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Julia Frankel

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests. (John MacDougall / AFP)
March 21, 2026, 4:56 pm
Wave of executions feared in Iran as authorities hang 3 young men nabbed in protests
Rights groups say victims include star wrestler, 19, who said in court he was tortured into confessing to killing a cop during regime’s brutal crackdown in January
By Lee Keath, Julia Frankel and Sarah El Deeb
Palestinians who traveled to South Africa via a charter flight organized by an Israeli group stand in their temporary flat in Johannesburg, South Africa, February 4, 2026. (AP/Jerome Delay)
March 15, 2026, 5:17 pm
Israeli group was behind mysterious flights of Gazans to South Africa, report claims
Associated Press investigation based on documents, dozens of interviews finds Ad Kan group championed resettlement of Palestinians and attempted to hide Israeli involvement
By SAM MEDNICK, Julia Frankel, TOQA EZZIDIN and JAMES POLLARD
An image of an apparent American Tomahawk cruise missile about to strike a girls' school in Iran's Minab during opening strikes of the Iran war on February 28, 2026. (Screenshot: Mehr News/X)
March 9, 2026, 3:14 pm
New clip further implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls’ school
Footage aired by Iranian media, confirmed by multiple third-party investigators, shows building hit by Tomahawk cruise missile, which only the US is known to possess in this war
By Julia Frankel
Hali Norei shows a picture of her 23-year-old niece Robina Aminian as she gives an interview alongside her partner Nezar Minoei, in Oslo, Norway, January 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Bjornar Verpeide)
January 17, 2026, 11:48 am
Family of Iranian protester searched for body in pile of corpses, buried her on a roadside
Friends of Robina Aminian, 23, told family she was shot in back of the head at close range during Tehran rally; mother ‘looked through so many beautiful faces’ before finding her
By Sarah El Deeb and Julia Frankel
Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village in the West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
January 11, 2026, 7:40 pm
Fleeing settler violence, Palestinians leave one of few remaining Jordan Valley hamlets
Dozens of families from the Bedouin town of Ras Ein el-Auja have already left their homes, and the remaining residents are desperate. ‘Where will we go? There’s nowhere.’
By Julia Frankel
Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
June 17, 2025, 6:19 pm
How Israel used spies, smuggled drones and AI to stun and hobble Iran
The opening salvo of the Israel-Iran war was the ‘culmination of years of work,’ Israeli intelligence and military officials say, sharing a glimpse behind the scenes
By Julia Frankel and SAM MEDNICK
Alaa Hamami prepares a meal while her 10-year-old daughter, Basant, sits inside their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 30, 2024, 11:23 am
Packed into squalid tent camps, Gazan women struggle to live without privacy
With limited access to menstrual products, the proximity of men, and constant fear of needing to flee, displaced women feel they ‘have become exposed to the public’
By WAFAA SHURAFA and Julia Frankel
The remains of a house in what used to be the young people's section of Kibbutz Kfar Aza are seen on September 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
October 7, 2024, 4:24 pm
Scattered by October 7, Kfar Aza’s residents wonder if they can ever go home again
Members of close-knit community, nearly empty after being shattered in Hamas terror onslaught, are still buffeted by vulnerability and anger: ‘Are we going to live in a memorial?’
By Julia Frankel
US Army soldiers gesture as trucks loaded with humanitarian aid arrive at the US-built floating pier Trident before reaching the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
June 26, 2024, 6:44 pm
Journalists tour American aid pier in Gaza as it resumes operations
US says its learning and improving as it launches another attempt to operate the pier, after sea conditions left structure unusable for weeks
By Leo Correa, AMI BEN TOV and Julia Frankel
Franciscan friars and sisters pray during a mass for the Feast of the Ascension on The Rock of the Ascension at The Chapel of the Ascension in Jerusalem on May 20, 2020. The Feast of the Ascension commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 24, 2024, 8:37 am
Churches protest Israel’s demand they pay property tax, say it’s undoing status quo
Though they’re major landowners, churches traditionally were exempt from property taxes; leaders call warning letters a ‘coordinated attack’ on Christian presence in Holy Land
By Julia Frankel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 10, 2024, 5:31 pm
With their jobs on the line, Biden and Netanyahu tested to push through fraught ties
US president acting more assertively to rein in Rafah op, which PM sees as key to his own political survival, but Biden aides assert ties will not be fully broken on his watch
By AAMER MADHANI, Zeke Miller and Julia Frankel
Extremist settler Yinon Levi attends a Knesset Economic Committee meeting after he was sanctioned by the US government, in Jerusalem, February 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2024, 11:51 am
US fundraisers for violent West Bank settlers raise thousands, despite sanctions
Experts warn that anyone who donates money to a sanctioned person or group puts themself at risk, after the US and UK slap restrictions on seven Israelis accused of violent attacks
By Julia Frankel
Yuval Haran, whose family is celebrating the return of his mother, his sister, and four others from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, poses for a portrait with a picture on his phone of his family's hostage posters, in Herziliya, December 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
December 10, 2023, 5:13 am
After weeks in Hamas tunnels, some freed child hostages still speaking in whispers
Families, physicians and psychologists describe toll taken on those held in Gaza after being abducted on October 7: ‘What these children have gone through is simply unimaginable’
By Julia Frankel, ADAM GELLER and Tim Sullivan
Israeli volunteers offer haircuts to Israeli soldiers based near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, October 16, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 17, 2023, 8:57 am
Still split over nation’s leadership, gutted Israelis unite around war against Hamas
In a small country where everybody seems to know a victim of October 7 massacre, even those deeply distrustful of the government and army are gearing up to fight Gazan terror
By Julia Frankel
Bassem Awadallah, one of two former officials accused of helping Jordanian Prince Hamzah try to overthrow his half-brother King Abdullah II, appears on a mobile phone screen as he attends a verdict hearing at a state security court, in Amman, Jordan, on July 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)
September 15, 2023, 10:15 pm
Jordan rejects US request to release ex-official accused of plot against king
Bassem Awadallah, a dual Jordanian-American citizen, has spent over 2 years in jail after conviction in what he says was a sham trial in which he was robbed of due process
By Julia Frankel
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