Shattered

A midnight trip into northern Gaza reveals a shattered warscape

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave GAZA CITY — To enter Gaza now is to arrive in hell. On Saturday night, I crossed through the broken barrier between Israel and Gaza in the back of an Israeli military jeep, going fast without lights under a crescent moon. Before the breach, I was just … Read more

How a sunrise desert rave was shattered by paragliding Hamas gunmen

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This embedded content is not available in your region. The sun had just risen over Israel’s Negev desert, and at the all-night outdoor rave at Kibbutz Re’im, the party was still going. Thumping trance music was playing full volume, and under brightly-coloured canopies, hundreds of revellers were dancing themselves into exhaustion. Then, just as chill-out … Read more