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New Gaza aid distribution backed by Israel, U.S. met with chaos, gunfire in its 1st week
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started distributing aid this week, but it was off to a rough start as desperate Palestinians scrambled to get food after weeks of delays. The group denies any reports of violence and says it will push forward with opening more distribution points in the strip.
Desperate Palestinians loot aid trucks as some enter Gaza Strip
After weeks of delays in allowing aid into the Gaza Strip, trucks finally crossed the border late Wednesday night. Desperate and hungry, civilians rushed one of the truck in Khan Younis that was on the way to a bakery, looting the bags of flour on its flatbed. The truck never made it to the bakery.
In war-torn Gaza, students strive to study and professors are compelled to teach
Determined to continue their studies despite the ongoing war that has destroyed all the universities in Gaza, many students are attending online classes through a patchwork of apps, internet cafes and committed professors who record lessons as drones buzz.
Deadly Israeli strikes target 2 separate Khan Younis hospitals in 1 day
An Israeli missile strike at the European Hospital in Khan Younis Tuesday killed at least 16 people, wounded about 70 others and forced patients and doctors to evacuate the building. It was the second Israeli attack of the day to target hospitals in the Gaza Strip where Israel's military said Hamas terrorists were operating, after a dawn airstrike hit the Nasser Medical Complex, killing two patients, including a well-known journalist.
For Palestinians, a day at the beach is an all-too-brief escape from war
Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza City make their way to the beach to seek relief from the stress of daily survival as the war grinds on. But even this small moment of joy can be tainted with painful memories of lost loved ones and the looming fear that things could still go wrong at any moment.
Every night during war, Pope Francis called Gaza's only Catholic Church in 'singular expression of love'
Every evening at 8 p.m., Father Gabriel Romanelli of Holy Family Church in Gaza City prepared to receive a call from Vatican City. The calls from Pope Francis — checking in on how those huddled inside Gaza's lone Catholic Church were coping during the war — were 'a singular expression of his love' that the the priest says gave people a sign of hope.
From razing rubble to blowing up homes: IDF soldiers share how they expanded Gaza buffer zone in new report
A new report from Breaking the Silence, an Israel-based NGO, includes interviews with Israeli soldiers who detail how they completely razed homes and infrastructure on a swath of land between Israel and Gaza to expand a buffer zone at least one kilometre further into the strip.
'Get out, Hamas': Hundreds protest against group's rule over Gaza, call for end to war with Israel
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza on Wednesday to demand an end to war and chanting 'Hamas out,' in a rare public show of opposition to the militant group a week after Israel resumed its bombardment on the war-torn territory.
This volunteer doctor arrived in Gaza during the ceasefire. On Tuesday, the war began again
On Tuesday, following a 42-day ceasefire in Gaza, Israel began a bombing campaign that effectively crumbled the deal. Feroze Sidhwa, a doctor from California, was jolted awake and into a day of trying to save lives
Palestinians scramble to hospitals after Israeli airstrikes hit homes, encampments across Gaza
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza scrambled to get their loved ones to hospitals, saying there was no warning before a wave of deadly Israeli airstrikes hit in the early hours of Tuesday, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.