Aya Batrawy
Stories
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National
Israel prepares for Rafah offensive as U.S. plans to build new Gaza port
Aid groups draw up contingency plans as Israel plans assault on Rafah, where most people in Gaza are displaced. Meanwhile, the U.S. is building a pier to deliver aid.
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World
A baby girl born orphaned and premature after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died
The newborn died after five days in an incubator. Her family was killed in an air strike. UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded.
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There are canceled flights and fish on sidewalks after Dubai's record rainfall
Dubai is still recovering from unprecedented floods days after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the United Arab Emirates.
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World
One man's search for his father in mass graves at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital
Recovery teams are exhuming bodies from mass graves at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital more than two weeks after an Israeli raid there.
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World
Israel's raid on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital foreshadows risks of Rafah assault
The aftermath of Israel's raid on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital and airstrike on foreign workers shows the risks of an even wider assault on Rafah, where most Palestinians are now sheltering.
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Blinken is in Israel aiming to negotiate a temporary cease-fire
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel after stops in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The war in Gaza is in its sixth month, and this is his sixth stop in the region since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
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Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, experts examining food insecurity say
A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says everyone in Gaza faces high levels of acute food insecurity, and more than a million struggle with catastrophic levels of hunger.
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World
Gaza's death toll now exceeds 30,000. Here's why it's an incomplete count
Gaza's health ministry announced Thursday that 30,035 Palestinians have been killed in the war. A close look at how the ministry counts those killed reveals a system buckling under the weight of war.
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National
The war in Gaza may be approaching a new phase
Negotiations toward a ceasefire in Gaza are progressing as Israel's prime minister sets a post-war vision. Negotiators from the U.S., Israel, Egypt and Qatar are to meet in Paris to discuss a deal.
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Egypt builds a buffer zone in anticipation of a Palestinian refugee spillover
More than half of Gaza's population has sought shelter in the southern region of Rafah across from Egypt's border. Israel warns of an impending ground invasion there if hostages aren't freed by Hamas.