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Israeli strike kills 12 in south Gaza

THE civil defence agency in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday killed at least 12 people...

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Israeli fire kills 27 near Gaza aid point

Rescuers said the Israeli military killed at least 27 people near a US-backed aid centre in Gaza on Tuesday, with the army reporting it had fired on ‘suspects who advanced toward the troops’.

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UN chief calls for probe into deaths near Gaza aid site

UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for an independent investigation into the killing of dozens of Palestinians near a US-backed aid centre in Gaza after rescuers blamed the deaths on Israeli fire and the military denied any involvement.

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When the dead speak and the living refuse to listen

THE problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror...

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UN warns all of Gaza at risk of famine

The UN warned Friday that the entire population of Gaza was at risk of famine, as an Israeli far-right minister urged the use of ‘full force’ against Hamas.

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44 killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza

At least 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, rescuers said, a day after a World Food Programme warehouse in the centre of the territory was looted by desperate Palestinians.

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Israel kills Hamas’s presumed leader in Gaza

Israel said Wednesday its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader and the brother of Yahya, the slain mastermind of the October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war...

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380 UK, Ireland writers denounce Gaza ‘genocide’

Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland, including Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, penned an open letter Wednesday denouncing what they called Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza and urging a ceasefire...

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International law and Israel’s reign of terror in Gaza

AS THE world watches, one of history’s greatest crimes has taken form.  Inaction, complicity and silence in the face of genocide have caused profound suffering to the Palestinian people.  No final reckoning or redress would be equivalent to the scale and magnitude of Israel’s depraved criminality...

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UN in dark over Gaza aid group deliveries

The United Nations said on Tuesday it had no information on whether the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed aid group, had actually delivered any supplies inside the war-ravaged Palestinian territory...

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Genocide and engineered collapse of Gazan society

CONSEQUENT to the escalated Zionist genocide of Indigenous Palestinian people, and after a blockade of all goods since the beginning of March 2025, Gaza is experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis, with widespread food scarcity and starvation among its population. Human rights organizations and international agencies report the Israeli blockade has led to...

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Israeli strikes kill 22 in Gaza

Rescuers in Gaza said 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli air strikes across the Palestinian territory on Sunday.

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Israeli strikes kill 15 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people on Saturday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.

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Israeli strikes kill 16 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 16 people on Friday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.

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WHO begs Israel to show ‘mercy’ in Gaza

Fighting back tears, the head of the World Health Organisation on Thursday urged Israel to have ‘mercy’ in the Gaza war and insisted peace would be in Israel’s own interests.

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Israel strikes kill 52 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes had killed at least 52 people since dawn Thursday across the territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.

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Students chant ‘Free Mahmoud’

Columbia has been the site of demonstrations calling for an end to violence in Gaza for the past 18 months, and more recently, has seen student protesters arrested by the Trump administration....

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44 killed as Israel steps up offensive in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 44 people across the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, where Israel has intensified a military offensive aimed at crushing Hamas...

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WHO chief says 2 million ‘starving’ in Gaza

Two million people are ‘starving’ in the Gaza Strip, with the deliberate blocking of aid driving up the risk of famine, the World Health Organisation chief warned on Monday...

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The new dark age

IT IS 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern Sinai of Egypt are 2,000 trucks filled with sacks of flour, water tanks, canned food, medical supplies, tarps and fuel. The trucks idle under the scorching sun with temperatures climbing into the high 90s...

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Israeli strikes kill 52 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks on Monday killed at least 52 people, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory...

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Israeli air strikes kill 50 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 50 people, more than half of them children, a day after Israel announced an expanded military campaign in the besieged territory.

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Arab summit urges end to Gaza ‘bloodshed’

Arab leaders meeting Saturday at a summit in Baghdad urged the international community to press for a Gaza ceasefire, as Israel launched an expanded military offensive in the Palestinian territory...

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Israel expands Gaza offensive to defeat Hamas

Israel’s military launched intensified Gaza operations on Saturday aimed at ‘the defeat of Hamas’, with rescuers in the besieged Palestinian territory reporting at least 10 killed by new Israeli strikes...