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Talk of a cease-fire had been shattered by an attack in Israel and more airstrikes on targets in Gaza. But in Egypt, which had been trying to broker a truce, a deal was announced. Will it last?

The Gaza Strip has an elaborate system of smuggling tunnels linked to Egypt. We originally published this story on the tunnels in 2012 and are republishing it now in light of the latest fighting.

Renee Montagne talks to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and which power players stand to win or lose from the crisis.

There is still no sign of a cease-fire in Gaza after more than two weeks of fighting. Sporadic gunbattles between Israel and Hamas continue, and the U.N. says tens of thousands of internally displaced Gaza civilians are struggling to find shelter from the fighting.

The Palestinians have been firing rockets at Israel for years, but the volleys had been confined to the sparsely populated south of the country. The attack directed at Jerusalem is seen as a powerful symbolic blow.

As the airstrikes on Gaza continue and more rockets are fired into Israel, there's concern about an all-out war. More than 10 people have been killed in Hamas-controlled territory in the past two days. At least three Israelis have died on the other side.

The president's political party, the Muslim Brotherhood, said a changed Egypt will no longer allow "Palestinians to be subjected to Israeli aggression."

Violence continued in the Gaza Strip today as reports surfaced of an Israeli strike on a school that killed more than 30 people. Ahmed Abu Hamda, who is a Gaza resident and a news producer for many news networks, including NPR, says everyone is panicked and trying to stay find a safe place to stay.

Some Egyptian ambulances have been allowed into the embattled Gaza Strip, presumably to pick up badly wounded civilians for treatment in Egyptian hospitals. Israeli warplanes and drones remain active along the frontier, drawing fire from Hamas militants.

Palestinians living in Gaza have been under consistent attack from Israeli forces this week. Guy Raz talks with local psychiatrist Eyad Sarajj about how he and his family are coping.

The Islamic movement Hamas, which controls Gaza, emerged during the first intifada, which began in 1987, says Ambassador Philip Wilcox, former chief of mission and U.S. consul general in Jerusalem. Wilcox says the group grew in strength by presenting itself as a clean alternative to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.

In the final hours of President Biden's term, an anonymous prediction market trader placed lucrative bets on who would be pardoned even as the odds were nearly zero.