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A dozen people, including Israeli soldiers, charged with smuggling goods into Gaza

February 4, 2026 admin

Trucks carrying aid and supplies line up next to Egyptian ambulances, before transporting supplies into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing on the Egyptian side, in Rafah, Egypt, on February 4, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s Ministry of Justice charged a dozen people, including Israeli soldiers,…

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Rafah crossing reopening: Palestinians wait at Gaza-Egypt border as uncertainty clouds

February 4, 2026 admin

Palestinians gathered on both sides of Gaza’s border with Egypt on Tuesday (February 3, 2026) hoping to pass through the Rafah crossing, after its reopening the previous day was marred by delays, interrogations and uncertainty over who would be allowed to cross. “On the Egyptian side were Palestinians who fled Gaza earlier in the Israel-Hamas…

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Young Palestinian boy drowns in muddy water flooding his Gaza tent camp, UN says

January 1, 2026 admin

The U.N. said Thursday (January 1, 2026) that a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip drowned in floods that engulfed his tent camp, with videos showing rescuers trying to pry his body out of muddy waters by pulling him by the ankle. It was the latest sign of the miseries that winter is inflicting on…

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Winter rain floods Gaza camps as Netanyahu heads for US meeting

December 29, 2025 admin

Winter rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by two years of war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled for an expected meeting on Monday (December 29, 2025) with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida…

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Israel says it killed Hamas financial officer in Gaza

December 24, 2025 admin

Image for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Israeli army said Wednesday (December 24, 2025) that it had identified a Hamas financial official it killed two weeks ago in a strike in the Gaza Strip. Abdel Hay Zaqut, a financial official in Hamas’s armed wing, on December 13 in the same strike that…

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Israel says it has killed top Hamas commander in Gaza

December 13, 2025 admin

Palestinians and Emergency personnel carry a white body bag of a victim at Al-Shifa Hospital targeted by an Israeli strike on a car in Gaza City, on December 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel on Saturday (December 13, 2025) said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and…

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Amnesty says Israel ‘still committing genocide’ in Gaza, despite truce

November 28, 2025 admin

Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Amnesty International on Thursday (November 28, 2025) claimed that Israel was “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli Foreign Ministry did not respond to the allegations by early evening. When faced with such allegations…

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Hamas delegation in Cairo to discuss Gaza ceasefire, sources say

November 23, 2025 admin

A Palestinian boy inspects the site of Saturday’s Israeli strike in the Central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Sunday (November 23, 2025) to meet with Gaza war mediators, an Egyptian security source and a Hamas source said, as both Israel and the Palestinian…

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Israeli airstrike on car in Gaza City kills four, others wounded, medics say

November 22, 2025 admin

An Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City killed at least four people and wounded several others, local health authorities said on Saturday (November 22, 2025), in a further test of a fragile ceasefire between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel. The Israeli military said it was checking the report. Witnesses and medics said…

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Israel reopens Zikim crossing in northern Gaza for aid trucks, COGAT says

November 12, 2025 admin

People walk with sacks of flour delivered after trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered northern Gaza on July 27, 2025 coming from the Zikim border crossing. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel reopened the Zikim Crossing in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid trucks into the enclave on Wednesday (November 12, 2025), COGAT, the Israeli military’s arm…

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