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For Palestinians, a grim reality in Gaza obscures the future

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The Biden administration says it’s looking for leadership from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank after the war in Gaza is over. A new technocratic government has been sworn in, but as war continues to rage in Gaza, Palestinians are not hopeful. The World’s Matthew Bell speaks with people in the West Bank city of Ramallah about their vision for the future. 

Hamas militants grab a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel before being executed in Gaza City on August 22, 2014. Hamas militants killed seven Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel in a public execution in a central Gaza squar

Hamas tries to send a message to Israel — with an unprecedented mass execution

Conflict
An armored vehicle at the entrance to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, established in 1951 along the Gaza border.

Fighting has stopped again in Gaza, but nearby Israeli towns are still deserted

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Palestinians in Gaza City gather around the remains of a car which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday.

Israel and Hamas seem to be moving toward all-out war

Conflict & Justice
Tensions are high in the capital after 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir was was killed in an apparent revenge killing for three slain Jewish teens. Police watch as residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat set dumpsters on fire, throw rocks and

Israel is hunting Hamas members, but the family of a suspected killer says he’s not one of them

Conflict & Justice
Tensions are high in the capital after 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir was was killed in an apparent revenge killing for three slain Jewish teens. Police watch as residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat set dumpsters on fire, throw rocks and

Israel is hunting Hamas members, but the family of a suspected killer says he’s not one of them

Conflict & Justice

Israel’s hunt for the killers of three teenaged boys has focused squarely on Hamas, who Israel blames for the murders. But one suspect’s family says the search for Hamas members has wrongly pulled them in.

Islamic Republic of Iran Army T-55s move to front line of Iran-Iraq War.

The US and Iran part IV – hostile relations

Global Politics

US relations with Iran have never completely recovered from the seizure of American hostages at the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.