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By Helen Regan, Caitlin Hu, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Akanksha Sharma, Nadeen Ebrahim and Sophie Tanno, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s military is telling 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes immediately, as it appears to prepare to ramp up retaliation for Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks. Israeli warplanes continued on Friday

By Heather Chen and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Like his father Chumporn and dozens of other able-bodied men from their village in northeast Thailand, Manee Jirachart moved to Israel in search of work, dreaming of a better life. Jobs were hard to come by within his rural community so when Manee found a

By Rob Picheta, CNN Lublin and Kostrogaj, Poland (CNN) — A few days ago, eastern Poland was basking in unseasonably warm weather. But the winters here are long and harsh, and they can arrive with little warning. It’s Friday night in Lublin, and the weather has changed. The city’s youth are out, en masse, huddled

CNN By Paul P. Murphy, Tara John, Brent Swails and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The footage is from the last two years, but it is chillingly prescient. In a December 2022 video, Hamas fighters can be seen flooding a training area, shooting rockets and capturing pretend prisoners as they surround mock Israeli buildings. The

By Yahya Abou-Ghazala (CNN) — When Hamas fires rockets at Israel, advanced warning detectors set off alarms in targeted neighborhoods, civilians flee to an extensive network of bomb shelters, and the vaunted Iron Dome system works to intercept projectiles in the air. But in Gaza, none of those high-tech defenses were available to protect Maisara

By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN New Delhi and Islamabad (CNN) — In October 1952, five years after the Indian subcontinent won independence from its British colonial rulers, a young Pakistan cricket team stepped foot in the newly formed Republic of India. They had arrived to play a highly anticipated test series – the

By Paul P. Murphy, Tara John, Brent Swails and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The footage is from the last two years, but it is chillingly prescient. In a December 2022 video, Hamas fighters can be seen flooding a training area, shooting rockets and capturing pretend prisoners as they surround mock Israeli buildings. The camp,

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Each measuring just under 1 centimeter tall, and the width of a fingernail, five newly unearthed mysterious gold treasures found in Hov, Norway, could help unlock secrets of an ancient society, scientists say. The tiny pieces — intricately detailed gold foil figures discovered during excavations of a pagan religious

CNN’s Dalal Mawad and Eve Brennan Paris (CNN) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Paris on Thursday, in defiance of a controversial new ban on pro-Palestinian rallies in the country. French police and members of the gendarmerie worked to disperse the crowds with tear gas and water cannons, visuals showed. The ban had been

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Medical and relief workers are pleading for safe passage for the 2 million civilians in Gaza as Israel pounds the enclave with airstrikes and imposes a complete siege, in response to the brutal attack launched by the militant group Hamas. Time is running out for

By Jeremy Diamond and Michael Schwartz, CNN Southern Israel (CNN) — The signs of Israel’s massive mobilization for a potential ground invasion of Gaza are all around here. The highways are strewn with military vehicles – trucks full of ammunition, armored personnel carriers and tanks – as well as civilian cars and buses packed with

CNN By Matthew Chance, Richard Allen Greene and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told CNN, contradicting a previous public statement by the Prime Minister’s office. “There have

By Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When he heard that Hamas militants were attacking a music festival his family was attending, Ben said Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for his mother. “I didn’t know what to do. I said please kill her because it would be better than being kidnapped,”