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Gaza medics speak of 'dire' conditions at hospital raided by Israel

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said patients and medics were enduring "dire and frightening conditions" at a major hospital raided by Israeli...

15.02.2024 3

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Wartime medicine shortage deepens Gazan suffering

Mohammed Khader goes from one pharmacy to another in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, desperately searching for his relatives' medicines amid a...

15.02.2024 10

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Gaza girl, 6, missing along with rescuers after car comes under fire

The last time six-year-old Hind Rajab was heard from, she was surrounded by dead relatives and trapped in the family's car after it came under fire in...

06.02.2024 4

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'No space for everyone': Rafah overwhelmed with fleeing Gazans

Tens of thousands of people crammed into a street in Rafah, the southern Gaza city where vast numbers have sought refuge from advancing Israeli ground...

02.02.2024 5

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Trapped in Gaza's south, displaced Palestinians languish in winter

It took Palestinian woman Umm Imad three days to reach Rafah, braving rain and cold weather in hopes of reaching safety as fighting rages across the...

27.01.2024 6

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Freezing in makeshift tents, Gazans burn plastic to survive

In a makeshift tent of cloth and plastic, Ismail Nabhan huddled by a fire with his children and grandchildren as his family, displaced by the war in...

15.01.2024 7

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Displaced by war, Gaza mother gives birth to quadruplets

Iman al-Masry is simply exhausted after giving birth to quadruplets in a hospital in southern Gaza, miles away from her home in the north of the...

28.12.2023 4

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In Gaza, displaced women recount lives upended by war

A relentless Israeli military campaign, in response to deadly Hamas attacks on October 7, has upset the lives of most, if not all, residents of the...

24.12.2023 2

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Gripped by hunger, Gazans queue for meagre food

When Bakr al-Naji realises the meals he prepares each day for a charity in the Gaza Strip won't be sufficient to fill the stomachs of the children,...

24.12.2023 2

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Radio sets make a comeback in war-torn Gaza

Before war broke out in Gaza, Mahmud al-Daoudi could never have imagined the radio sets gathering dust in his shop would be in such high demand,...

19.12.2023 6

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'Money has become meaningless' in war-battered Gaza

Many Gazans already lived in poverty before the war. Now, even those with money have found the conflict to be a terrible equaliser as they hunt in...

13.12.2023 6

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Gaza families return to homes in ruins

Tea and cheese sandwiches are on the breakfast menu for Taghrid al-Najjar's children. It should be an everyday moment, but their home in the Gaza...

29.11.2023 6

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Entire families 'wiped out' as war rages in Gaza

Sahar Awwad is seated between her two nephews. Together, they are among the few survivors of an extended Gaza family of which at least 80 members have...

23.11.2023 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 facility, as Israel's...

19.11.2023 3

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Hamas says more than 80 dead in Israeli strikes on Gaza camp

A Hamas health official said more than 80 people were killed Saturday in twin strikes on a northern Gaza refugee camp, including a UN school used as a...

18.11.2023 8

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Displaced Gazans search for warm clothes as cold draws in

When Khulud Jarboueh and her children fled their home in the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli bombardment in early October, the young ones were...

17.11.2023 1

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Heavy rain heaps more misery on displaced Gazans

At a Gaza camp for those forced to leave their homes by the war between Israel and Hamas, Ayman al-Jueidi tried to shift the pooling rainwater...

14.11.2023 1

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Displaced Gazans live in dust, fear and hunger

At first Youssef Mehna thought the war would quickly be over. Then he was wounded, his house was destroyed, and he was forced to survive "25 days...

12.11.2023 7

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'I want my legs back': the child amputees of Gaza's war

Layan al-Baz cries in agony when the effect fades of the painkillers she receives after her legs were amputated -- the result of a strike on Gaza as...

04.11.2023 2

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The grim accounting system of a Gaza hospital

A pathologist checks a body in the morgue of the Gaza Strip's Nasser hospital, takes a photo and notes their name and the place where bombs killed the...

31.10.2023 1

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Journalists on the ground share the pain of Gaza

Hundreds of Palestinian journalists have had to flee south from Gaza City and work in fear for their lives in appalling conditions as Israeli air...

26.10.2023 2

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Palestinian sings to 'block out' roar of Israel strikes

Jawaher al-Aqraa says it will be a "miracle" if she survives the Gaza war but in the meantime she is singing to "block out" the roar of Israeli...

25.10.2023 1

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Bodies pile up in central Gaza as Israel steps up strikes

Scores of people rushed to Deir el-Balah hospital to identify bodies on Sunday after Israel stepped up its air strikes on Gaza, as the territory's...

22.10.2023 6

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In war-torn Gaza, fears of a new 'Nakba'

Omar Ashur became a refugee during the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" experienced by Palestinians following Israel's creation 75 years ago and now fears the...

21.10.2023 7

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For displaced Gazans, fear and suffering on the road south

Fadwa al-Najjar said she walked for 10 hours with her family from the north of war-torn Gaza to reach a UN camp for displaced Palestinians, witnessing...

20.10.2023 1

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In Gaza, a desperate search for loved ones under the rubble

Rescuers lifted a cement block and pulled the lifeless body of a Palestinian from the rubble of a residential building destroyed by Israeli air...

12.10.2023 2

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