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Gaza children fly kites to escape horrors of war

Metres away from the concrete and steel fence separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt, 11-year-old Malak Ayad flies a paper kite high in the sky -- a...

31.03.2024 5

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'Worse than hell': Gazans caught in Al-Shifa hospital raid

Around the Gaza Strip's besieged largest hospital, Palestinians have witnessed constant bombardment, mass arrests, tanks and corpses littering the...

23.03.2024 4

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Rafah displaced shiver as thunder and rain lash tent camp

Torrential rains lashed a tent camp for displaced people in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, where frightened Palestinian children can no longer...

20.03.2024 5

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Gaza hunger warnings grow as hopes build for ceasefire

Efforts to hammer out a temporary truce in Gaza intensified Tuesday after months of war that have left parts of the devastated territory facing...

19.03.2024 4

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'Bloody' Ramadan Friday as Gaza strike kills 36 relatives

Displaced by Israeli bombardment, the Tabatibi family gathered in central Gaza to eat together during the first Friday night of Ramadan, a scene that...

16.03.2024 8

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'Crying is useless': Gazans take stock in battered Khan Yunis

Shell-shocked Palestinians who returned Thursday to part of Khan Yunis where Israeli soldiers have carried out extensive military operations took...

07.03.2024 4

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Vigilantes try to uphold order as war batters Gaza's Rafah

Whether directing traffic or controlling prices, a group of vigilantes is determined to uphold order as five months of war have shattered any...

06.03.2024 6

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Medics warn of danger, desperation at key Gaza hospital

Medics are sounding the alarm at southern Gaza's Nasser hospital, where a nurse said snipers are killing people, sewage has flooded the emergency room...

14.02.2024 6

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Six-year-old Gaza girl found dead days after pleading for help

Six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded to be rescued, after her family's car came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza City, leaving her alone, frightened and...

10.02.2024 5

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Gazans fear Israeli advance on Rafah would 'end in massacres'

Adel al-Hajj fears Israeli forces could at any moment launch an "invasion" of southern Gaza's Rafah city, where he and more than a million other...

09.02.2024 7

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No rest for Gaza dead with swift burials, bodies dug up

Even the dead are not spared by the Hamas-Israel war raging in Gaza, with bodies dug up by Israeli troops and hurried burials happening in hospitals...

29.01.2024 6

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Civilians trapped by fighting in Gaza's south, Hague decision looms

Concern grew on Friday for civilians trapped by fighting around Khan Yunis in Gaza's south, with the top UN court set to rule in a case against Israel...

26.01.2024 4

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Hamas officials say Gaza deaths top 24,000 as war drags on

Health officials in Hamas-run Gaza reported on Monday more than 24,000 deaths in the war with Israel which has sent shockwaves across the region, as...

15.01.2024 7

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Gaza officials say dozens killed in 'intense' Israeli strikes

Officials in Hamas-run Gaza said on Monday dozens were killed overnight in "intense" Israeli bombardment, as the war which has sent shockwaves across...

15.01.2024 6

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Israel pounds Gaza with no end in sight to war

Israel pounded Gaza on Monday, exacerbating the dire conditions for civilians with no end in sight to the war Hamas says has killed more than 20,000...

25.12.2023 5

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Music gives Gaza children respite from horrors of war

It takes a while but slowly the children gathered around volunteer entertainer Ruaa Hassuna in a Gaza camp start clapping along as her music offers...

20.12.2023 7

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Winter rain compounds suffering of displaced Gazans

Cold winter rains lashed war-battered Gaza on Wednesday, compounding the suffering of Palestinians forced from their homes and now huddling in flooded...

13.12.2023 5

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Israeli forces battle Hamas in main southern Gaza city

Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in Gaza's main southern city on Wednesday in some of the most intense combat of the two-month-old war sparked...

06.12.2023 6

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The young men and the sea: Gaza's displaced take to the waves

With the rising of the sun, dozens of people flock to the Mediterranean beaches of the devastated Gaza Strip. Some come out of necessity, to bathe or...

30.11.2023 6

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In Gaza, teacher brings school to displaced children

Gaza teacher Tareq al-Ennabi arranges his pupils' chairs in a circle, sets out the slates and chalk, and plans his lesson for the day: how to say in...

30.11.2023 5

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As clock ticks down, calls mount for Hamas and Israel to extend truce

International pressure mounted on Monday for Hamas and Israel to extend their truce, as the clock ticked on a pause in fighting that has allowed for...

27.11.2023 3

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Israel, Hamas agree to truce, 50 hostages to be released

Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day truce that would see the Palestinian group release dozens of hostages taken on October 7, both sides announced...

22.11.2023 3

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Hopes mount for hostages after Hamas chief says truce deal 'close'

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday that a truce agreement with Israel was in sight, raising hopes that dozens of people taken hostage in the...

21.11.2023 8

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Hamas says Gaza truce deal 'close', raising hopes for hostages

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday a truce agreement with Israel was in sight, raising hopes that his militant group could soon release dozens...

21.11.2023 5

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29 Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt as Hamas reports deadly hospital strike

Twenty-nine premature babies were evacuated from war-torn Gaza to Egypt on Monday as the Hamas-run health ministry accused Israel of launching a...

20.11.2023 7

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Hamas says Israel launched deadly strike on Gaza's Indonesian Hospital

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said Monday Israeli forces had struck the Indonesian Hospital and killed at least 12 people, including patients, in...

20.11.2023 9

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Israel expands Gaza operation amid hostage deal talks

Gaza braced for a further expansion of Israeli military operations on Monday even as cautious hopes built for a deal to release hostages in exchange...

20.11.2023 10

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Israel expands Gaza operation as mediator says hostage deal 'close'

Israeli troops were "expanding" their operation in the Gaza Strip Monday, as Qatari mediators said they were inching closer to a deal to free some of...

20.11.2023 4

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Premature babies moved from Gaza hospital as Israel steps up fight with Hamas

Thirty-one premature babies were evacuated from Gaza's biggest hospital on Sunday, the World Health Organization said, seeking to get the last...

19.11.2023 6

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Babies evacuated from Gaza hospital UN agency dubs 'death zone'

More than 30 premature babies were evacuated Sunday from Gaza's largest hospital, said a health official in the Hamas-run territory, as Israel's army...

19.11.2023 5

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Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital a 'death zone', WHO says urging evacuation

Gaza's largest hospital has become a "death zone," the World Health Organization said Sunday, announcing plans to evacuate the last remaining patients...

19.11.2023 8

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Hundreds flee from hospital at centre of Israel-Hamas war

Hundreds of people fled on foot Saturday after the director of Gaza's main hospital said Israel's army ordered evacuation of the facility where more...

18.11.2023 6

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Hundreds flee as Israel orders Gaza's main hospital evacuated

Hundreds of people fled on foot Saturday after Israel's army ordered the evacuation of Gaza's main hospital where more than 2,000 patients, medics and...

18.11.2023 6

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'Bombings everywhere': No escape for Gaza's displaced

Airstrikes, destroyed houses and loved ones annihilated by bombs: Palestinians who fled the north of the Gaza Strip on Israeli orders have found no...

18.11.2023 9

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Gazans bury their dead in orchards and football fields

Before he fled his home in northern Gaza, where intense fighting now rages between Israel and Hamas, Mahmud al-Masri had a grim job to do: bury his...

09.11.2023 5

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Sky above Gaza turns red in deadly night of strikes

The bodies arrived through the night at the morgue of a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip. By Monday morning, hospital...

06.11.2023 5

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Amid the rubble, desperate Gazans look for survivors

"Are there any survivors?" shouted Said al-Najma, as he tried to shift the blocks of concrete strewn across the road after another night of Israeli...

06.11.2023 3

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Huge queues at Gaza bakeries as war shortages bite

Etidal al-Masri got up before dawn to reach the bakery in Rafah in the hopes of getting enough bread to feed her relatives who were bombed out of...

29.10.2023 6

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Medics discover with horror relatives among Gaza dead

Mahmud al-Astal is one of many medics providing lifesaving care as casualties flood hospitals in Gaza, only to one day discover his sister and her...

28.10.2023 3

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Ground battles rage in Gaza after Israel escalates bombing

Battles raged in Gaza on Saturday as Israel's army said it expanded ground operations after intensifying its bombardment of the Palestinian territory...

28.10.2023 10

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Displaced Gazans head back north after finding south no safer

When Israel warned civilians to leave northern Gaza, Rahma Saqallah and her family fled south. But after Israeli bombs killed her huband and three of...

26.10.2023 4

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Palestinian dual nationals await Gaza border opening

Dozens of Palestinians clutching foreign passports gathered Friday at Gaza's border with Egypt, the only crossing which can possibly open as Israel...

20.10.2023 5

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Gaza hospitals at 'breaking point' as desperate residents seek shelter

Tens of thousands of families have flocked to Gaza's overwhelmed hospitals seeking refuge from seemingly endless Israeli army shelling, leading to new...

17.10.2023 5

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Gaza hospitals overwhelmed by air strikes and siege: doctors

Doctors and nurses at Gaza's overwhelmed Al-Shifa hospital on Tuesday were busy treating hundreds of casualties from Israeli air raids as the...

10.10.2023 3

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Rocket barrages from Gaza hit Israel, killing at least one

Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday as militants from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel,...

07.10.2023 10

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Israel reopens Gaza crossing to Palestinian workers

Israel on Thursday allowed thousands of Palestinian workers to cross from Gaza for the first time in two weeks through the Erez crossing, following...

28.09.2023 3

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Oslo Accords promise turned into 'destroyed dreams' in Gaza

Three decades after a historic handshake on the White House lawn that capped months of secret Israeli-Palestinian talks, disillusioned young Gazans...

12.09.2023 5

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