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The U.S.- Israel proposal had small changes, officials said
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday said that Hamas was serious and positive about the ceasefire talks with Israel. “We are not ready to accept a situation in which…Hamas battalions come out of their bunkers, take control of Gaza again, rebuild their military infrastructure, and return to threatening citizens of Israel,” Haniyeh added. Israel said…
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There has been 6 months of Israel’s war in Gaza
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel’s military operations in Gaza are not aimed at Hamas and that there is “no reason” to target the militant group. However, Netanyahu added that Hamas “mustn’t be allowed to use these attacks as cover for carrying out attacks on Israel”. Over 1,000 people were killed in an…
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The conflict in Gaza has upended the Middle East
US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called on Israel to end its military operations in Gaza. “Israel’s conduct in Gaza has been unacceptable and needs to end immediately,” he said in a statement. This comes after a Palestinian militant group, Hamas, launched an attack on Israel last year that killed over 1,200 people and…
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World Central Kitchen is led by a chef and has given food to crisis zones for years
Seven workers of the US-based World Central Kitchen, including a Palestinian, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday. The strike took place while World Central Kitchen’s team was unloading more than 100 tons of food aid brought to Gaza by sea. One of the workers was identified as Kirby Kirby, who had…
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Palestinians remember Rachel Corrie, a U.S. activist who died in Gaza
Twenty years after the death of US activist Rachel Corrie in a confrontation with Israeli troops in Gaza, her mother remembered her as a “really critical observer”. “Knowing what a really critical observer she was…just transformed our understanding of what was happening 21 years ago in Gaza and throughout that region,” said her mother. Corrie…
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People in Gaza eat weed and animal feed to stave off hunger
Thousands of pregnant women and children in the Gaza Strip are facing hardships after the conflict between Israel and Hamas that began in October. Many of the pregnant women and their children have not been able to afford medical supplies, said CARE, an aid organisation that helps women and children in Gaza. The conflict has…
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There was at least 20 killed when another Gaza aid convoy ended in violence
Israel’s military on Friday said it is trying to “flood” Gaza with humanitarian aid by land, air and sea. The new initiatives are too small and inefficient to meet the enormous needs of Gazan civilians, aid organisations and United Nations officials said. Aid organisations have argued that it would be better for Israel to ease…
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Israel allows aid directly into North Gaza
The United Nations said that the situation in Gaza has become “grave”, adding that there’s a urgent need for aid. “There’ve been a lot of civilian casualties as a result of the Israeli war,” it said. It further said that it is essential that the international community takes action to help the people of Gaza.
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There are hurdles to getting food to the starving population in Gaza
Israel on Tuesday allowed six trucks carrying supplies from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to enter the northern Gaza Strip for distribution, the Israeli military said. This is the first shipment of food from Cyprus to Gaza since the conflict between Israel and Hamas in October. The WFP said that people in the north…
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Harris pressed Israel to allow aid delivery for the hostages in Gaza
In a meeting with Israel’s Defence Minister General Benny Gantz, US Vice-President Kamala Harris urged Israel “to do more to allow aid to be flowed into Gaza”, according to the White House. Harris also expressed her “deep concern” about the humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the recent tragedy surrounding an aid convoy, the White House…
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Harris is against a Gaza cease-fire and he wants Israel to ease aid delivery
US Vice President Kamala Harris said that the US has no regard for innocent life in Israel or in Gaza, during a meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. Harris also assailed what she called “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged Israel to allow for the increase of aid into the besieged enclave. Israel and…
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Harris calls for a cease-fire in Gaza
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday met Israel’s Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz at the White House amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. “I’m here to express my support for Israel’s right to defend itself against the threat from Hamas,” Harris said. Harris also urged Israel to let…
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Relief to Palestinians in Gaza is a last resort
Gaza health authorities said at least 100 people were killed on Thursday in a clash between aid trucks and Palestinians trying to get to the convoy. More than 30,000 people have died in the war between Israel and Gaza since October, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Israel allowed only a trickle of aid to enter…
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Scores of people died in a chaotic scene while trying to get aid in Gaza
Around 50 aid trucks have entered Gaza this week, the first major aid delivery there in a month, Israeli military officials said. Over a month ago, witnesses and health officials in Gaza accused troops of firing on a previous aid distribution in Gaza City, killing at least 20 people. Palestinians and Israelis are demanding a…
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The death toll in Gaza passed 30,000
An analysis published in the Lancet medical journal in December found that Gaza’s health ministry has “historically reported accurate mortality data”, with discrepancies between 1% and roughly 3% when compared with United Nations analysis of deaths in previous conflicts. The health ministry says that 350 medical staff have died in the Gaza Strip since the…
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The two hospitals in Southern Gaza are barely functioning
The World Health Organization said that 14 people were evacuated from a UN mission at the second-largest hospital in Gaza, the World Health Organization said. The UN added that negotiations were continuing with the Israeli military to allow the patients to be evacuated. Israel ordered two neighbourhoods of Gaza City to leave on Tuesday due…
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Israel claims it saved 2 Hostages from Rafah
Israeli security forces rescued two people held hostage by Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military, police and Shin Bet said on Monday. The men had been captured from Nir Yitzhak, near the Gaza border. “Enough to warrant the kinds of efforts that we’re doing,” Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said. Hamas has seized…
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Why did the war in Gaza bring attention to the term ‘domicide’?
Amid fighting between Israel and Hamas, many Palestinians in Gaza equate the situation with ‘nakba’, Arabic for catastrophe, when the Palestinians were displaced by the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Abdelsalam Al-Ghoul, a 30-year-old Palestinian who fled his home in Gaza, called Hamas’ attack an “honourable act” against Israeli oppression, but said Hamas “greatly misjudged the…
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The International Court of Justice finds the case of genocide in Gazaplausible
A South African lawyer said on Friday that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The lawyer added that over 25,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began a military operation against Hamas in Gaza. She said that the scale of Palestinian child killings in Gaza is such that UN chiefs have described it…
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There are conversations and thoughts about the moment
Israel has allowed a limited amount of aid into the Gaza Strip since the conflict between the army and Hamas began last month. The aid is routed through the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel and the Egyptian crossing with Egypt. Aid entering Gaza is routed through that crossing and also through the Egyptian crossing with…
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The death toll in Gaza has doubled since the war began
Over 24,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7 and nearly 300 others have been injured, Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al- Qidra said. At least 178 bodies were brought to Gaza’s hospitals in 24 hours, he added. The war began with Hamas’ surprise attack into Israel on October 7 in which Palestinian…
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There is no end to war in sight as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has gone past 25,000
The Israel-Hamas conflict has killed over 16,000 women and children, with two mothers losing their lives every hour, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality said. It added that nearly 2 million people are displaced and close to a million women and girls are in need of shelter and safety. The agency further said that…
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There is a plan in Israel for a post-war Gaza
US State Secretary Antony Blinken on Tuesday said he was coming to Israel with promises from the Arab nations and Turkey to help in rebuilding Gaza after the Israeli war against Hamas. Six countries are already planning for reconstruction of Gaza following the end of the Israeli war against Hamas, according to a report by…
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Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel in reaction to the death of a leader
The Israeli military said there are still some Hamas fighters in northern Gaza, but they no longer work under an organized military command. This comes a day after a senior Hamas official was killed in Lebanon. “There’s still some Hamas fighters in northern Gaza, but they no longer worked under an organised military command,” the…
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The city official says that Israeli troops have left some parts of Gaza City
Israeli military has said that the focus of Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip has shifted to eliminate goals and infrastructure of Hamas movement. The military added that there’s an ongoing military operation going on in other parts of the Gaza Strip. Over 22,000 people were killed in 12 weeks of fighting in Gaza,…