JULIA FRANKEL

Reporter

Frankel is an Associated Press reporter in Jerusalem.

In Gaza’s crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy

For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.

As wars rage around them, Armenian Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City feel the walls closing in

As the war in Gaza rages, Syria’s government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, Armenian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem fight a different battle.

Paraguay reopens its embassy in Jerusalem, handing Israel a rare diplomatic victory

Paraguay has reopened its embassy in Jerusalem, a move that marks a diplomatic win for Israel as it faces increasing international isolation because of the Gaza war.

These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza

Dozens of Palestinians are receiving help from an Israeli legal group in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza Strip.

Israelis are wary of returning to the north because they don’t trust the ceasefire with Hezbollah

Even after a tenuous Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took hold this week, the mood among residents of northern Israel is far from celebratory.

Day 2 of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire sees Israeli airstrike on Lebanon and scattered attacks

The Israeli military says its warplanes have fired on southern Lebanon after detecting activity by the militant Hezbollah group at a rocket storage facility there.

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire quiets one front but Gaza sees no end to war

For many across the Middle East, the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire came as a relief: the first major sign of progress in the region since war began more than a year ago.

The Israel-Hezbollah war by the numbers

A ceasefire has taken effect between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. The agreement calls for a two-month initial halt in fighting and would require Hezbollah to end its armed presence in a broad swath of southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops would return to their side of the border.

US sanctions group that builds illegal West Bank settlements, with close ties to Israeli government

The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on organizations and firms involved in illegal settlement development in the occupied West Bank, including a well-established decades-old group that has close ties with Israeli leadership.

Israel demolishes village at the heart of Bedouin minority’s struggle over land

Israeli authorities have completed the demolition of a village at the heart of a yearslong struggle by the members of its Arab Bedouin minority against relocation plans.

Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?

A month has passed since U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin delivered an ultimatum to Israeli officials.

US says it will not limit Israel arms transfers after some improvements in flow of aid to Gaza

The Biden administration says Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and therefore it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved.

Hungry Palestinians in north Gaza search for food, sealed off from aid for a month by Israeli siege

Palestinians in northern Gaza are rationing out their last supplies of food to survive, with no aid entering the area for the past month under an Israeli siege.

A new law allows Israel to deport the relatives of attackers. Experts expect it to be struck down

Israel’s parliament has passed a law that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip or other locations.

Takeaways from AP’s report on three hospitals in northern Gaza raided by Israeli troops

One of the most startling aspects of Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza has been the destruction wreaked on the territory’s health sector.

Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again

They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.

Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone

Satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts show extensive destruction in 11 villages in southern Lebanon located immediately next to the border with Israel.

Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza’s most devastated region

More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip.

Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires

Israeli authorities say rocket barrages fired from Lebanon have killed four Thai agricultural workers and three Israelis in northern Israel in the deadliest cross-border strikes from the country since Israel launched its ground invasion.

A new push to wind down the Middle East wars faces familiar challenges

The United States and other mediators are ramping up efforts to halt the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s move to ban a UN agency raises alarm about aid to Gaza even as the implications are unclear

Israeli legislation cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has raised fears that the largest provider of aid to Gaza could be shut out of the war-ravaged territory, even as the implications of the new laws remain unclear.

What to know about Israel’s new laws banning UNRWA

Israel’s parliament has passed bills banning the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

After Sinwar’s death, hostage families see a ‘window of opportunity’ to bring their loved ones home

The families of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza say time is of the essence to rescue their loved ones following the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, by Israeli troops in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas signal resistance to ending Gaza war after Sinwar’s death

Hamas has confirmed that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and reiterated its stance that hostages the militant group took from Israel a year ago will not be released until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants.

A year after the Hamas attack shattered this Israeli community, going home still feels impossible

A year has passed since Hamas militants tore through the border fence separating Gaza from the small community of Kfar Aza, killing scores of civilians and taking over a dozen residents hostage.

As Israel’s fight with Hezbollah heats up, people of Gaza fear being forgotten

As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, Palestinians in Gaza are fearful their plight is being overlooked by the international community.

Rare Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills Hezbollah commander and more than a dozen others

Israel has launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood.

Israeli soldiers pushed 4 apparently lifeless bodies from roofs during a West Bank raid

Videos obtained by The Associated Press show Israeli soldiers pushing four apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the occupied West Bank.

Is Israel preparing for a war with Hezbollah?

The specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before. Tensions rose sharply after Israel’s defense minister announced a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack set off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon.