Ruby Mellen

Washington, D.C.

Staff Writer, Foreign desk

Education: Columbia University, BA in English and History, 2015

Ruby Mellen is an international affairs and visual enterprise reporter for The Washington Post's foreign desk. She works with photography, video, and graphics to write and bring together visually compelling stories happening around the world.
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Latest from Ruby Mellen

‘Israel’s SNL’ provides much-needed laughs to a traumatized nation

Politicians, media figures and hostages are fair game on “Eretz Nehederet,” Israel’s most popular sketch comedy show — but criticism of the war in Gaza is off-limits.

January 16, 2024

    Siberia’s ice is melting, revealing its past and endangering its future

    Sheets of the softening land have emerged for the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, revealing skeletons, disease and awakening life.

    January 3, 2024

    Israel’s high court strikes down Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul law

    Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul the judiciary sparked nearly a year of widespread social unrest before the Israel-Gaza war.

    January 1, 2024

    Israel announces withdrawal of some troops from Gaza

    Israel’s planned withdrawal of five brigades from Gaza could include several thousand soldiers.

    January 1, 2024

    Findings in hostage killings, Gaza deaths put Israeli tactics in focus

    The IDF investigations address the main points of criticism of the Israeli campaign, both domestically and internationally.

    December 29, 2023

    Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, exempt from military service, now enlisting

    Two thousand Haredim have applied, sometimes quietly, to avoid drawing attention, to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.

    December 28, 2023

    Israel’s war in Gaza threatens to spill into Lebanon and beyond

    Iranian-allied groups around the region are increasingly targeting U.S. and Israeli assets.

    December 27, 2023

    Hostage families return to Beeri as pressure builds for new releases

    Survivors and hostages families from the destroyed kibbutz returned on Wednesday to call attention to the plight of those still held by Hamas in Gaza.

    December 20, 2023

    Israeli officials to meet with hostage families, group says

    Three hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were carrying a makeshift white flag when a soldier opened fire, a senior Israeli military official said Saturday.

    December 17, 2023

    Hostages in Gaza killed by Israeli military while carrying white flag

    The deaths of the three hostages underscored the perilous risks to civilians in Gaza, where Israel is waging a war against Hamas militants.

    December 16, 2023