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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted recent convoys. It blamed the breakdown of law and order in large part on Israeli policies. CBC | World News
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The Israel-Hamas war has wiped out most of Gaza’s farm land. The environmental costs are adding up
The Israel-Hamas war has devastated Gaza’s landscape in ways that may be irreversible, and a picture of the environmental harm is only beginning to emerge as violence spreads across the region. CBC | World News
Read More »Gaza’s Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic. What does it mean for the territory?
The Gaza Health Ministry on Monday declared the Gaza Strip an “epidemic area” for polio. It said the presence of the virus is due to the destruction of critical infrastructure during the Israel-Hamas war. International organizations are calling for an immediate ceasefire to stop the possible spread of polio in Gaza and beyond. CBC | World News
Read More »Periods are a nightmare in Gaza’s crowded, unsanitary camps. Women are using birth control to skip them
Samah El-Nazli, a mother of four living in a makeshift tent in Rafah, is among millions of Gazans in overcrowded camps struggling to access food, water and sanitation as the war continues. She and others are opting to use birth control to delay their periods rather than scrambling to find costly feminine hygiene products. CBC | World News
Read More »This week’s airstrike against a food convoy adds to Gaza’s already high death toll for aid workers
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Read More »Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital in ruins after Israeli troops withdraw
Israeli forces have withdrawn from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a two-week operation, the Israeli military said on Monday, leaving behind a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian bodies scattered in the dirt of the complex. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel says it has killed 90 gunmen since raiding Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital this week
Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had killed around 90 gunmen in a raid on Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, an allegation the militant Hamas group denied. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli military launches night raid on Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
The Israeli military said on Monday its troops raided the compound of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, in an operation Palestinian health authorities said had caused multiple casualties and set off a fierce fire in one of the buildings. CBC | World News
Read More »Hospital district battered in fighting around Gaza’s Khan Younis
Israeli tanks bombarded areas around two hospitals in Gaza’s main southern city, Khan Younis, on Thursday, forcing displaced people to scramble for safe shelter, residents said, in an offensive Israel says is targeting Hamas militants. CBC | World News
Read More »Fighting in Gaza’s 2nd-largest city nears key hospital as Israel-Hamas war rages on
Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants Wednesday near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city, where medics said hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people were trapped by the fighting. CBC | World News
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