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Palestinians, who were injured last night while trying to get access to humanitarian aid, arrive at the al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas

More than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials say

JUNE 11, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Oscars Director
Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of "No Other Land," is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Breaking news

AP breaks and dominates on story of Oscar-winning filmmaker’s detention in occupied West Bank

APRIL 4, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians
Yamama Jundia, 13, injured in an Israeli airstrike, grieves alongside others over the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in the same strike, at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza

Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say

APRIL 4, 2025

Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas

Hamas hands over bodies of 4 hostages to Israel as dozens of Palestinians leave Israeli prison

FEB. 28, 2025

Laundry hangs on a destroyed building caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Laundry hangs on a destroyed building caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza

‘I won’t leave. Put that in your brain.’ Palestinians reject Trump’s call to expel them from Gaza

FEB. 5, 2025

Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

hostage

Israelis and Palestinians rejoice after more hostages and prisoners are freed

JAN. 31, 2025

A Hamas fighter lifts his weapon as displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Hamas fighter lifts his weapon as displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Conflict

Palestinians’ return to northern Gaza complicates Netanyahu’s war aims

JAN. 29, 2025

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza

Palestinians celebrate their return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war

JAN. 27, 2025

Members of the Abu Sheiban family salvage what they can of their belongings from under rubble of their destroyed home, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Members of the Abu Sheiban family salvage what they can of their belongings from under rubble of their destroyed home, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Conflict

Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’

JAN. 21, 2025

Syria Fall of Assad Photo Gallery
Syrian opposition fighters ride in a truck in Talhiya, Idlib province, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Palestinians

AP swift to the story when Bashar Assad’s government falls 

DEC. 20, 2024

Sitting next to her son Wael, left, Reem Ajour shows a picture of her daughter, Masaa, and her husband, Talal, on her cellphone in a camp outside Zuweida, Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Sitting next to her son Wael, left, Reem Ajour shows a picture of her daughter, Masaa, and her husband, Talal, on her cellphone in a camp outside Zuweida, Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza

These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza

DEC. 11, 2024

FILE - Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
FILE - Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Conflict

Banning UNRWA will lead to a vacuum and more suffering for Palestinians, the agency’s chief says

OCT. 30, 2024

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