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A Jewish student group at the University of Pennsylvania is facing potential disciplinary action for screening a documentary critical of the Israeli government. Multiple universities have now attempted to stop student screenings of…

A prestigious journal published by Harvard Law School has been accused of censorship after it refused to publish an academic article accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, allegedly because editors feared a backlash.The Harvard Law…

Two weeks into the war, the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA) received secret intelligence information from two European countries that warned: "A large, well-known organization is…

By The Associated Press Israel says its forces have entered Gaza’s Shifa hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff.The Israeli army had surrounded the facility as part of its ground offensive…

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Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the enclave, receives data from every hospital in the strip. Hospital administrators say they keep records of every wounded person occupying a bed and every body arriving at a morgue. The ministry…

Arab leaders are meeting in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for a joint summit that is expected to underline the urgency of ending Israel's attacks on Gaza before the conflict ignites the region, as the war between Israel and the…

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Isabel Kershner, covers Israeli and Palestinian politics and society for the New York Times and has been covering the war between Israel and Hamas.…

Israeli officials have said that a group of freelance Palestinian photographers who transmitted images of the October 7 Hamas raid to international media should be treated as terrorists, claiming that they had prior knowledge of the…

By The Associated Press A month into the war, Israel's military says it's fighting in the ‘depths’ of Gaza City after encircling the northern part of the besieged Palestinian enclave.Prime…