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Tent schools like the one where nine-year-old Ritaj Rihan was killed by gunfire this week are symbolic of the fragile hope Palestinians have for the future and the paralyzing fear they still live with today. Six months after Israel and Hamas reached the first phase of a ceasefire that was supposed to end fighting in Gaza, humanitarian organizations have given ...
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Israeli airstrike kills 4 Palestinians in Gaza, medics say
An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities said, in the latest violence to overshadow a fragile ceasefire amid a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement. CBC | World News
Read More »Gaza family says toddler released from Israeli custody found with cigarette burn marks
On March 19, the day before Eid al-Fitr, Osama Abu Nassar took his 18-month-old son, Jawad, to a supermarket east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza when eyewitnesses say he approached a restricted area and was detained by the Israeli military. CBC | World News
Read More »Last detainee from Trump’s 2025 Gaza war protest crackdown freed after a year
For Leqaa Kordia, her newfound freedom means little to her until “everybody is free.” “There is a lot of injustice in this place,” Kordia told reporters after emerging from a U.S. immigration detention centre in Texas on Monday. “There are a lot of people that shouldn’t be here in the first place. We’re going to keep fighting for them.” CBC ...
Read More »A Canadian helped build a water plant in Gaza. Now he worries about its fate as aid groups leave over new law
Foreign workers from 37 international non-governmental organizations will leave the Gaza Strip by Sunday after choosing not to comply with new registration rules imposed by Israel. The new rules include handing over lists of local and foreign staff, which the organizations say put people at risk. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump hosts 1st Board of Peace meeting, announces pledges for reconstruction-peacekeeper funding for Gaza
Five countries have committed troops for an international security force for Gaza and U.S. President Donald Trump promised billions of dollars for reconstruction of the war-torn territory, on Thursday during the first meeting of his fledgling Board of Peace. CBC | World News
Read More »Food shortages overshadow 1st Ramadan in Gaza since October ceasefire
Ramadan lanterns and string lights are appearing on streets lined with rubble in Gaza City, as Palestinians gather at damaged mosques for prayers. The UN says food aid remains insufficient for the population there. CBC | World News
Read More »IDF says it dug up Canadian soldiers’ graves to destroy Gaza tunnel
The Israel Defence Forces have given CBC News an official explanation for the destruction of a cemetery holding the remains of 22 Canadian soldiers who died serving as peacekeepers in the Middle East in the 1950s and ’60s. The IDF says they were destroying a Hamas tunnel. An officer said the IDF had dug to a depth of 20 to ...
Read More »Israel fires deadly airstrike at Gaza tent camp, Palestinian officials say
Israel fired airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 11 people, Palestinian officials said, in what the military called a response to ceasefire violations by Palestinian militant group Hamas. CBC | World News
Read More »120 unidentified bodies released by Israel, Red Cross officials in Gaza say
In an unexpected move Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it received 120 unidentified bodies of Palestinians from Israel believed to have been killed during the two-year war. Health officials in Gaza say they are beginning work to identify the remains. CBC | World News
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