Gaza

For a surgeon treating Lebanon’s wounded children, their horrific injuries bring back memories from Gaza

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BEIRUT — For British Palestinian surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and his colleagues at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, the wounds he is treating on children are an all-too-familiar sight. The number of pediatric casualties is mounting from Israeli strikes across Lebanon, targeting the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, after military operations resumed when … Read more

Inside the Gaza tunnels that Israel says must be destroyed before reconstruction can begin

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Crossing into the enclave, the perfectly paved streets and green farmland in Israel’s border region disappear, replaced by destruction and dirt roads as you enter northern Gaza and the largely destroyed Shujaiya neighborhood where the tunnel was located. Fairly close by, what sounded like gunshots could be heard at one point. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, … Read more

Trump’s Board of Peace meets, facing wariness and an immediate test: Gaza

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United Nations Security Council, step aside. Make way for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. The U.S. president’s version of international conflict resolution holds its inaugural meeting Thursday in Washington. Among its aims: to display to the world a personalized brand of peacemaking and postwar reconstruction that envisions nothing less than becoming the new standard for such … Read more