Ethnic conflicts
FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, members of the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles drive with signs reading: "#Stop Asian Hate," in a caravan around Koreatown to denounce hate against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles. After more than a year filled with attacks on Asian Americans unfairly blamed for the coronavirus, a majority of Americans across racial and ethnic groups believe anti-Asian American discrimination has worsened over the last year. A poll from the The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds nearly half of Americans believe Asian Americans encounter "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of discrimination. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
AP-NORC poll: More Americans believe anti-Asian hate rising

By Terry Tang And Hannah Fingerhut May. 26, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

A crater full of water and sewage remains where the home of Ramez al-Masri was destroyed by an air-strike prior to a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Beit Hanoun, the northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
After another war, displaced in Gaza face familiar plight

By Fares Akram May. 24, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

Lynn Hastings, of Canada, United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory speaks during a news conference at their compound following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Israeli police escort Jews to flashpoint Jerusalem site

By Joseph Krauss May. 23, 2021 02:15 PM EDT

People clean the streets of debris beside a building that was previously damaged in an air-strike following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Egyptian mediators hold talks to firm up Israel-Hamas truce

By Wafaa Shurafa And Samy Magdy May. 22, 2021 07:37 AM EDT

Muslim protesters shout slogans supporting Palestinians during a rally against Israel's attacks on Gaza, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Indonesia Muslims protest at US Embassy over Israel strikes

By Niniek Karmini And Fadlan Syam May. 21, 2021 05:29 AM EDT

An Israeli soldier sits on top of a tank at a staging ground near the border with Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, May 21, 2021. A cease-fire took effect early Friday after 11 days of heavy fighting between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers that was ignited by protests and clashes in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Palestinians see victory in Gaza truce as Israel warns Hamas

By Fares Akram And Joseph Krauss May. 21, 2021 02:12 AM EDT

President Joe Biden arrives to speak about a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, in the Cross Hall of the White House, Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Hour-by-hour: Biden's behind-the-scenes push for cease-fire

By Aamer Madhani May. 21, 2021 01:27 AM EDT

A Palestinian man inspects the damage of his home following Israeli airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Heavy airstrikes pummeled a street in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, destroying ramshackle homes with corrugated metal roofs nearby. The military said it struck two underground launchers in the camp used to fire rockets at Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire to end bloody 11-day war

By Josef Federman And Fares Akram May. 20, 2021 04:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 17, 2021, file photo, Palestinians receive treatment at the Shifa Hospital for their wounds caused by an Israeli airstrike airstrike that destroyed the upper floors of a commercial building and caused damage to the nearby Health Ministry and prime health care clinic, in Gaza City. The Gaza Strip's already feeble health system is being brought to its knees by the fourth war in just over a decade. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
Gaza's health system buckling under repeated wars, blockade

By Fares Akram And Aya Batrawy May. 19, 2021 05:20 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:25 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 19 The Boston Globe on U.S. aid to Israel should...

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 18, 2021. filer, rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip to Israel. The deaths of two Thai migrant farm workers in Israel in a rocket attack from Gaza cast fresh light on the difficult lives thousands of their countrymen face far from their homes. It is not unusual for Thais from their country’s economically disadvantaged rural areas to seek work abroad at wages considerably better than they could earn at home. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
Thais killed by rocket in Israel part of large workforce

By Grant Peck May. 19, 2021 11:10 AM EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a briefing to ambassadors to Israel at the Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)
Israel's Netanyahu 'determined' to continue Gaza operation

By Fares Akram And Joseph Krauss May. 19, 2021 02:55 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 16, 2021, file photo, a Palestinian man carries Suzy Ishkontana, 7, who was rescued from under the rubble of a destroyed house following deadly Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. Suzy and her father Riad were the only survivors of their family after an Israeli airstrike destroyed one of the buildings they lived in in Gaza City early Sunday, killing her mother and four siblings. The man and his daughter were pulled alive from under the rubble after several hours. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
Gaza children bearing the brunt in Israel-Hamas conflict

By Fares Akram May. 18, 2021 05:32 PM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks after a tour of the Ford Rouge EV Center, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Israel, Gaza violence overshadows Biden's domestic plans

By Jonathan Lemire, Darlene Superville And Josh Boak May. 18, 2021 01:54 PM EDT

A protester stands under a large Palestinian flag during an anti-Israel rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Pro-Palestinian protesters marched to the heavily guarded embassy on Tuesday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Indonesians protest at US Embassy over Israeli airstrikes

By Niniek Karmini And Fadlan Syam May. 18, 2021 03:32 AM EDT

A Palestinian man inspects the damage of a house destroyed by an early morning Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building in downtown Gaza City, and Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel early Tuesday, the latest in the fourth war between the two sides, now in its second week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Palestinians go on strike as Israel-Hamas fighting rages

By Fares Akram And Ravi Nessman May. 18, 2021 02:31 AM EDT

Israeli security forces and emergency services work on a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Saturday, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli warplanes stage more heavy strikes across Gaza City

By Fares Akram And Ravi Nessman May. 16, 2021 02:11 PM EDT

Israeli exhibitors receive visitors at their stand on the opening day of the Arabian Travel Market exhibition, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, May 16, 2021. As violence flares within Israel and on a day in which Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City killed at least 42 people Sunday, it was business as usual for a senior Israeli tourism official in Dubai as she promoted the country as a must-see destination for Muslim visitors. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
A tough sell: In Dubai amid clash, Israel promotes tourism

By Aya Batrawy May. 16, 2021 01:01 PM EDT

Palestinian demonstrators take cover during clashes with Israeli forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, May 14, 2021. Health officials say several Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire, at protests that took place in several locations across the West Bank of Friday. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
West Bank erupts in protest amid more Israel-Hamas fighting

By Fares Akram And Lee Keath May. 14, 2021 09:38 AM EDT

Bangladeshi Muslims protesting against Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, gather after Eid al-Fitr prayers in front of Baitul Mukarram Mosque and wave Palestinian and Bangladeshi flags in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
The Latest: Israeli airstrike on Gaza house kills at least 7

The Associated Press May. 14, 2021 07:55 AM EDT