Daniel Estrin
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Apple News Today
What new election results tell us about how attitudes are shifting
We spoke with several eyewitnesses who took part in the protests, who said people are fed up with all of the conditions that they're under from the war with Israel, from Israeli displacement orders. People feel that there are no more safe places to go. And people in Gaza tell us that demonstrators spontaneously went to the streets and demanded the fall of Hamas rule in Gaza.
Apple News Today
What new election results tell us about how attitudes are shifting
We saw a rare protest in 2019 by Palestinians protesting Hamas for their living conditions. That protest was quashed with arrests and beatings. And then during this war, we have seen open criticism by Palestinians accusing Hamas of not doing enough to protect them from Israel's retaliation for the October 7th attack in 2023.
Apple News Today
What new election results tell us about how attitudes are shifting
But these protests we saw last week were rare and were daring and were definitely something new.
Apple News Today
What new election results tell us about how attitudes are shifting
It's really hard to tell whether protests in Israel against the Israeli government and its policy of continuing the war will sway the Israeli government to change course. It's hard to say whether the anti-Hamas sentiment we saw on the streets in Gaza will convince Hamas to change course.
Apple News Today
What new election results tell us about how attitudes are shifting
What we do know is that these protests on both sides come at a major inflection point in the war, where Israeli civilians and Palestinian civilians in Gaza were saying that they're fed up. Whether their leadership will listen to them is an open question.
Consider This from NPR
Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
Audacity is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump celebrated at the White House. Netanyahu gave Trump a golden pager commemorating Israel's exploding pager attack last year against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Then Trump floated his proposal to empty Gaza and take it over. And Netanyahu praised Trump.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
He's right. Palestinian leaders in Saudi Arabia have rejected the removal of Palestinians from Gaza. Former Israeli officials are casting doubt on the viability of a U.S. takeover. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
The U.S. is now involved in two Middle Eastern negotiations, one to get Hamas to give up its control of Gaza and release all Israeli hostages. and another to get Saudi Arabia to establish ties with Israel. Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami wonders if Trump could be employing a negotiating tactic.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
Trump's endorsement of expelling Palestinians from their land helps Netanyahu stay in power and keep together his far-right allies, who have threatened to walk away because they want Israel to resume fighting in Gaza. Israeli columnist Nadav Eyal.
Consider This from NPR
Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said Palestinians want to rebuild Gaza after a devastating war, not abandon Gaza.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
Trump said he wants to help Palestinians by sending Gaza's nearly 2 million residents to other countries.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
In Gaza City, which has been largely destroyed in the recent war, NPR producer Anas Baba asked young Palestinians what they want. But Sam Abdelraouf, 29, said, even if there were a place a million times better than Gaza, even if life there would be luxurious, I would still live among the rubble and in tents here. I do not know how to describe what our love for Gaza means.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
Another man, 30-year-old Yahya Barakat, said he'd take Trump up on the offer. He said, my home is gone, my life is gone, my future is gone. If I find a country that provides me with safety and a good life, I will leave my homeland.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-02-2025 7PM EDT
In a video, Netanyahu said Israeli troops are establishing a third security corridor that will cut across southern Gaza. It will run parallel to a border zone with Egypt, further bisecting the territory. Netanyahu said in Hebrew, this is a tactic to pressure Hamas to free Israeli hostages. Netanyahu said the more they refuse, the more the pressure will increase until they do.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 7PM EDT
Israel's military says it has encircled an area of southern Gaza and killed Palestinian militants. Gaza health officials say Israeli troops have killed scores of Palestinians in the past day. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-25-2025 5PM EDT
Videos posted on social media show crowds chanting, out, out, out, Hamas go out. Protesters called for media coverage, chanting, where is the media? Eyewitnesses say thousands took part in the demonstration in Beit Lahya in northern Gaza, which began as an anti-war protest.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-25-2025 5PM EDT
One protester who requested we only use his first name, Ibrahim, to speak freely against Hamas, told NPR, Hamas is not taking us into account. It has two million people in Gaza who need to live. He called on Hamas to release the Israeli hostages and leave Gaza. Over the years, Hamas has cracked down on dissent, but open criticism has grown during the war. Hamas did not break up the protest.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-18-2025 4PM EDT
Ceasefire negotiations reached a dead end in recent days. Israel and Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, had been laying down new terms for Hamas. The terms were to release half of the living hostages Hamas has in Gaza and then to begin discussing the end of the war after that.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-18-2025 2PM EDT
Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim, based in Qatar, told NPR that mediators have not presented Hamas with a new framework for a ceasefire. Naim says the U.S. must, quote, intervene immediately to stop this aggression, and for Israel to adhere to a January agreement to enter talks for a permanent end of the war. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-18-2025 2PM EDT
Israel's offensive is dubbed Operation Strength and Sword. An internal Israeli government memo obtained by NPR says, Israel is returning to intensified fighting in Gaza. Israel says its offensive is to press Hamas to accept a proposal by President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff for the release of more Israeli hostages. Hamas offered a counterproposal last week, which the U.S. and Israel rejected.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-04-2025 3PM EST
The World Health Organization says it helped evacuate the 29 children needing specialized medical care, including for cancer. King Abdullah of Jordan told President Trump in the Oval Office last month that Jordan will take in a total of 2,000 children needing medical care.
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NPR News: 03-04-2025 3PM EST
It was the Jordanian king's response to Trump's call for Jordan and countries in the region to absorb Gaza's entire population. Arab countries are rejecting the idea. Egypt is hosting a summit of Arab countries to discuss alternative plans for rebuilding Gaza without a mass displacement of Palestinians. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-20-2025 5PM EDT
One of the hardest parts of this study was getting the babies into the fMRI machine.
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NPR News: 03-20-2025 5PM EDT
That's Yale cognitive neuroscientist Nick Turk-Brown. His team showed infants a series of images they'd never seen before while snapping photos of their brains, including the hippocampus.
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NPR News: 03-20-2025 5PM EDT
Tristan Yates is a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia. The more active the hippocampus was when seeing an image for the first time, the more likely babies were to remember it later, meaning that infants seem to form memories. Whether we can retrieve them later in life remains an open question. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
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NPR News: 02-06-2025 4PM EST
The military says over three months, the soldier beat bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees and struck them with his weapon, which he documented with his cell phone. Other soldiers participated, but they were masked, and the army says it doesn't know who they are. The soldier was sentenced to seven months in prison in a plea bargain.
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NPR News: 02-06-2025 4PM EST
The Israeli military says it's the first conviction of a soldier during the Gaza war. and it says it shows a commitment to accountability. This case took place at a facility inside Israel, where there have been widespread accounts of severe abuse by soldiers, including life-threatening assault. No soldiers have been convicted for any abuses committed inside Gaza. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Ramallah.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-23-2025 5PM EDT
The Israeli military says it has launched an offensive near Rafah in southern Gaza. Medics report heavy fighting from Israeli ground troops. Palestinians only recently returned to live in that area during a ceasefire. Now Israel is ordering them to leave to a zone along the coast. Hamas says among those killed in Israel's latest strikes was one of the last Hamas political leaders based in Gaza.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-23-2025 5PM EDT
All of this is part of Israel's return to war, to pressure Hamas to release hostages under more favorable terms to Israel. Israel says its security cabinet reviewed plans for continuing an aid blockade on Gaza and increasing the military campaign. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-05-2025 8PM EDT
A lawyer for Netanyahu says President Trump invited the Israeli leader to the White House this coming Monday, the first world leader scheduled to meet Trump since the U.S. imposed tariffs on many countries. Netanyahu wants Trump to reverse the new 17% tariff on Israeli imports. Netanyahu is currently in Hungary. When he arrived this week, Hungary withdrew from the International Criminal Court.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-05-2025 8PM EDT
The court has an arrest warrant out for Netanyahu for alleged crimes in the Gaza war. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-02-2025 6PM EST
Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff. There was no immediate U.S. comment. Hamas says the newest proposal is an attempt to evade the original deal and called for immediate talks for the second stage of the ceasefire. In response to Hamas's position, Israel says it's blocking all further goods and supplies to Gaza. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-02-2025 6PM EST
The first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is now over. The two sides were meant to negotiate a second phase with talks on a permanent end of the war. Israel has announced a new proposal to extend the ceasefire by seven weeks and for Hamas to release half of its hostages at the start and then hold talks toward a permanent end of the war. Israel says it's a proposal from U.S.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-14-2025 8PM EST
American Sagid Dekelhen is among the hostages to be released tomorrow. In exchange, Hamas expects Israel to release 36 Palestinians convicted for deadly attacks against Israelis and to release more than 300 Palestinians arrested in Gaza during the war. Earlier this week, Hamas had said it would delay the hostage release, alleging ceasefire violations by Israel, which Israel denied.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-14-2025 8PM EST
The dispute was resolved. Keith Siegel, an American hostage freed this month, credited President Trump with his release.
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NPR News: 02-14-2025 8PM EST
President Trump... You are the reason I am home alive. Your leadership and strength will ensure the agreement is honored by all sides. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-07-2025 8PM EST
Speaking at a press conference, Trump was unclear about his own role in Doge's actions, but seemed to say he had given Musk wide reign.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-07-2025 8PM EST
He added several times that he wants Doge to target the education department and the military for cuts. Trump did say he doesn't plan on having Musk make changes to Social Security or Medicare, but added that the administration would be looking for fraud in those programs. Danielle Kurtz-Lehman, NPR News, the White House.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-31-2025 5PM EDT
Israel's security cabinet has approved a new road for Palestinians bypassing a big Israeli settlement near Jerusalem. Israel says the road would allow for Israeli building in the heart of the West Bank in an area known as E1. In the past, the U.S. opposed Israeli building there because it would make it hard to establish a contiguous Palestinian state. The Trump administration issued no comment.
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NPR News: 03-31-2025 5PM EDT
Khalil Abourish is the mayor of the Palestinian village of Bethany in the area.
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NPR News: 03-31-2025 5PM EDT
The Israeli monitoring group Peace Now says the road would allow Israel to annex a large area of the West Bank. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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NPR News: 03-24-2025 5PM EDT
Multiple studies show no link between immigration and violent crime. On April 2nd, when this new tariff goes into effect, Trump also plans what he calls reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-24-2025 5PM EDT
Both people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the classified military plans. They said the plans would have major forces occupy Gaza, pushing Palestinians into a small zone designated for civilians, and that Israel is examining options for the military to take control of distributing food at a minimal caloric amount.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-24-2025 5PM EDT
Both people who reviewed the plans said it was unclear if or when the plans would be carried out, or if they were a negotiation tactic to pressure Hamas to release more Israeli hostages. The military said it would not comment on future operational plans. It has announced it's mobilizing another army division for ground operations. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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NPR News: 03-24-2025 5PM EDT
Trump said countries buying the oil and gas would pay the tariff. This is not how tariffs work. An American tariff would be paid by a company in America importing foreign goods. The reason for the new tariff, Trump wrote, is violent immigrants from Venezuela. Trump claims, without evidence, that the Venezuelan government purposely sent criminals to the U.S.
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NPR News: 03-17-2025 2PM EDT
Israel is not yet ready to commit to an end of the war, with Hamas still ruling Gaza. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to fire his domestic intelligence chief because he has lost trust in him. The security chief has been a main proponent of a hostage release deal with Hamas. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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NPR News: 03-17-2025 2PM EDT
Israel is demanding the immediate release of 11 out of the 24 living hostages still held in Gaza. The U.S. is calling for an exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and an extension of the ceasefire for many weeks to try to reach a permanent end of the war. Hamas says it will release one living American Israeli hostage, but is demanding immediate talks on permanently ending the war.
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Netanyahu's corruption trial has gone on for more than four years. He's charged with granting favors to media moguls in exchange for positive press coverage and lavish gifts. Netanyahu denies wrongdoing, and he's scheduled to take the witness stand for the first time on December 2nd. But his lawyers are asking the court for a two-and-a-half month delay.
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NPR News: 11-11-2024 3PM EST
They say Netanyahu could not properly prepare because of Israel's assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah officials, Gaza hostage negotiations, Israel's intensified war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and strikes by Iran and Israel on each other's territory. Critics say Netanyahu cannot properly lead the country while on trial and should step down. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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NPR News: 03-10-2025 5PM EDT
Trump's envoy Adam Boehler held secret direct talks recently with Hamas, which he spoke about on CNN yesterday.
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NPR News: 03-10-2025 5PM EDT
Boehler also told Israeli public broadcasting that Hamas is proposing a 5-10 year truce with Israel, with the U.S. ensuring no Hamas tunnels or military activity in Gaza — and without Hamas involved in governing Gaza. It's the first time details have emerged about a proposed timetable for Hamas laying down its arms. Hamas has not commented publicly. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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NPR News: 03-28-2025 4PM EDT
The Metals Company is a Canada-based mining startup. They plan to collect nickel and cobalt from the deep ocean floor. The firm says those metals can be used in electric car batteries, but critics say deep-sea mining is unproven and could harm the marine environment.
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NPR News: 03-28-2025 4PM EDT
For more than a decade, most of the world's countries have been working together to draw up regulations for a deep-sea mining industry. That effort is part of the International Seabed Authority. But the United States is not a member of the group and isn't bound by its rules. Greenpeace calls the company's intent to work with the U.S., quote, a slap in the face to international cooperation.
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NPR News: 03-28-2025 4PM EDT
The U.S. Department of Commerce didn't immediately comment on the matter. For NPR News, I'm Daniel Ackerman.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
Well, a senior Hamas official told us that mediators were actually holding ceasefire talks with Hamas in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday when these surprise Israeli strikes began. And an Israeli official tells us deception was the point. It began around 2.10 in the morning. Israel launched its first strikes, took about 10 minutes. This happened after weeks of preparations.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
These plans were kept inside a closed circle of the Israeli military. And it came as a surprise to many Israelis and the public, too. Many recently freed hostages spoke out yesterday about this return to war. We counted more than half of the living Israeli hostages recently freed by Hamas, said the move endangered the lives of other hostages still in Gaza.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
Well, the old ceasefire deal was struck under the Biden administration, and Israel sees itself as having leeway to try to extract new ceasefire terms under President Trump. That's exactly what Trump's Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, tried to do. He presented a proposal last week for new ceasefire terms for Hamas to release more hostages before the talks to end the war began.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
And Israel said it's returning to war now to pressure Hamas to agree to those terms.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
Well, a Hamas official tells us that the group's main demands still remain. And those main demands are to go back to the original terms of the deal brokered under Biden and to begin discussing the permanent end of the war. You have to understand, A, that in recent months, aid supplies were surging back to Gaza under the ceasefire. And Hamas was beginning to recover.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
And Israel saw that Hamas was benefiting from the lack of war. and from talks continuing in recent weeks without giving up more hostages. And so here we are.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
It does benefit him politically because he has this deadline. He has to pass a national budget in two weeks or his government could collapse. And so returning to war allows him to convince his far-right ally, Itamar Ben-Gvir, to rejoin the coalition now. It strengthens his coalition. He can support a new budget.
Up First from NPR
USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
It allows Netanyahu to distract from a move he tried to fire his domestic security chief, which is sparking street protests. We could see this round of strikes in Gaza lasting another couple weeks until Netanyahu can pass a budget. and until he has more flexibility to maybe resume a ceasefire then.
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
and that Israel is examining options for the military to control the distribution of food, which would be limited to a minimum caloric amount. Now, both people who reviewed these plans said it's unclear if they would really be carried out or if they're just a negotiation tactic to pressure Hamas to release more hostages. In fact, it might be both, getting some hostages free and
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
Hamas captivity initially, but then gradually moving toward full military rule over Palestinians in Gaza, which would go far beyond what Israel has stated as its war goals. The military told me it would not comment on future operational plans.
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
We don't know. Trump administration officials did not return my requests for comment. We do know that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Israel's military operations in Gaza yesterday. We also know that President Trump's Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, has acknowledged that Bibi Netanyahu's return to war is not what many Israelis want.
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Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
He talked about that in a podcast interview with commentator Tucker Carlson, published Friday.
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
And indeed, there have been daily protests in the streets here saying the return to war only benefits Netanyahu's right-wing coalition and endangers hostages in Gaza.
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
Some are seeing this as something that should have been done already and that can actually lead to the defeat of Hamas. We spoke with Amir Avivi, who's a former deputy commander of the military's Gaza division.
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Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
So he's saying a few months, but other Israeli defense officials and analysts who I spoke with are more skeptical about that. Also, Dan Shapiro, a top Pentagon official on Mideast policy under the Biden administration, spoke with us. They're saying, OK, well, once Israel occupies Gaza, then what? This could mire Israeli soldiers in Gaza for decades.
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
And we're hearing from reservist soldiers already. They're exhausted after more than a year of war and very skeptical that this could actually change the picture fundamentally.
Up First from NPR
Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
Well, I've spoken to two people who they reviewed the classified plans and they spoke to me on condition of anonymity to discuss them. The plans would have Israeli forces occupy Gaza, entering at multiple points, pushing Palestinians into a small zone designated for civilians and