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More than $ 50 billion US will be required to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s 15-month campaign against Hamas levelled it, according to an assessment released Tuesday by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. CBC | World News
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3 Israeli hostages released in Gaza as ceasefire holds
Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha Troufanov arrived at a release site in Gaza on Saturday after Egyptian and Qatari mediators helped avert a standoff that threatened to sink a fragile ceasefire. CBC | World News
Read More »This professor once taught at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. He returned to a campus in ruins
For the first time since the war began, Muhammad Juma Khattab returned to the campus to see what’s left of it. In the piles of rubble, the professor finds burnt books, old transcripts and office furniture as he walks the spaces he used to teach in. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel will call off Gaza ceasefire if Hamas doesn’t release hostages Saturday: Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday the ceasefire in Gaza would end and the military would resume fighting Hamas until it was defeated if the Palestinian militant group did not release hostages by midday Saturday. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestinians reject Trump plan for Gaza that wouldn’t include right to return
Under Trump’s plan, Gaza’s roughly 2.2 million Palestinians would be resettled and the United States would take control and ownership of the devastated coastal enclave, redeveloping it into what Trump has called the “Riviera of the Middle East.” CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli military withdraws from key Gaza corridor, allowing more Palestinians to return home
Israeli forces withdrew from a key corridor in Gaza on Sunday, Israeli officials and Hamas said, the latest commitment under a tenuous ceasefire that faces a major test over whether the sides can negotiate its planned extension. CBC | World News
Read More »5th hostage-prisoner swap carried out as Gaza ceasefire holds
Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian detainees and prisoners in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel’s defence minister orders army to prepare for Gaza residents’ departure
Israel’s defence minister has ordered the army to prepare a plan to allow the “voluntary departure” of residents from Gaza, Israeli media said, after President Trump drew widespread condemnation over U.S. plans to take over the strip. CBC | World News
Read More »Her brother was killed during the war in Gaza. She promised she would bring him home
Shireen Talaba and her brother, Khaled, were displaced from their Gaza City home to Khan Younis when the war began. When Khaled and two of their cousins were killed, Shireen vowed that when the war ended, she would find a way to bring their bodies home. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump’s takeover proposal condemned in Gaza, celebrated in Israel
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to build into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” once he empties it of the Palestinians. The comments were greeted with pleasant surprise in Israel. But for Palestinians, it’s not just a piece of land. CBC | World News
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