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Palestinian children walk amid the destruction in a heavly damaged residential district of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on July 5, 2024, amid continuing battles between Hamas and Israel in the besieged territory. - Witnesses reported on July 5 Israeli artillery fire and bombardment in the Rafah and Khan Yunis areas, four days after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the southern Gaza cities. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Deadly strikes hit Gaza as war enters tenth month

Israel carried out deadly air strikes in the Gaza Strip as the war entered its tenth month on Sunday, with fighting raging across the Palestinian territory and fresh diplomatic efforts under way
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A Palestinian man cycles past open sewage and buildings destroyed in past Israeli bombardment, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City on July 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group. - Israel's military said on July 3, it was conducting raids backed by air strikes in northern Gaza, killing "dozens" of militants in an area where it had declared the command structure of Hamas dismantled months ago. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza: Fuel shortages ‘catastrophic’ for devastated health services- WHO

The World Health Organization chief has warned that a dire lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip could have a “catastrophic” impact on already devastated health services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
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A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip drives at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, on June 17, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Ahikam SERI / AFP)

Israel bombs Gaza as fears grow of wider war

Israel bombed Gaza on Friday as exchanges of fire and threats over the Lebanon border raised fears of wider war. Five municipal workers died “during an Israeli bombing” of a garage in
2 weeks ago
Palestinians perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayer in the courtyard of Gaza City's historic Omari Mosque, which was heavily damaged in Israeli bombardment during the ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas, on the first day of the Muslim holiday marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, on June 16, 2024. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

‘No joy’: Gazans mark sombre Eid in shadow of war

In tents in the stifling heat and in bombed-out mosques, Gazans marked Sunday the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, devoid of the usual cheer as the Israel-Hamas war raged
3 weeks ago

Woe Unto Israel!

The Israeli Defence Force slaughtered 274 innocent and defenceless Palestinian civilians in Nuseirat on saturday just to rescue four Jewish hostages in what has been decribed by an eyewitness as a “callous
4 weeks ago
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