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Mona Al-Zanati is happy that her son is back in school, even though she lives in terror every moment he’s out of her sight. “Every hour he is away from me, I feel fear,” Al-Zanati, 45, told CBC News. “If I hear one strike or two, I just want to …
Read More »Marco Rubio says Hamas ‘must be eradicated,’ casting further doubt on Gaza’s shaky ceasefire
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday fully endorsed Israel’s war aims in the Gaza Strip, saying Hamas “must be eradicated” and throwing the future of the shaky ceasefire into further doubt. Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem at the start of a regional tour, …
Read More »Gaza’s population down 6% since start of war
The population of Gaza has fallen six per cent since the war with Israel began nearly 15 months ago as about 100,000 Palestinians left the enclave while more than 55,000 are presumed dead, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Around 45,500 Palestinians, more than half of them …
Read More »UN report finds Israel has destroyed Gaza’s health system, with ‘disregard’ for international law
Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave’s health system and raised serious concerns about the country’s compliance with international law, the UN Human Rights Office said in a report on Tuesday. The 23-page report, documenting various attacks between Oct. 12, 2023, and June 30, 2024, concluded that …
Read More »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 in ways that may be irreversible — and a picture of the environmental harm is only just beginning to emerge, as violence spreads across the region. Israel has dropped thousands of bombs, wiping out most of Gaza’s tree cover and agricultural land in addition to …
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