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Two girls and a woman were crushed to death waiting in a crowd of people outside a bakery in the central Gaza Strip Friday as Palestinians in the war-torn enclave face an increasing threat of famine amid a worsening food crisis. CBC | World News
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Israeli army orders Gaza City suburb evacuated, spurring another displacement wave
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement on Sunday, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said. CBC | World News
Read More »Israelis hit house in northern Gaza, one of multiple strikes leaving at least 33 dead
Israeli forces killed at least 33 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including a rescue worker, health officials said, as Israeli troops deepened an incursion along the territory’s northern edge, bombarding a hospital and blowing up homes. CBC | World News
Read More »Pope calls for investigation into whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Will it change anything?
In a new book, Pope Francis called for an investigation into whether Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza constitutes a genocide, sparking intense debate about the war — and also raising questions about the tangible impact that papal statements have on Catholics and global politics. CBC | World News
Read More »Trucks carrying aid into Gaza are being violently ransacked. Here’s what we know
As many of Gaza’s more than 2.3 million people desperately wait for humanitarian assistance and food to reach them, aid trucks are being ambushed and looted before getting to their destination. We look at what we know about the groups doing the looting and the efforts to stop it. CBC | World News
Read More »He was an IDF officer, but now he says he’d rather go to jail than participate in the Gaza war
Michael Ofer-Ziv served with the command unit at Sde Teiman, where he guided troops on the ground to targets and was involved in conversations on whether there was intelligence to give the final okay to fire at them. CBC | World News
Read More »Malnutrition cases grow in Gaza, hospitals report, as little aid and food make it through
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Read More »Israeli forces’ ‘massive’ forced displacement in Gaza amounts to war crimes: report
A new Human Rights Watch report says the “massive” and “deliberate” forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel misses deadline to let more aid into Gaza, but U.S. maintains support
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours — including 11 in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said — as the country missed a deadline set by Washington to allow more humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli aid agency says it has allowed supplies into Gaza, blaming delays on humanitarian groups
An Israeli government agency tasked with co-ordinating aid deliveries to Gaza is rejecting figures reported by international organizations on the number of supply trucks entering the war-torn enclave, a day after Israel failed to meet the United States’ deadline to allow in more humanitarian assistance. CBC | World News
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