Wafaa Shurafa

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A Palestinian vegetable merchant shows worn-out Israeli currency Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Inside Gaza’s world of ‘cash brokers’ as currency disappears: ‘We lose nearly half of our money just to be able to spend it’

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samya Kullab, and others

Men carry a body of a child killed in an airstrike carried out by Israel

A 2 a.m. airstrike carried out by Israel struck a media tent, killing a local reporter and wounding six other journalists

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, and others

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Netanyahu says he’s talked to Trump 3 times since the election as Israel strikes Lebanon, Gaza

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, and others

explosion in city

Israel says it will attack Hezbollah’s financial arm ‘all over Lebanon’

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, and others

Yahya Sinwar, head of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas

Benjamin Netanyahu hails ‘the start of the day after Hamas’ after leader Yahya Sinwar is killed

By Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa, and others

Joe Biden

Gaza cease-fire is up to Hamas now, White House says

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, and others

Knesset

Israeli parliament stormed by dozens of family members of Hamas hostages, demanding deal to secure release

By Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa, and others

Prince Faisal bin Farhan

Saudi Arabia won’t normalize relations with Israel absent path to Palestinian state, top diplomat says

By Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa, and others