaming out of eastern Khan Younis, the second-largest city in Gaza, as an Israeli evacuation order affects roughly 250,000 people, the United Nations said Tuesday. Israel’s military estimated that around 1.9 million people — more than 80% of all Palestinians...

Strike kills family as Israeli evacuation order sparks panicked flight from southern Gaza city

Jul. 02, 2024 16:47 PM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Hamdan family — around a dozen people from three generations — fled their home in the middle of the night after the Israeli military ordered an evacuation from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. They found refuge with extended relatives...

The Latest | Israel appears set to reinvade a city in Gaza filled with displaced civilians

Jul. 01, 2024 17:42 PM EDT

The Israeli army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the eastern half of Khan Younis. Monday’s order is a sign that Israeli troops could soon reinvade the southern Gaza city, which is currently filled with displaced civilians. Israel told people to move to Muwasi, a...

South Africa's unprecedented new coalition has 7 parties in the Cabinet. Here's a breakdown

Jul. 01, 2024 07:30 AM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has included seven different parties in his Cabinet in an unprecedented power-sharing agreement in the continent's most industrialized country after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in a milestone...

Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank kills a Palestinian militant and wounds 5 other people

Jun. 30, 2024 15:00 PM EDT

NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops carried out an airstrike in the northern West Bank on Sunday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding five other people, Palestinian health officials said. The strike took place in Nur Shams, an urban refugee camp that has...

France is facing an election like no other. Here's how it works and what comes next

Jun. 30, 2024 00:02 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — French voters are being called to the polls on Sunday for an exceptional moment in their political history: the first round of snap parliamentary elections that could see the country’s first far-right government since the World War II Nazi occupation — or no majority emerging at...

This is how the US-built pier to bring aid to Gaza has worked — or not

Jun. 28, 2024 15:56 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military-built pier has been pulled again from the Gaza shore due to rough seas, and its future role in the distribution of aid to Palestinians is uncertain. Humanitarian aid groups stopped distributing supplies that arrived by sea on June 9 due to...

A Palestinian was shot, beaten and tied to an Israeli army jeep. The army says he posed no threat

Jun. 28, 2024 06:56 AM EDT

JENIN, West Bank (AP) — When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle's neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. That was only the start of his ordeal. Hours later, beaten and bloodied, he found himself strapped to the searing hood of an Israeli...

Israel lets 19 kids leave Gaza who are sick or wounded, first medical evacuation in nearly 2 months

Jun. 27, 2024 19:13 PM EDT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli authorities say 68 people — 19 sick or wounded children plus their companions — have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since early May, when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down after Israel...

President Joe Biden 'appalled' by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue

Jun. 24, 2024 20:50 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opponents of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza staged a protest that evolved into brawling and one arrest outside a Los Angeles synagogue over the weekend in violence condemned on Monday by President Joe Biden and the city's mayor, who called for more police patrols. ...