Representatives of the Trump administration met with senior Hamas officials at a walled-off compound in Doha, Qatar three times in early March Here's our behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary talks w/@ronenbergman https://t.co/sz7jqad56M

The only way for almost all people in Gaza to escape the horrors of the war is by leaving via Egypt And that is often a complicated & expensive ordeal, involving the hefty payments to an Egyptian firm that can get Palestinians on an approved travel list

A major issue in cease-fire talks: How can people displaced from northern Gaza go back? w/@ewong https://t.co/Tzug9GgDt8

Congress has reached a deal to ban US funding to UNRWA, the main U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians in Gaza, through March 2025 w/ @adamrasgon https://t.co/NgdDVy27QI

2/2 Since the start of the war, their jobs have become among the most dangerous in Gaza, but also among the most important.

1/2 Some 50 engineers and technicians at Paltel, one of two Palestinian cell service providers in Gaza, have been crisscrossing the enclave to reinstate service in neighborhoods that have been plunged into blackouts for days and even weeks. https://t.co/Ni5HCGnpLg

Great to be back at the Times!

2/2 Speaking from an Emirati royal palace, Dahlan outlined a plan under which Israel and Hamas would hand power to a new and independent Palestinian leader who could rebuild Gaza under the protection of an Arab peacekeeping force

1/2 In an interview, Mohammed Dahlan, a close adviser to the UAE president and an exiled Palestinian politician, provided public insight into the types of postwar plans that Arab leaders are privately discussing w/@PatrickKingsley https://t.co/aNbFBqngjL

Qatar is engaged in high-level talks w/ Hamas to deliver prescription medicines to Israeli hostages in Gaza at the same time it is making progress w/ Israel about allowing more medicine into the enclave for Gazans, officials say. My latest for @nytimes https://t.co/l7B9tGC5dt

In 2023, FP published a number of political profiles, many which focused on people vying for power or working for change. Here are five profiles worth revisiting:

3/3 For @NewYorker, I wrote about Halabi and other Palestinians in Gaza experiencing displacement, hunger and loss. https://t.co/1zgBoncPfH

2/3 “Mohammed is a humanitarian, and he wouldn’t accept what happened," Halabi said, referring to his son Mohammed and Hamas's October 7 attack. In rare public criticism of Hamas, Halabi, a seventy-year-old retired UN official, called the militant group's assault “unacceptable".

🧵 1/3 I recently asked Khalil el-Halabi, the father of a well-known Palestinian prisoner, if he hoped for his son to be released in the event that talks btwn Israel & Hamas lead to more swaps. He responded: “I swear to God that I don’t want my son to be liberated in this way."

As Israel’s ground invasion has expanded into southern Gaza, displaced families have been forced to move again and again. Over the past two weeks, I spoke to people in Khan Younis and Rafah about the dire situation there. My latest for the @NewYorker https://t.co/1zgBoncPfH

When Israel told more than a million Gaza residents to leave the densely populated north, Kamal Al-Mashharawi’s family reluctantly fled to the south. A new interactive report charts their perilous journey.

7/7 Here's the full story of Kamal's journey. (It's an interactive.) It was a team effort to put this piece together. It wouldn't have been possible without @ByDanielAGross, @samwolson and @david_kofahl https://t.co/VONQIVQMPW

6/7 After arriving at a family friend's home in Khan Younis, Kamal said he felt he was "born anew." "I feel that I’m now like a child, like I’ve come out of death and into survival."

5/7 But on November 14, they escaped back to the south by foot and donkey. "Despite the gunfire and bombings, we survived. I can’t believe it. Are we living?" Kamal said. He is holding the white flag below.

4/7 Early last week, Israeli forces were nearing al-Shifa hospital, and Kamal's family was still stuck at home. They feared for their lives as gun battles between Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants raged in their neighborhood.