Gaza

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Rights monitor faults Israeli inquiries into five attacks in GazaRights

Rights monitor faults Israeli inquiries into five attacks in Gaza

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says the army examined itself through a body answering to its own General Staff, and opened a criminal case in only two of the five files. Thirty-five people were killed in them.

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Politics

Hamas official: we were asked to be sensitive to Netanyahu's vote

Bassem Naim said mediators on the Gaza roadmap, the US adviser Jared Kushner among them, urged the movement to weigh the Israeli prime minister's standing before an election. He refused.

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Gaza

Gaza City buries 50 people found after three years in the rubble

Civil Defence crews spent weeks pulling the remains out of five neighbourhoods with a single excavator. Some 8,000 people are still thought to lie under the debris.

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Israeli naval forces detain four fishermen off Gaza CityGaza

Israeli naval forces detain four fishermen off Gaza City

Fishermen's committees said naval boats fired on the vessel while its crew was working, then took four men off it. Two of them are 17 years old.

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Oil reaches 40 of Gaza's 700 water and sewage generatorsGaza

Oil reaches 40 of Gaza's 700 water and sewage generators

With the machines at a fifth of capacity, crews are supplying drinking water first and collecting sewage second, and have stopped clearing rubble altogether. If the pumping stations halt, the wastewater reaches the shelters.

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Israeli strike on a Gaza City police headquarters kills nineGaza

Israeli strike on a Gaza City police headquarters kills nine

Paramedics count 15 wounded and say police personnel and children are among the dead. The interior ministry reads the strike as an attempt to leave the territory without a civil police force.

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Doctors say malnutrition has permanently stunted famine survivorsHealth

Doctors say malnutrition has permanently stunted famine survivors

A six-year-old in Gaza City has the bone age of a two-year-old, and a 10-month-old born to a starving mother is being treated for her heart, kidneys and lungs. Food returning has not moved either diagnosis.

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All seven deaths in Gaza's latest count entered against the truceGaza

All seven deaths in Gaza's latest count entered against the truce

The toll since October 2025 rose to 1,273 killed, by exactly the number of bodies hospitals received in a day, while the separate count of recovered bodies did not move at all.

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186 aid workers killed in Gaza in 2025, over half the world totalRights

186 aid workers killed in Gaza in 2025, over half the world total

The UN humanitarian office recorded 907 aid staff killed, injured or kidnapped worldwide, the highest yearly figure held in the database, and names cheap armed drones as what has changed the risk.

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Gaza has 12 working oxygen stations and 4 cylinder-filling machinesHealth

Gaza has 12 working oxygen stations and 4 cylinder-filling machines

A health ministry engineer puts figures to a shortage that rights monitors warned of at the weekend, and the stations still standing are running past the capacity they were built for.

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Rallies in 19 cities will press for aid access to Gaza on WednesdayWorld

Rallies in 19 cities will press for aid access to Gaza on Wednesday

Organisers put the daily truck traffic at 100 to 200, against the 600 written into the ceasefire.

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Strike on a cafe at Gaza City's fishing port kills six and wounds 10Gaza

Strike on a cafe at Gaza City's fishing port kills six and wounds 10

The dead and wounded were taken to Al-Shifa. The Israeli military said it had been aiming at four Hamas commanders.

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Netanyahu told Kushner targeted killings in Gaza will continuePolitics

Netanyahu told Kushner targeted killings in Gaza will continue

The envoy selling the roadmap and the prime minister being sold it are described as parting without agreement on the one practice that keeps the toll rising through the truce.

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Kushner meets Netanyahu a day after rare talks with Hamas in EgyptPolitics

Kushner meets Netanyahu a day after rare talks with Hamas in Egypt

The 15-point roadmap has been accepted by Hamas and rejected by Israel, which leaves the US envoy shuttling between a party that has signed on to the sequence and a party that has not.

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Eight foreign ministries blame Israel for the Gaza deadlockPolitics

Eight foreign ministries blame Israel for the Gaza deadlock

The joint statement calls the rejection a repudiation of a plan the Security Council itself endorsed, and asks Washington to keep pressing — an admission that the signatories cannot enforce it themselves.

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Camps by Gaza's Yellow Line report 20 litres of water a familyGaza

Camps by Gaza's Yellow Line report 20 litres of water a family

Managers of the displacement sites south of Zeitoun say the marker line was pushed westward, and that some aid organisations will no longer send teams to what is now the near side of it.

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In Gaza's camps, lost businesses are remade from aid tinsGaza

In Gaza's camps, lost businesses are remade from aid tins

UN Trade and Development counts 22 years of progress erased in under two years; in the tents that arithmetic reads as a gym rebuilt out of empty cans.

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Switzerland picks a Gaza documentary as its 2027 Oscar entryCulture

Switzerland picks a Gaza documentary as its 2027 Oscar entry

The film had to be shot in South Africa, because the nine Palestinians who speak in it could not get visas to reach Switzerland.

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Gaza patients protest blocked medical transfers for a fourth monthGaza

Gaza patients protest blocked medical transfers for a fourth month

Some of those taking part hold approved referrals and finished travel paperwork, and say the crossings still stop them from leaving.

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Artillery fire injures Palestinians in eastern Gaza CityGaza

Artillery fire injures Palestinians in eastern Gaza City

A second shell set a house alight near the al-Sanafour intersection, ten months into a ceasefire under which 1,262 people have been killed.

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Israeli-funded campaign shaped content to reach AI answers on GazaWorld

Israeli-funded campaign shaped content to reach AI answers on Gaza

US filings put $100,000 behind a think tank whose ownership is disclosed only at the foot of its own website.

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Palestinian detainees have spent 1,000 days in isolation, body saysRights

Palestinian detainees have spent 1,000 days in isolation, body says

A monitoring paper puts the number held at about 9,400, of whom 3,244 are jailed without a trial.

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Gaza journalist Mohamed Arab in court 29 months after arrestRights

Gaza journalist Mohamed Arab in court 29 months after arrest

His lawyer and Palestinian press bodies say he is held as an unlawful combatant with no clear indictment presented.

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35 detainees from Gaza released through Kerem Abu Salem crossingRights

35 detainees from Gaza released through Kerem Abu Salem crossing

Palestinian prisoner organisations put the number still held at about 9,400, some 1,320 of them from Gaza.

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Drone strike on a tent west of Khan Younis kills one and injures sixGaza

Drone strike on a tent west of Khan Younis kills one and injures six

The Health Ministry has counted 1,262 people killed since the ceasefire took effect in October.

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Gaza hospitals are close to running out of oxygen, ministry warnsHealth

Gaza hospitals are close to running out of oxygen, ministry warns

The plants still running have nothing left to give, the ministry says.

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Hospitals face oxygen system collapse as entry restrictions tightenHealth

Hospitals face oxygen system collapse as entry restrictions tighten

Restrictions on equipment and spare parts are at the centre of the failure.

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Cancer patients in Gaza face a deteriorating treatment crisisHealth

Cancer patients in Gaza face a deteriorating treatment crisis

Destroyed facilities, drug shortages and travel restrictions are cutting off care.

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MSF warns engine oil restrictions are deepening Gaza's energy crisisHealth

MSF warns engine oil restrictions are deepening Gaza's energy crisis

Hospitals, water pumping and food supply chains all depend on the same generators.

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An 11-year-old in Gaza faces kidney failure without evacuationHealth

An 11-year-old in Gaza faces kidney failure without evacuation

Prolonged malnutrition and successive complications have sharpened his condition.

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For Gaza's patients, a referral is the start of the wait, not the endHealth

For Gaza's patients, a referral is the start of the wait, not the end

Approvals, coordination and closures stand between thousands of patients and care.

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Gaza office: killing of police points to a push toward disorderPolitics

Gaza office: killing of police points to a push toward disorder

Ismail al-Thawabta says the targeting undermines civil order in the territory.

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Ben-Gvir's repeated calls to empty Gaza draw renewed condemnationRights

Ben-Gvir's repeated calls to empty Gaza draw renewed condemnation

Rights advocates say the statements point to a broader displacement push.

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Removal of millions of tonnes of Gaza rubble raises evidence concernsRights

Removal of millions of tonnes of Gaza rubble raises evidence concerns

Rights organisations warn the clearance could destroy material evidence.

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Israeli forces detain three aid truck drivers near Kerem Abu SalemRights

Israeli forces detain three aid truck drivers near Kerem Abu Salem

The drivers were named by a correspondent at the crossing in southeastern Gaza.

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One Palestinian killed, another hurt by Israeli fire in south GazaGaza

One Palestinian killed, another hurt by Israeli fire in south Gaza

Local sources report artillery and gunfire in areas sheltering displaced families.

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Education official: about 80% of Gaza schools are out of serviceGaza

Education official: about 80% of Gaza schools are out of service

Some 127,000 students are without schooling, according to the East Gaza directorate.

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Tawjihi exams resume in Gaza after three yearsGaza

Tawjihi exams resume in Gaza after three years

Around 20,000 students sat the second session of the 2026 secondary certificate.

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The paramedic who described the dead, and was later counted among themGaza

The paramedic who described the dead, and was later counted among them

Yousef Khalifa worked with the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.

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On 300 square metres in Nuseirat, a farmer starts againCulture

On 300 square metres in Nuseirat, a farmer starts again

Mohammad al-Halabi, 50, has farmed since childhood.

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In Gaza, young survivors turn to drawingCulture

In Gaza, young survivors turn to drawing

Sixteen-year-old Maryam is among those using art to step outside the war.

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Explainers

Why Gaza's governance question is immediate, not future

Background: what a civil administration would do, and what its absence means now.

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Health

Women at a Gaza camp avoid communal toilets, at a cost to health

Sanitary conditions at al-Deira are driving avoidance, Electronic Intifada reports.

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Cancer patient died in Gaza while awaiting medical evacuationHealth

Cancer patient died in Gaza while awaiting medical evacuation

The 45-year-old science teacher underwent risky surgery as he waited, Electronic Intifada reports.

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Boys as young as 14 clear rubble by hand in Gaza for about $10 a dayGaza

Boys as young as 14 clear rubble by hand in Gaza for about $10 a day

With reconstruction stalled, the work has become a household's only income, Mondoweiss reports.

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Campaign marks a year since the killing of journalist Anas Al-SharifCulture

Campaign marks a year since the killing of journalist Anas Al-Sharif

Organisers say 260 journalists have been killed in Gaza, Mondoweiss reports.

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