International News Editor Michael K. Lavers will be on assignment in Israel through Oct. 9. Lavers will be in the country on Oct.
7, a year after Hamas launched its surprise attack against Israel, and will cover how the country’s LGBTQ community has coped with that horrible day and its ongoing aftermath.
Lavers will also cover how the war in the Gaza Strip has impacted LGBTQ Palestinians — in both Gaza and the West Bank and among the Palestinian diaspora in the U.S.
Lavers arrived in Israel three days after Iran launched upwards of 200 ballistic missiles at the country. An Israeli airstrike in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on Sept.