NPR Mideast correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israel still requires a military escort.

Architects, urban planners and historians describe devastation that goes beyond physical eradication of infrastructure to undermine the identity of the Palestinian people

Israeli killings continue in Gaza and the occupied West Bank as Hamas recovers body of soldier reported killed in 2014.

With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

Palestinians fetch water in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, Oct. 28, 2025. Palestinians may have to wait hours for a small amount of water, which is largely unavailable due to damage to water networks caused by Israeli bombing during the war. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

As of Saturday, Israel had returned the bodies of 300 Palestinians to Gaza, of which only 89 have been identified, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The body returned from Gaza on Sunday has been identified as Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in Gaza in 2014, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, Gaza health officials said Saturday, as both sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire.

Vatican City — Pope Leo XIV met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, and the two men discussed the urgent need to provide assistance to civilians in Gaza and to pursue a two-state solution to end the conflict in the region.