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News Articles: Gaza Strip

South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 16, 2023. Fighting in Sudan has displaced 10 million people, according to U.N. figures.

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Nearly 120 million people were displaced around the world in 2023, UNHCR report says

The U.N. office on refugees found that by the end of last year, 1 in 69 people had been forced from their homes -- either within their own country or across an international border.

June 13, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
The aftermath of an Israeli strike on a U.N. school compound in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, that killed more than 30 people, including children, according to a Gaza hospital director. Israel said it was targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives hiding in two school classrooms.

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  • World

Israel used a U.S.-made bomb in a deadly U.N. school strike in Gaza

Israel dropped a bomb on a U.N.-run school it said was being used by Hamas. The blast killed dozens, including women and children, medics and witnesses say. The bomb was U.S.-made, NPR has discovered.

June 06, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Anas Baba
Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stands at the opening to a tunnel near the border with Israel on Dec. 15, 2023, northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said this was the largest tunnel they'd found yet in Gaza.

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  • World

Israel has no plan for Gaza after Hamas rule, the Israeli defense chief says

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's harsh public critique of Israel's war strategy set off a political firestorm that could threaten Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hold on power.

May 16, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
A woman mourns as she carries the shrouded body of a child killed following overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 6.

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  • World

Why the U.N. revised the numbers of women and children killed in Gaza

Here's a closer look at the United Nations' breakdown of casualties. The overall total of more than 35,000 Palestinians killed since Oct. 7, based on Gaza Health Ministry figures, has not declined.

May 15, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
A Palestinian boy sits near the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli strike in Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

In Gaza, a hidden threat could kill Palestinians even after a cease-fire

The United Nations says 7,500 metric tons of unexploded ordnance litter the Gaza Strip. The U.N. says it could take 14 years to dispose of these dangers.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Anas Baba
Palestinians pile their belongings on a vehicle as it drives to safer areas in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

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  • News

Israel expands evacuation orders in Rafah as aid groups struggle to prepare

Israel's military issued new evacuation orders in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, forcing even more Palestinians to relocate on Saturday ahead of a likely expanded ground operation there.

May 11, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Vincent Ni
An Israeli army battle tank moves along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on May 7.

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  • World

A timeline of events leading up to Israel's Rafah offensive

The Gaza Strip's Rafah border crossing with Egypt has been a key lifeline for people in the Palestinian enclave. Here is a timeline of events since Oct. 7, 2023, leading up to Israel's offensive.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy,
  • Itay Stern,
  • and 1 more
A U.S. Navy ship docks off the coast of the Gaza Valley area in the central Gaza Strip on April 29, 2024. The ship is expected to participate in the construction work of a floating naval dock to deliver more humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip  announced in March.

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  • Politics

The U.S. military pier off Gaza may soon be operating. Aid workers question its role

With aid groups warning of famine and the war between Israel and Hamas entering its seventh month, the assistance is needed, but there are key questions about its effectiveness and security.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han
This photo provided by the Israel Defense Forces shows a tank with an Israel flag on it entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Israeli forces seize the Gaza side of Rafah, as Hamas truce talks resume in Egypt

Israeli tanks rolled into Rafah Tuesday, taking control of the territory's border crossing with Egypt, even as Israel sent a delegation to Cairo for Hamas truce talks.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Anas Baba
Presiding judge Nawaf Salam (fourth from left) arrives to read a decision at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday.

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  • World

A top U.N. court won't order Germany to halt weapons exports to Israel

Nicaragua brought the case arguing that by providing arms to Israel, Germany is failing to prevent possible genocide against Palestinians in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

April 30, 2024
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By:
  • Nick Spicer
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah sit in the shade of their tent on a 100-degree day in the Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

A 100-degree heat wave in Gaza offers a sweltering glimpse of a tough summer to come

The heat bore down on Palestinians living in tents and aid groups working in the sun. UNRWA reported several heat injuries among its staff, and at least one 18-year-old Palestinian died from the heat.

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Anas Baba
A Palestinian baby girl, saved from the womb of her mother Sabreen Al-Sakani, who was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shukri Jouda and her daughter Malak, lies in an incubator at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21.

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  • Middle East

A baby girl born orphaned and premature after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died

The newborn died after five days in an incubator. Her family was killed in an air strike. UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Anas Baba
Amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Rafah, in southern Gaza, a woman and a girl search for items on April 24, following reported Israeli airstrikes overnight.

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  • Middle East

What to know about a possible Israeli military offensive in Rafah

In Gaza's southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought shelter and where aid groups have centralized operations, worries have grown over a possible Israeli military operation.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan,
  • Aya Batrawy,
  • and 2 more
Nimer Saddy al-Nimer, 12, was shot five times by Israel's military on April 1 while gathering food from aid dropped by parachute that landed in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza. Israeli soldiers took the boy into Israel for surgery, and, according to Nimer, placed him in a prison for four days while he recovered. He is now in a refugee camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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  • Middle East

Shot by Israeli troops while getting aid, a boy in Gaza fights for his life

UNICEF says one child is injured or killed in Gaza every 10 minutes. This is the story of a 12-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces while he was trying to get food aid.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz and
  • Anas Baba
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive UNRWA aid in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7.

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  • World

Report on UNRWA concludes Israel has not provided evidence of employees' militancy

An independent review commissioned by the United Nations did not have a mandate to investigate Israel's other claim that a dozen UNRWA employees took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

April 23, 2024
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  • Jackie Northam
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