Miriam Berger

Jerusalem

Reporter covering Middle East, International news

Education: Wesleyan University, BA in College Social Studies ; Oxford University, MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Miriam Berger, a staff writer on The Post's international news desk in Washington, has since Oct. 7 been on assignment in Jerusalem, where she covers Israel, the Palestinian territories and the war in Gaza. Before joining The Post, she was based in Jerusalem and Cairo and was a freelance reporter in the Middle East and parts of Africa and Central Asia. She has a master's degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University and is a former Fulbright research fellow in Egypt.
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Latest from Miriam Berger

New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing

The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis shows clashes had subsided and protesters had retreated.

September 11, 2024

Palestinians honor U.S. activist killed in West Bank at memorial procession

Aysenur Eygi was killed at a protest in the West Bank. The closure of West Bank-Jordan land crossings has complicated efforts to repatriate her body to Turkey.

September 9, 2024
Palestinian security forces carry the body of Turkish American activist Aysenur Eygi during a memorial procession in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday.

Gunman kills 3 Israelis in rare attack at border crossing with Jordan

The shooting by a Jordanian gunman at the Allenby Bridge was the deadliest on record at the border crossing. In response, Israel shut down land crossings with Jordan.

September 8, 2024

Palestinians interview witnesses to U.S. woman’s West Bank killing

Two witnesses said Aysenur Eygi, 26, was shot in the head by Israeli forces. Eyewitnesses said evidence gathering was underway after Eygi’s death.

September 7, 2024
Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas speaks in front of the bodies of Turkish American Aysenur Eygi and 13-year-old Palestinian Bana Laboum at a hospital morgue in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

Israeli forces leave trail of destruction in Jenin after days-long raid

Israel said it killed 14 militants during the operation, which was one of its longest in the occupied territory in years.

September 6, 2024
The Israeli military withdrew from Jenin early Friday.

Israeli evacuation orders force displaced Gazans into ever-smaller spaces

Israeli evacuation orders in August have shrunk Gaza’s only humanitarian zone by nearly a third and deepened the plight of displaced Palestinians.

August 30, 2024

West Bank village mourns resident killed in settler attack

The attack late Thursday in Jit in the northern West Bank was the latest in a string of assaults by settlers on Palestinian communities.

August 16, 2024
Moawieh Sadah walks through a home that was burned and vandalized by Jewish settlers in Jit.

More than 40,000 killed in Israel’s war in Gaza, Health Ministry says

The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but aid workers and experts say the 40,000 figure is probably an undercount.

August 15, 2024
Palestinians mourn Monday over the body of a relative who was killed in an Israeli strike before their funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Disease was spreading in Gaza. Now there’s polio in the sewage.

Israel’s war in Gaza has destroyed its water and sanitation infrastructure, leaving sewage in the streets as a breeding ground for infectious diseases.

August 13, 2024
Sewage water flooded the streets of Khan Younis, Gaza on June 30 as the World Health Organization warned of the high risk of polio virus spreading.

How an Israeli hostage rescue that left scores of Palestinians dead unfolded

A review of videos of the June 8 raid in Nuseirat shows the Israeli military employed heavy airstrikes on a dense residential area for nearly four hours

August 13, 2024