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    1. Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attack

      The Times reviewed the minutes of 10 meetings among Hamas’s top leaders. The records show the militant group avoided several escalations since 2021 to falsely imply it had been deterred — while seeking Iranian support for a major attack.

       By Ronen BergmanAdam Rasgon and

      A house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel, last December that was among those attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.
      A house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel, last December that was among those attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.
      CreditAvishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times
  1. Israel Orders Gazans to Leave the North, but Most Are Staying Put

    A woman in a town surrounded by Israeli troops said she and her family stayed away from the windows and prayed for relief: “That’s how we survive these dark days.”

     By Raja Abdulrahim and

    Smoke rising as seen from a shelter in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, on Wednesday.
    CreditOmar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  2. Conditions in Gaza Worsen Amid Israeli Strikes

    UNICEF said women and children were killed in an airstrike while waiting for malnutrition treatment.

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    Palestinians inspecting a destroyed school after an airstrike on Thursday in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza.
    CreditMohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock
  3. Biden and Netanyahu Speak for the First Time in Months as Mideast Crisis Deepens

    The conversation carried the weight of the worst relationship between the United States and Israel in years.

     By David E. Sanger and

    President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House in July. Their call on Wednesday came at a moment when U.S. national security officials believe the Middle East is on a knife’s edge.
    CreditKenny Holston/The New York Times
  4. Who Are the U.N. Peacekeepers at Lebanon’s Border With Israel?

    Established to maintain peace in southern Lebanon, the UNIFIL forces have been increasingly caught in the middle of the Israeli-Hezbollah war.

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    An Italian member of the U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon in July.
    CreditDiego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times
  5. Gaza in Ruins After a Year of War

    Much of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel’s relentless military campaign.

     By Raja AbdulrahimHelmuth RosalesBilal ShbairAnjali SinghviErika SolomonIyad AbuheweilaAbu Bakr BashirAmeera HaroudaMalika KhuranaVeronica Penney and

    CreditThe New York Times

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  1. Lebanon’s Hospitals Buckle Amid Israel’s Offensive Against Hezbollah

    The United Nations says “the targeting of health and relief operations is broadening” in Lebanon. Hospitals say they have been forced to close or are struggling to operate.

     By Euan Ward and

    “I don’t want to close the hospital,” said Elie Hachem, director of St. Therese Hospital, on the outskirts of Beirut, that has been damaged by airstrikes. “The community needs us.”
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  2. Iranian General Is Seen in State Media After Questions Over His Whereabouts

    Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, commander of the elite Quds Force, appeared in video footage on Tuesday as Tehran braces for a possible counterstrike by Israel.

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    Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, center, pictured at a funeral ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday for Maj. Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior Iranian military official who was killed in a strike in Beirut, Lebanon.
    CreditMajid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency, via Reuters
  3. Deadly Israeli Strike Hits Central Gaza Hospital Complex

    Israel said it targeted Hamas fighters inside the hospital compound, where displaced people were living in tents. A separate strike killed several people at a Gazan school turned shelter.

     

    CreditMohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock
  4. Deadly Hezbollah Strike on Army Base Shows Israel’s Weakness Against Drones

    Israel has one of the world’s best defenses against missiles and rockets, but struggles to detect slower-moving unmanned aircraft, experts said.

     By Patrick Kingsley and

    Military facilities near the site of a drone attack outside Binyamina, Israel, on Monday.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
  5. How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza

    Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.

     By Natan OdenheimerBilal Shbair and

    Israeli soldiers during a military tour for journalists of a tunnel under a U.N. site in Gaza. The Times later found that a Palestinian had been forced to explore the tunnel.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
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