 Palestinians looked for survivors after Israeli airstrikes yesterday in the Jabaliya neighborhood of northern Gaza.Reuters |
| Israel strikes a crowded Gaza neighborhood |
| Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated district in Gaza, leaving behind a massive crater and widespread damage. Israel said the targets were Hamas militants, including a commander who helped plan the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel that killed 1,400 people. |
| The Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, said the strikes in the Jabaliya neighborhood, home to the largest of Gaza’s eight refugee camps, had killed and wounded “hundreds,” but that could not be immediately verified. A doctor at a nearby hospital said the facility was receiving hundreds of injured people and that dozens were dead. |
| The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck at Ibrahim Biari, who it has called a key plotter of the Oct. 7 massacre, and “a large number of terrorists.” A spokesman for Hamas denied that any of its commanders had been in the area. |
| Israeli repeated its warning that civilians should move south, as its ground troops and tanks edged closer to Gaza City. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said Israeli forces were in a neighborhood north of the city and were trying to “separate the northern Gaza Strip from its south.” |
| Humanitarian officials warned of a growing catastrophe for Gaza’s civilians. The top U.N. official for humanitarian and relief affairs said in a statement that “people are becoming increasingly desperate, as they search for food, water and shelter amid the relentless bombing campaign that is wiping out whole families and entire neighborhoods.” |
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| Yemen’s Houthi militia, which is backed by Iran, said it had launched missiles and drones toward southern Israel. |
| The director of the New York office of the U.N.’s human rights agency resigned, criticizing the agency and calling the Israeli strikes “genocide.” |
 Russian authorities did not provide details of the killings, saying only that they involved a “conflict on domestic grounds.”Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA, via Shutterstock |
| Russia detains soldiers suspected of killing civilians |
| Two Russian soldiers were detained in connection with the killing of nine people, including two children, in Ukrainian territory held by Moscow, the Russian authorities said. It was a rare admission by Russia that its forces may have committed crimes against Ukrainian civilians. |
| The killings, which were also reported by Ukrainian officials, took place last week in Volnovakha, a small city in southeastern Ukraine that was seized by Russian forces shortly after the start of their full-scale invasion last year. Images released on Monday by Ukraine showed a gruesome murder scene, with several people shot dead in their beds. |
| Analysis: Human rights groups say that Russian soldiers in Ukraine have regularly committed atrocities against civilians. Experts questioned whether investigators would actually try to solve this case, warning that the detentions may only be intended to give the impression that Moscow is concerned about such crimes. |
 Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the nationalist Law and Justice party, spoke to supporters last month.Sean Gallup/Getty Images |
| Poland’s Law and Justice party casts doubt on election |
| Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice party was voted out of power last month. But the party’s appointees, who are in control of public broadcasting, the judiciary and other institutions, are fighting to hang on to their jobs. They are promoting wild conspiracy theories to explain, and in some cases deny, Law and Justice’s defeat at the polls. |
| While one expert said he didn’t expect to “see scenes of January 6 in Poland,” referring to the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021, others predicted a long, drawn-out struggle by Law and Justice appointees to resist being replaced by more neutral, or at least less brazenly partisan, figures. |
| Background: After it took power in 2015, Law and Justice began remaking the political system to try to ensure its supporters would remain deeply entrenched, no matter the results of future elections. One commentator said the task faced by the liberals who won the election was “like dismantling a very complicated and potentially deadly bomb.” |
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| Searching for peace through music |
| The Barenboim-Said Academy, a music conservatory in Berlin, was founded with the intention of bringing together students from across the Middle East. |
| Like other peace projects, the academy has long had to deal with the volatility of the Middle East. But in an environment where Israelis, Palestinians, Iranians, Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese and others study and live together, the Israel-Hamas war is testing their ideals. Some students questioned whether they should even play music with one another right now. Others say it has brought them closer. |
| Katia Abdel Kader, 23, a Palestinian violinist, said the program would not solve the world’s problems. “But we create a space, and that’s what is missing in the world, not only in the Middle East,” she said. “Places for people to be accepted by the other.” |
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