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A new study says half a million people are now facing starvation, as all of the Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine. Aid groups say Israel needs to secure aid routes.

Dr. Medhat Abbas, Gaza's Health Ministry director general, said his hospital was already short on medical supplies and medications. Now, with military strikes that have killed hundreds, it's worse.

Pope Francis overcame concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass, leading tens of thousands of people in a flower-decked St. Peter's Square.

The photo of a 10-year-old girl in Gaza killed by an Israeli airstrike while wearing her pink roller skates goes viral.

The death toll is rising in Israel and Gaza, as the Israeli military and Hamas militants battled for a second day.

The Economist Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom explains why some Arab leaders hate Hamas, fear Iran and have some sympathy for Israel — although not for how Israel is waging the war.

Gazans are increasingly voicing their anger at Hamas' handling of the war and the heavy costs civilians have paid.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Leonard Rubenstein of Johns Hopkins University about the unprecedented Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and what international law could do to protect them.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dr. Ismail Mehr of the Islamic Medical Association of North America about the collapsed medical care in Rafah, a region of Gaza that Israel threatens to invade.

Since October 7, there have been at least 410 attacks on health care in Gaza, according to the World Health Organization. What does international humanitarian law say about targeting hospitals?

Aid groups that help families get a sick or injured child to another country for care say obtaining approval from Israel for the child and an adult companion to leave has become intensely difficult.

A rocket has hit a sports complex filled with children playing soccer in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights region Saturday afternoon, on the same day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a school building and killed dozens.