The Sept. 7 Israeli-Jewish Operation: Report of the Operation and the State of the Situation in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon
The damage done by Israel to Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 attack is now complete. More Palestinians have been killed in this conflict than in any other in their history. The figure has topped 33,000, according to Gaza health authorities, and roughly two-thirds are believed to be civilians.
The war has had an impact on Israelis, Palestinians and the people in the wider region. In the last six months, they took pictures in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
More than 200 people were taken hostage from Israel to Gaza on October 7. 134 other people are still in captivity, but some of them are dead. Some of them were released in November, and two of them were saved by Israeli forces in February. Protests have grown in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urging the government to agree on a deal with Hamas for the remaining hostages’ release.
What Do We Know About The War Between Israel and Hezbollah in the Nearby Inflationary Region? An Experience with a Palestinian Man
Israel and Hezbollah are shooting at each other along the border of Lebanon, leading to fears of a wider war.
Arraf: I was at the southern border of Lebanon when I observed a man sitting in a chair in a courtyard looking across the border into Israel.
For decades, people in neighboring countries have expected anything they build to come crashing down because of the region’s instability. For the first time in a long while, international attention to the war has spurred some hope that there can be a Palestinian homeland.
The only way to see what’s happening on the ground after the US invasion of Iraq is by covering it. Israel prevents us from seeing what’s happening in Gaza.
I experienced that moment when we learned about the Israeli raid in Gaza that freed the two Israeli hostages. According to Gaza health authorities, scores of Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes.
The producer in Gaza recorded the sound of a mother wailing over her dead child. I was driving in Tel Aviv and listening to the cries of the Palestinian mother, as an Israeli drove past on his motorcycle with a bumper sticker that read, “Go IDF!” The army of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces, is a reference. Someone’s triumph is another person’s tragedy. Israelis and Palestinians live in two irreconcilable worlds.
The fighting was pretty bad, but today it’s worse. Clearly there’s a need to stop the killing and ease the human suffering, though it’s also important to think about what comes next.
If there’s a cease-fire, but if Hamas remains in power, continues to hold Israeli hostages, and poses an ongoing threat to Israel, that’s not going to be acceptable to Israel.
The reason World Central Kitchen was delivering food by sea, and the U.S. and other countries are dropping aid by plane, are Israeli restrictions on aid going by road into Gaza. Israel cites security concerns.
More humanitarian aid was told to the Israeli leader by Biden. Israel must change the way it wages the war in order for the U.S. to change its approach. Israel announced plan to expand aid deliveries to Gaza.
Gaza residents have been blown to pieces or buried under rubble in Israeli airstrikes that have flattened buildings. If you have connections to a foreign government, or are wealthy, you can escape the war.
Greg Myre: We saw widespread support for Israel on the day of the Hamas attack. Less than two weeks later, we saw President Biden fly to Israel, even as rockets were still raining down on Tel Aviv and other parts of the country. Biden and Netanyahu hugged each other on the tarmac at the airport.
We have seen unprecedented criticism of Israel, a country that has long received bipartisan backing in the U.S., because of the aggressive air and ground campaign waged by Israel. Some members of the Democratic Party to the college campuses are among the sources of the criticism. Most Americans supported Israel’s war effort at the start of the fighting. A recent survey shows that most Americans don’t approve of the way Israel is conducting the war.
Shortly after the war began, Biden proposed $14 billion in additional military assistance for Israel, which is already the leading recipient of such U.S. aid. Congress is blocking that plan, though it’s still on the table.
The normalization efforts with Israel spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates have papered over what countries like Jordan say is inevitable instability as long as that issue is unaddressed. In Jordan, one of only two countries that has a peace treaty with Israel, tension has risen along with the death toll in Gaza.
Protests near the Israeli Embassy in Amman are an almost nightly occurrence. As civilian death toll in Gaza mounts, more anger is directed towards the U.S. because it is the main military supplier to Israel.
The U.S. increased the naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean as a show of force. Despite this, relatively small U.S. military bases in Syria and Iraq came under fire from various militia groups, which led the U.S. to hit back. For the past month or so, those militia attacks have stopped.
The U.S. Navy is also in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen, trying to stop the Houthis from firing missiles at commercial ships. The attacks are happening on a regular basis.
Iran is supporting proxy groups in the Middle East according to the U.S. The region is not yet boiled over, though it is tense.
There is tension related to the killing of a team of aid workers in Gaza, including an American. What have the repercussions been?
The other two are in Amman, Jordan and Washington, DC and have been working in the region.
The NPR correspondents took their experience reporting in the region to look at how the war was shaping the region and where it could be headed.
Hamas unleashed its early morning rampage in southern Israel six months ago this Sunday, igniting the deadliest war ever between Israelis and Palestinians.