Peter Kenyon

Latest news on the Israel-Hamas war, where the humanitarian situation is growing evermore dire in Gaza and Israelis are rallying to pressure their government to help free the hostages held by Hamas.

In Israel, families of some of the more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its deadly Oct. 7 attack concluded a march across the country from Tel Aviv to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem.

The Israeli military said its troops went into the main hospital complex in Gaza City overnight — where conditions for patients and medical staff have been growing increasingly desperate.

The U.N. and World Health Organization pleaded in a joint statement for "decisive international action" to preserve what's left of the health care system in Gaza.

Still reeling from the shock of the Oct. 7 attacks by the militant group Hamas, ordinary Israelis are looking for ways to help the war effort.

Families of those whose loved ones have been taken hostage by the militant group Hamas watch and wait in fear as prospects for an Israeli ground invasion into Gaza grow.

The Egypt Gaza border opens briefly to allow a trickle of much needed aid in, but it is a drop in the ocean for the thousands of Palestinians stuck there.

Aid groups in the Gaza Strip are warning that the enclave is near complete collapse. Gaza is under an Israeli siege that is blocking basic humanitarian needs from getting in.

The death toll is rising. At least 1,300 Israelis and more than 2,600 Palestinians in Gaza are dead as the war continues into a second week.

Israel says it is preparing to invade Gaza with ground forces but the timeline is unclear.

Israel's military said that it would continue to allow Gazans to evacuate south as hundreds of thousands had already moved. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed more than 2,600 Palestinians.

The latest developments from Israel, where the Israeli military continued airstrikes on Gaza and staged limited raids overnight.

Hamas leaders have called for nearby countries to join them in a war against Israel. The response has been mixed.

Many leaders in the Middle East are urging calm as a war breaks out in Israel, but there are street protests in parts of the Muslim world.

Israel's military said it is still fighting Hamas militants in southern Israel after they broke through the Gaza border to launch an unprecedented wave of attacks. Israel responded with air strikes.

As prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, wins this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her husband tells NPR her award is for all Iranian women.

More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians have fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia. The country is struggling with the sudden loss of the self-declared autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Nearly the entire ethnic-Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled to neighboring Armenia after Azerbaijan assumed control of the enclave.

Protests continue in the Armenian capital Yerevan after the collapse of the breakaway government of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Five Americans incarcerated in Iran are on their way home as Washington and Tehran implement a prisoner exchange deal announced in August.