Israel ramps up strikes in Gaza
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The ramped up strikes began just hours after the Trump administration brokered the release on Monday of Edan Alexander in direct talks with Hamas.
As a 4-year-old, Ghalia Abu Moteir was driven to live in a tent in Khan Younis after her family fled their home in what’s now Israel, escaping advancing Israeli forces.
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, while another airstrike in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen people dead, authorities said.
Nakba commemorations are not yet widespread in the American Jewish community, but they are gaining more attention.
At the charity kitchen in Beit Lahiya, the hungry crowd of men, women and children jostled for position, holding out empty pots and plastic containers high in the air for a few ladles of watery vegetable soup.
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President Trump on Thursday suggested the U.S. would look to take control of the Gaza Strip and turn it into a “freedom zone,” highlighting one of his more controversial foreign policy proposals
President Donald Trump said the US should control Gaza and turn it into a “freedom zone.” He suggested his administration could oversee reconstruction efforts in the war-damaged area. His comments follow ongoing destruction after the October 2023 attack.
Palestinians across the Middle East are commemorating the anniversary of the “Nakba” -- Arabic for “the Catastrophe” -- when some 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by Israeli forces or fled their hom
Relatives mourn victims of deadly overnight Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip
An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital.