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Israeli settlers attacked and beat Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to one of his fellow directors and other witnesses. CBC | World News
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Wife of detained Palestinian Columbia student says she was naive to believe he was safe from arrest
The wife of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist, said she didn’t think she and her husband, a legal U.S. permanent resident, would have to worry about immigration agents coming to their door. CBC | World News
Read More »UN relief agency resumes work in Palestinian territories despite Israeli ban
The UN Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza was still ongoing on Friday despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility towards its staff. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestinian militants begin handover of 3 Israeli hostages in latest stage of ceasefire deal
Palestinian militants began handing over three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Thursday in return for 110 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal. CBC | World News
Read More »2-year-old Palestinian girl killed in her home by Israeli military
Israeli forces shot a two-year-old girl in the head in her West Bank home on Saturday while she was eating dinner with her family, according to health officials and family members. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestinian journalists on covering the war in Gaza — and surviving it
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Read More »Gaza medics say Israeli strike killed 5 Palestinian journalists, while IDF says it hit militants
Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital on Thursday, but the Israeli army said it had attacked a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad militants. CBC | World News
Read More »‘There’s a diaper crisis in Gaza’: Palestinian mothers can’t find diapers for their babies
As the war continues to ravage the Gaza Strip, basic supplies such as diapers are harder to come by, and when they are available, are sold at expensive prices. Mothers like Asala Shehata have had to find alternatives, including washing diapers, to manage the needs of their children. CBC | World News
Read More »6 children killed as Israeli army pushes into Khan Younis area, Palestinian medics report
Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 20 people across the enclave. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestinian paramedic recounts ‘massacre’ on school shelter in northern Gaza
As one of the few paramedics left in northern Gaza, Niveen Al-Dwawsa, is often the first on the scene of airstrikes, where she treats as many wounded people as she can. She used her phone to record what she saw while responding to the aftermath of an attack on a school shelter in Jabalia on Oct. 21. CBC | World News
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