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- Homeless and Hungry, Gazans Fear a Repeat of 1948 History — nyt News
- A World War II Dispute Between Ukraine and Poland Is Put to Rest — nyt News
Homeless and Hungry, Gazans Fear a Repeat of 1948 History
Source: nyt News • Published: 9/7/2025, 9:31:13 AM
Reporting from Jerusalem and Cairo
The night was warm and lovely as the Abu Samra family gathered outside their home in northern Gaza in September 2023, the smell of mint from the garden filling the air.
As always, the family patriarch recounted how, as a 10-year-old in 1948, he was forced from his village in what is now Israel, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced in what they call the Nakba — "the catastrophe."
The patriarch, Abdallah Abu Samra, had told the story often, each time focusing on different details to ensure his family would remember them. One day, he hoped, they would all return.
Within weeks, that prospect seemed more distant than ever.
Hamas waged its surprise attack on Israel, storming across the border on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people — most of them civilians, according to the Israeli government — and seizing about 250 others as hostages. Israel then launched its war in Gaza, killing tens of thousands and leaving generations of Palestinians to experience displacement and hunger, and the fear that they would never see their homes again.
The Abu Samra family and many other Gazans say they have always lived in the shadow of the Nakba. And from the first moments of the war, as Israeli warplanes started dropping bombs and fliers ordering mass evacuations, their worries of another Nakba rose.
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A World War II Dispute Between Ukraine and Poland Is Put to Rest
Source: nyt News • Published: 9/7/2025, 8:15:24 AM
After 80 years, they received the dignified burials they were denied in the final days of World War II, when their bodies were tipped into a mass grave.
The remains of the 42 people found outside a now-abandoned ethnic Polish village in western Ukraine were reburied Saturday in individual caskets, each topped with blue wildflowers — this time with a priest intoning prayers and Polish government officials in attendance.
For their descendants, the ceremony brought closure to family history. For Ukraine, it was intended to put to rest a long-festering dispute with Poland, a critical ally in the war with Russia, over history and World War II-era massacres.
After the Soviet breakup, Poland accused Ukraine of sweeping a record of war crimes by the Ukrainian underground of the mid-20th century under the rug. In Ukraine, members of the Ukrainian nationalist movement have been elevated to the status of heroes who paved the way for the country's eventual independence in 1991.
Ukraine and Poland argued for the past decade over exhuming mass graves in western Poland. But Ukraine, now desperate for Western military aid that flows through Poland, agreed last year to allow the effort to go forward. Another site was exhumed last week. A dozen others are planned.
"The only country that will be happy with tensions between Ukraine and Poland is Russia," Andriy Nadzhos, a deputy Ukrainian Minister of Culture, said in an interview. "We don't want to give Russia this gift."
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