Gazans

U.S. allows United Nations ceasefire vote, but it comes late for Gazans

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You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. In a surprise move Monday, the United States abstained during a United Nations Security Council vote calling for an immediate … Read more

Thousands of Gazans have gone missing. No one is accounting for them.

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JERUSALEM — A teenager who sold cigarettes. A singer on the rise. An engineer at a local bottling plant. They are among thousands who have been reported missing in Gaza. Many disappeared under the rubble after airstrikes. Others are believed to have been detained at Israeli checkpoints while fleeing south or trying to return to … Read more

World Leaders React to Deaths of Gazans Waiting For Aid

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World leaders are putting pressure on Israel to allow in more humanitarian aid to Gaza, with some turning to their own efforts to do so, after at least 110 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured trying to get aid this week, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.   Witnesses said Israeli troops fired on the … Read more

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of blocking aid to Gazans in violation of a UN court order

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israel has failed to comply with an order by the United Nations’ top court to provide urgently needed aid to desperate people in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said Monday, a month after a landmark ruling in The Hague ordered Israel to moderate its war. In a preliminary response to … Read more

Gazans seek to flee Rafah ahead of ‘massive’ Israeli operation

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Gazans living in the overcrowded border city of Rafah are attempting to flee ahead of an expected military operation by Israeli forces, despite uncertainty about where to go next and dwindling resources. “We’ve been living in a state of terror for about a week now,” Anwaar al-Rai, 48, said in an interview Tuesday. Rai, who … Read more

As Gazans return to destroyed homes, Israeli ministers push resettlement

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Tariq’s neighborhood in Gaza’s Jabalya Camp was rapidly becoming a war zone when he and his family of eight fled Israeli bombing in November. When he returned home Sunday — after weeks spent scrounging for food, on the run from artillery and firefights — it … Read more

Egypt under growing pressure as displaced Gazans crowd the border

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave CAIRO — Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Egypt has held firm that it will not accept Palestinian refugees. But as Israel presses on with its offensive in southern Gaza, driving thousands of Palestinians toward Egypt, pressure is building along the border. Conditions are ripe … Read more

Gazans Have Nowhere Left to Flee

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I woke up Sunday morning, Dec. 3, 2023, to frantic texts from B, a college student I mentor in Gaza through We Are Not Numbers, an organization that helps young adult writers publish stories in English. I’m calling him “B” because Palestinians in Gaza fear retaliation from the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) if they publicly … Read more

Israel forces enter Khan Younis as Gazans flee to overcrowded Rafah

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Fighting intensified in southern Gaza Wednesday, further dashing hopes that a section of the enclave where hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled in search of refuge would be spared the scale of combat that leveled much of northern Gaza. Israel Defense Forces said it … Read more