Desperation filled the air on Wednesday night as aid trucks finally crossed the border into the Gaza Strip. Civilians rushed a truck in Khan Younis on its way to a bakery. Fuelled by hunger, they began looting the bags of flour on its flatbed. […]
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Before beginning her lessons for the day, Aseel Alwan heads to the kitchen to make coffee, placing a kettle on an open flame to boil water that she pours into a mug with instant coffee. Then, she makes her way to her
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After a deadly attack on the European Hospital in Khan Younis Tuesday, patients who managed to escape and people trying to find loved ones were forced to navigate huge craters marring the medical centre’s courtyard, as mangled slabs of cracked
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The air at the beach in Gaza City last Friday afternoon was filled with squeals of happiness from young children running in and out of the water, the atmosphere a far cry from the destruction and rubble of the city as
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It was about 2 or 2:30 in the morning when Dr. Feroze Sidhwa was startled out of sleep by the sound of the door to his living quarters smashing into the closet behind it. It was March 18 and Israel had
Tal Mitnick, the first Israeli jailed for refusing mandatory conscription after the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, leans back in his seat in the Saint Paul University’s auditorium in Ottawa. On Dec. 26, 2023, Mitnick arrived at an enlistment centre in
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It was a frigid Wednesday night when Nevin Abu Sahloul, 39, waited impatiently for news of her son Muhammad. The 17-year-old had been missing since early last year, and Abu Sahloul had feared the worst — that he had died
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Mohammed Barghout, 47, takes a seat on a plastic chair at the Excellence Cafe in Khan Younis. Next to him, a man takes out a stack of shekels and counts out a few of the banknotes. The man checks his
From her tent made up of blankets, tarps and wood beams, Asala Shehata, 32, lays her three-year-old daughter Heba down on a mat on the ground to change her diaper. What used to be a simple routine has stretched into
This time last year, Michael Ofer-Ziv was halfway through his military work on the war in Gaza. The reservist was called up a week after the devastating Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The 29-year-old says he
