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A displaced child carries filled water bottles at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids’ futures
Palestinian children in Gaza are now entering their second school year with no chance of going to school. Schools across the territory shut down soon after Israel launched its assault on the territory in October after Hamas’ attack.
September 7, 2024
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza after first case in 25 years
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies have begun a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip. They hope to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war.
September 2, 2024
CAPTION CORRECTION: Displaced infant Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian, 11-month-old, who suffers from polio, is carried by his mother, center, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza
Ten-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian is the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza and he’s now paralyzed in the leg.
August 27, 2024
A woman sits on a bed in a room of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Hospital in central Gaza empties out as Israeli forces draw near
One of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals has been emptying out in recent days as Israel has ordered the evacuation of nearby areas.
August 26, 2024
Displaced Palestinians gather for food distribution in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking ‘humanitarian zone’ where food is scarce
August 24, 2024
Mourners march during a funeral with the bodies of Palestinians Ahmed Abu Arra from the town of Aqaba, left, and Raafat Dawasa from the town of Silat Al-Harithiya, both draped in the Hamas flag and killed in an Israeli strike in the Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Jenin, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. Israel's military said Saturday it struck a "terrorist cell" in Jenin. The Palestinian health ministry there said two bodies were taken to a government hospital; Hamas claimed the two men as commanders in its military wing.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Quintuplets among Gaza’s dead as Blinken visits the region to seek a cease-fire deal
The latest Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 29 people, including young quintuplets. The bombardment came as U.S.
August 19, 2024
A Palestinian carries his belongings as he evacuates Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, as part of a mass evacuation ordered by the Israeli military ahead of an operation, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli airstrike kills 18 members of a family in Gaza as mediators hope for a cease-fire
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed at least 18 people, all from the same family. Saturday’s strike came hours after officials from the United States, Egypt and Qatar wrapped up two days of cease-fire talks and expressed optimism that a deal can be reached.
August 17, 2024
Palestinian mourners carry their loved one for burial at the cemetery in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
As Gaza death toll passes 40,000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered graves
With the death toll in Gaza surpassing 40,000 after 10 months of war, the small, densely packed territory is crammed with bodies. Families are often on the run and must bury their dead wherever possible.
August 15, 2024
FILE - Palestinians bury the bodies of people who were killed in fighting with Israel and returned to Gaza by the Israeli military, during a mass funeral in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry says
The Health Ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war. The announcement on Thursday comes as new efforts are underway to broker a cease-fire to the conflict, now in its 11th month.
August 15, 2024
A Palestinian man mourns his 4-day-old twin relatives, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as he holds their birth certificates, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli strikes on Gaza leave children without parents and parents without children testing >lead > video
A 3-month-old infant was the only member of her family to survive an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip late Monday. A few miles to the north, a man lost his wife and their twin newborns in another strike.
August 14, 2024
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from Hamad City, following an evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave parts of the southern area of Khan Younis, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel widens evacuation orders in southern Gaza. Hamas wants plans for a deal instead of more talks
The Israeli military has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza a day after health authorities said an airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians.
August 12, 2024
A Palestinian man mourns for a relative killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school used as a shelter kills at least 80, Palestinian officials say
Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 80 people in a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza City. Nearly 50 others were wounded. A witness says it struck early Saturday during prayers at a mosque in the building.
August 10, 2024
A Palestinian youth flees the Khan Younis area of the Gaza Strip, following Israeli military evacuation orders, saying its forces will soon operate there, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli troops launch a new assault into Gaza’s Khan Younis as mediators push for cease-fire talks
Israeli troops have launched a new assault into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The military says they’re targeting Hamas fighters who they claim still operate there despite repeated offensives.
August 9, 2024
Displaced child Sham al-Hessi, center, who suffers from skin disease, is covered with skin cream as she poses for a picture, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024. Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana )
Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza’s tent camps
Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes.
July 31, 2024
A Palestinian child inspects the rubble of a school destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli airstrike hits a school sheltering people in Gaza, killing at least 30 including children
Israeli airstrikes have hit a school being used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza and killed at least 30 people including seven children.
July 27, 2024
Amal Abdel-Hadi, left, and Nour Abdel-Hadi, right, react over their 2-year-old wounded niece, Siwar, as she receives treatment at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the sole survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings. She becomes one of thousands of children orphaned in Israel's campaign in Gaza against Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza’s ranks of thousands of orphans
Two-year-old Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the lone survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings. Siwar was left with burns on her face, collapsed lungs and shrapnel wounds.
July 26, 2024
Smoke rises following Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone as war’s toll passes 39,000 Palestinians
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in Gaza it has designated a humanitarian zone. The military says Hamas militants have embedded themselves in the area and civilians should evacuate the zone’s eastern part.
July 22, 2024
Palestinians hold the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Sunday, July 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel’s latest airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 15 including children
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 15 people including women and children overnight in Gaza. That’s according to hospital officials and a body count by an Associated Press journalist on Sunday.
July 21, 2024
Oil tanks burn at the port in Hodeidah, Yemen, Saturday, July 20, 2024. The Israeli army said it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day. (AP Photo)
Israeli military says it has struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to attacks
The Israeli army says it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day.
July 20, 2024
Palestinian children displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip take part in an entertaining activity organised by local activists, at a United-Nation run school, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Bedwetting, nightmares and shaking. War in Gaza takes a mental health toll, especially on children
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health, with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war.
July 18, 2024
Palestinian Mahmoud Mikdad morns as holding the body of his 21-month-old child Yaman, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Gaza father mourns his baby boy, killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike
A father in Gaza is mourning a baby boy killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike. Outside a hospital, Mahmoud Mikdad cradles the boy in his lap, unable or unwilling to say goodbye. Flies circle and land in the child’s soft hair. His name was Yamam.
July 17, 2024
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli strikes in southern, central Gaza kill more than 60 Palestinians, including in ‘safe zone’
Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza, including a blast that hit an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people.
July 17, 2024
An Israeli soldier moves on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Hamas says Gaza cease-fire talks haven’t paused and claims military chief survived Israeli strike
Hamas says Gaza cease-fire talks continue and the group’s military commander is in good health a day after the Israeli military targeted Mohammed Deif with a massive airstrike that local health officials say killed at least 90 people including children.
July 15, 2024
In this image taken from video, Palestinians returned to scenes of destruction in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood on Thursday, July 11, 2024, after Israeli troops withdrew following a two-week offensive. (AP Photo)
Emergency workers uncover dozens of bodies in a Gaza City district after Israeli assault
Civil defense workers in Gaza have been digging bodies out of collapsed buildings and pulling them off rubble-covered streets.
July 12, 2024
A Palestinian woman hugs her son wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israeli military orders the evacuation of Gaza City, an early target of its war with Hamas
The Israeli military has urged all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south. The evacuation orders issued Wednesday indicated that Israel was pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of the embattled territory that has killed dozens of people over the past 48 ho
July 10, 2024
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Airstrike kills 25 in southern Gaza as Israeli assault on Gaza City shuts down medical facilities
An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza has killed at least 25 Palestinians.
July 10, 2024
Israeli soldiers move near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, July 8, 2024. Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip's largest city in pursuit of militants who had regrouped there, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing on Monday from an area ravaged in the early weeks of the nine-month-long war. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza City as Hamas warns that escalation threatens cease-fire talks
Israeli forces are advancing deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest city in pursuit of militants who have regrouped there.
July 9, 2024
Relatives mourn over the body of a Palestinian man killed in an Israeli airstrike on a U.N.-run school-turned-shelter that killed at least 16 people in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 6, 2024, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel’s military said it struck several “terrorists” operating in the area of the school and had tried to lessen the risk to civilians. (AP Photo/Saher Alghorra)
Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire in Gaza after dropping key demand, officials say
A Hamas official and an Egyptian official say Hamas has given initial approval for a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel commit up front to a complete end to the war.
July 6, 2024
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, walk past sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israeli strikes kill 6 in Gaza, including kids and UN worker, as truce talks show signs of progress
Separate Israeli airstrikes have killed at least six people in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one person wearing a United Nations uniform.
July 6, 2024
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo /Jehad Alshrafi)
Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ where food is scarce and Israel strikes without warning
Palestinian hospital authorities and witnesses say an Israeli airstrike slammed into a residential building right next to the main medical center in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
July 3, 2024
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