Emily Fang
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-25-2024 6PM EST
At Christmas Mass, in the Catholic section of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, worshippers and visitors alike crowded into the pews. Nearby, nuns and pilgrims chanted prayers and sang songs in an underground grotto in the church's Greek Orthodox section. This grotto was believed to be the cave where Jesus Christ was born. But the church and manger square in front of it was relatively empty.
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NPR News: 12-25-2024 6PM EST
Celebrations have been muted to mourn the more than 45,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza. Emily Fang, NPR News, Bethlehem, the West Bank.
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NPR News: 01-09-2025 6PM EST
A celebratory band played as Lebanon's Speaker of Parliament declared Joseph Aoun Lebanon's next president. The parliament had failed 12 previous times to agree on a president, but this time opposition to Aoun, primarily from the fighting group Hezbollah, largely vanished.
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NPR News: 01-09-2025 6PM EST
Aoun is also the commander of Lebanon's military, which by convention, like the president's office, should be held by a Maronite Christian. And he had to bypass constitutional restrictions that forbid him from running for president while holding another office.
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NPR News: 01-09-2025 6PM EST
But he commands support from a coalition of Lebanon's diverse sectarian groups, and he will be crucial to implementing a ceasefire with Israel. Emily Fang, NPR News, Beirut.
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NPR News: 12-29-2024 9PM EST
At 75 years old, Netanyahu is among the more senior end of world leaders. He was fitted with a pacemaker last year and earlier this spring had surgery for a hernia. Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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NPR News: 12-29-2024 9PM EST
This is not the first time the prime minister has had health problems while Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. In Gaza, against Houthi militants in Yemen and in Syria, where Israeli troops have occupied more territory. Netanyahu also is in the middle of testifying in his own corruption trial. A Jerusalem court agreed he could postpone several days of testimony this coming week due to surgery.
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NPR News: 12-29-2024 8PM EST
Al Wafa Clinic specialized in physical therapy services in Gaza City, but Israel's military said the clinic was a Hamas command center and accused Hamas fighters of embedding in civilian buildings. Meanwhile, northern Gaza's last functioning hospital was shut down by Israeli soldiers over the weekend and 240 people there arrested.
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NPR News: 12-29-2024 8PM EST
North Gaza has been essentially cut off since October, when Israel launched an ongoing and punishing military campaign in the area. That displaced more than 100,000 people. The World Health Organization said it was, quote, appalled by Israel's systemic dismantling of the health system there. Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv, Israel.