Shashank Bengali is a senior editor at The New York Times and leads the live news team in London. He joined The Times in 2021 after nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent, Washington correspondent and editor at The Los Angeles Times and McClatchy Newspapers.
He was the South Asia bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times from 2014-2018, based in Mumbai, India, and opened that paper’s Singapore bureau in 2019. He has reported from more than 60 countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including numerous stints covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2016, Mr. Bengali shared in a Pulitzer Prize for The Los Angeles Times's coverage of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif. He is also the recipient of a Sigma Delta Chi award for foreign correspondence, a South Asian Journalists Association award for enterprise reporting and a National Headliner Award. He began his career at The Kansas City Star and has also written for Playboy and Monocle magazines.
Raised in the Los Angeles area, Mr. Bengali studied at the University of Southern California and at Harvard University, where he earned a master’s degree in public policy.
The money from Washington, which includes $5 billion to replenish Israel’s defenses and $1 billion for Gazan civilians, comes as Israel readies to invade Rafah.
By Matt Surman, Michael Levenson, Christopher F. Schuetze and Nick Cumming-Bruce
This was featured in live coverage.
By Nick Cumming-Bruce and Shashank Bengali
Before a U.S. resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for a cease-fire in Gaza was vetoed on Friday, the U.S. had vetoed three previous ones demanding a halt to the fighting.
By Shashank Bengali
The warning came amid an Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to send military and humanitarian officials to Washington to hear the Biden administration’s concerns.
By Gaya Gupta, Shashank Bengali and Thomas Fuller
“I saw people falling to the ground after being shot,” said one witness, “and others simply took the food items that were with them and continued running for their lives.”
By Raja Abdulrahim, Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Adam Rasgon and Michael Levenson
The British foreign secretary and the governments of India, South Africa and Brazil were among those denouncing the melee surrounding an aid convoy in northern Gaza that left scores of Palestinians dead.
By Shashank Bengali and John Eligon
With the approach of Ramadan, as well as protests by hostage families and a threatened Palestinian march on the Aqsa mosque, pressure is rising to reach a deal.
By Vivian Yee, Hwaida Saad and Michael Levenson
This was featured in live coverage.
By Hwaida Saad and Shashank Bengali
Many civilians in Rafah are sheltering in rickety tents made of plastic and wood and say there is nowhere left in Gaza to avoid Israeli shelling.
By Aaron Boxerman, Iyad Abuheweila, Hiba Yazbek and Michael Levenson
This was featured in live coverage.
By Johnatan Reiss, Adam Sella and Shashank Bengali