SAM MEDNICK

Israel and Palestinian Territories correspondent

Mednick is the AP correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She focuses on conflict, humanitarian crises and human rights abuses. Mednick formerly covered West & Central Africa and South Sudan.
Relatives of hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, stand by the Israe-Gaza border fence, calling for their release and expressing concerns that the resumption of fighting in Gaza puts their loved ones at risk, in southern Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Families of hostages in Gaza are terrified they won’t return after Israel resumes fighting
 
A dead person killed during an Israeli army strike is taken into the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday March 18, 2025.(AP Photo/ Mohammad Jahjouh)
Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire talks stall
 
A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Can technology help more survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan?
 
A worker turns excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara, South Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew
 
Somali internally-displaced persons (IDP) children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
 
An Israeli flag is draped over the Microsoft offices in a building in the Gav Yam technology park in Beersheba, Israel, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech’s role in warfare
 
How US tech giants’ AI is changing the face of warfare in Gaza and Lebanon
 
Eitan Gonen, whose daughter Romi was abducted by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli father says even in Hamas captivity, his daughter heard his pleas to come home alive
 
Israeli female soldier hostages wave and react at a Palestinian crowd before being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)
Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds
 
Dania Hanatsheh, right, a former Palestinian prisoner who was released from an Israeli prison as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, poses for a photo at a reception for released prisoners, West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Freedom is bittersweet for Palestinians released from Israeli jails
 
Demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
As ceasefire takes hold, Hamas returns 3 Israeli hostages and Israel frees 90 Palestinian prisoners
 
Balloons are released to mark the second birthday of hostage Kfir Bibas as demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Netanyahu says Israel has retained ‘right to return to fighting if needed’
 
Yifat Zailer, whose cousin Shiri Bibas and Bibas' husband and sons were taken hostage by Hamas militants, weeps during an interview at her home in Herziliyya, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Gaza truce gives Israelis and Palestinians hope but may not end their suffering
 
Israeli soldiers overlook the Gaza Strip from a tank, as seen from southern Israel, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Some Israeli soldiers refuse to keep fighting in Gaza
 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel helps former soldier leave Brazil over investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza
 
Children watch as the bodies of victims from overnight Israeli army strikes at multiple locations in the central Gaza Strip are laid together for funeral prayers, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. According to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, 30 people, including 10 women and 7 children, were killed in several attacks overnight in central Gaza. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli strikes kill at least 42 in Gaza as ceasefire talks set to resume in Qatar
 
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of a campaign to eradicate the disease in central London, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease a top mission
 
A Palestinian man sits mourning relatives killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the Maghazi refugee camp, at Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel detains the director of one of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals during a raid
 
A man sits by the body of a Palestinian killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A baby froze to death overnight in Gaza as Israel and Hamas trade accusations of ceasefire delays
 
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand for a minute of silence Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, after Macron declared a day of national mourning for the lives lost when Cyclone Chido ripped through the Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, Pool)
France observes a day of mourning for victims of Cyclone Chido in its Mayotte territory off Africa
 
Women wait in line at a water distribution point in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Destructive Cyclone Chido unearths a rift between locals and migrants in France’s Mayotte
 
A girl walks amidst destruction in Mbouyougou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
France’s Mayotte struggles to recover as cyclone overwhelms hospitals
 
Women wash clothes after a short rain filled their pots with water, at the Lycée des Lumières where they found shelter after losing their homes, in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 . (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Crowds in Mayotte vent frustration with cyclone response as Macron tours devastation
 
A young girl walks in the Kaweni slum on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, after Cyclone Chido. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
France’s Macron says tour of cyclone-devastated Mayotte is a day he won’t forget
 
A woman carrying her belongings walks past debris after Cyclone Chido in the Kaweni slum Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Survivors recount ‘very apocalyptic’ cyclone that ripped through French territory of Mayotte
 
Deforestation is visible near the Muchacha mine in November 2020, near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Congo. (AP Photo)
Chinese gold mining threatens a protected UN heritage site in Congo
 
Deforestation is visible near the Muchacha mine in September 2022 near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Congo. (AP Photo)
Takeaways from AP’s report on Chinese gold mining threatening endangered protected site in Congo
 
Ousmane Taher and his family cross from Sudan into Chad near Acre Sunday, Oct 6. 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
They fled war in Sudan. But they haven’t been able to flee the hunger
 
FILE -France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Louise Mushikiwabo, center, welcome Chad's President General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno for the 19th Francophonie summit in Villers-Cotterets, France, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
Chad ends a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler
 
A woman who fled war in Sudan and requested anonymity because she feared retribution after reporting sexual exploitation, holds her injured arm in a refugee camp in Adre, Chad, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
UN investigates sexual exploitation allegations against aid workers in Chad following AP story
 
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