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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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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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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...

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Trump says many in Gaza are starving

US president Donald Trump said on Friday ‘a lot of people are starving’ in the besieged Gaza Strip, where rescuers reported more than 74 deaths in Israeli air strikes since midnight.

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Watching Gaza starve to death

THE situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...

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Israeli strikes kill 100 in Gaza

Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

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Journalist killed as Israel hits Gaza hospital

Israel’s military said it struck a Gaza hospital housing militants, in a raid on Tuesday that, according to Hamas, killed a journalist being treated after an Israeli attack last month...

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Cannes film fest under pressure to take stance on Gaza war

The Cannes film festival kicks off Tuesday on the French Riviera, with organisers facing pressure to take a stance on Israel’s siege of Gaza after a letter from hundreds of top cinema figures denouncing ‘genocide’ in the Palestinian territory.

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Hamas frees US-Israeli hostage

Palestinian group Hamas said its armed wing handed over a US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza since October 2023 on Monday, ahead of a regional visit by US president Donald Trump.

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Israeli strike kills eight in Khan Yunis

Gaza’s civil defence on Sunday reported eight deaths, including four young children, in an Israeli air strike on tents housing displaced people in the southern city of Khan Yunis...

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Israeli strike kills five in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City, all members of single family according to relatives.

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Obscenity of collective punishment in Gaza

MAYBE you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the whole class by taking away your recess. Maybe this...

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Israeli strikes kill 19 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said two Israeli air strikes killed at least 19 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory’s north early Monday...

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ICJ, Israel and the Gaza blockade

THE murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done thing.  These are the sorts of activities kept quiet and secluded in their vicious execution.  In the Gaza Strip, these actions are taking place with a confident, almost brazen assuredness...

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Israeli strikes kill 16 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Sunday said Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory killed 16 people, including at least three children...

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Israeli strikes kill 29 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 29 people Friday in the Palestinian territory, devastated by war and under a total Israeli aid blockade for two months.