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...More than 100 of the hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during a week-long ceasefire in November....
...Palestinians across Gaza and the West Bank have long reported one of the highest literacy levels in the Arab world in spite of decades of occupation and a 17-year blockade of the strip....
...But humanitarian officials say Israel’s long list of banned items and cumbersome inspection process act as a bottleneck....
...How long will our bodies hold out?” The shelves in Gaza’s grocery stores are empty of all but a few basic goods such as tinned meat, beans and cheese....
...A week-long ceasefire in late November facilitated the release of more than 100 Israeli hostages, but diplomatic efforts towards a renewed agreement have stalled....
...the summer of 1994, 10 months after Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation signed the Oslo Accords, a historic breakthrough many hoped would lead to a sustainable settlement of their decades-long...
...“Children are living through a long horror film under constant bombardment,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, programme director at Defense for Children International-Palestine, a civil society group....
...As the truce came into force, Gazans waited in long queues outside aid distribution centres managed by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, to collect bags of flour that had just arrived via the...
...Medical experts warn that such widespread loss will have a long-term psychological impact....
...After a long journey on foot, donkey cart and car, relatives could not accommodate the Fatehi family....
...Al-Shifa, which Israel says sits on top of a dense network of underground tunnels housing Hamas command centres, has become one of the main focuses of Israel’s three-week long ground offensive, triggering...
...In Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza, Mohamed al-Najjar, 45, stood in a long queue in front of a water distribution point....
...Israel and Hamas have resumed fighting, ending a week-long truce in Gaza that international mediators had hoped to extend to an eighth day....
...The overcrowded room that Ahmed, 25, shares with five other serious burns victims experiences power cuts for long periods of the day....
...I will also try to buy a gallon of water, but that requires another long wait.” She broke down in tears when her son started screaming for a drink of water....
...The Israeli raid was the climax of a days-long siege of al-Shifa that had triggered widespread fears over the fate of patients in the facility, along with thousands of people who have sought sanctuary there...
...Israel’s month-long aerial and artillery bombardment has been followed by a ground operation that has this week taken Israeli forces to the “heart of Gaza City”, in the north of the coastal strip....
...About 2.3mn people in the 40km-long Palestinian enclave, almost half of them children, are fast running out of drinking water, fresh food and fuel to keep generators in hospitals running....
...Some 2.3mn people are packed in the narrow, 41km long Gaza Strip which Israel has bombarded from land, air and sea since Hamas militants attacked the Jewish state on October 7....
...The US president offered wholehearted support to Israel during a day-long visit to the country and later unveiled a deal to allow the first humanitarian aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip....
...Cairo has long had concerns that Israel wants to push its troubles with Gaza on to Egypt....
...Rachel Reeves delivered the Mais Lecture last night....
...Since the end of a week-long truce on December 1, Israeli forces have intensified air and land attacks on the city, sending fresh waves of people fleeing towards Rafah....
...Spare me, please, another long read about the bitter atmosphere in the UK after 14 years of Conservative rule. Of course it is bitter....
...The shadow chancellor confirmed in her Mais lecture in the City of London that Labour would also match Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s fiscal rule that overall public debt should fall year on year as a share...
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