Jack Jeffery
Jack Jeffery is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Jack Jeffery
On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages
By Jack Jeffery — March 11, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has provided few details ahead of this year’s Ramadan.
Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis
By Wafaa Shurafa, Lee Keath, and Jack Jeffery — November 17, 2023
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 11,470 Palestinians have been killed, two-thirds of them women and minors, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Israel searches for traces of Hamas in raid of key Gaza hospital packed with patients
By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy, and Jack Jeffery — November 15, 2023
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas and Gaza health officials deny militants operate in Shifa, and Palestinians and rights groups say Israel has recklessly endangered civilians as it seeks to eradicate Hamas.
After weeks in besieged Gaza, some foreign nationals and wounded Palestinians are allowed to leave
By Najib Jobain, Lee Keath, and Jack Jeffery — November 1, 2023
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The isolated Palestinian enclave, home to 2.3 million people, is in the grip of a severe humanitarian crisis.
Confusion over Iran’s religious police as women drop hijab
By Jack Jeffery — December 6, 2022
(AP) — The morality police, established in 2005, are tasked with enforcing Iran’s restrictions on public behavior and strict dress codes — particularly on women, who are required to wear the hijab, or headscarf, and loose-fitting clothes.
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