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An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 20 people at a school in central Gaza, according to local hospitals
Gaza is in ruins after Israel's yearlong offensive. Rebuilding may take decades
The Gaza Strip is in ruins. There are hills of rubble where apartment blocks stood, and pools of sewage-tainted water spreading disease. City streets have been churned into dirt canyons and, in many places, the air is filled with the stench of unrecovered corpses. ...
Takeaways from AP's report on the destruction in Gaza a year into the war
Israel's yearlong offensive against Hamas, launched in response to the militant group's Oct. 7 attack into Israel, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused staggering destruction across the Gaza Strip that could take decades to rebuild. Hundreds of thousands of people...
Pope Francis suggests Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon are disproportionate and immoral
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Sunday that Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, saying its military domination has gone beyond the rules of war. Francis was asked en route home from Belgium about Israel’s...
Head of Palestinian Authority appeals to world to stop "genocidal war" in Gaza, declares: "We will not leave."
Bernie Sanders preparing resolutions to block $20B in US arms sales to Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel, a longshot effort but the most substantive pushback yet from Congress over the devastation in Gaza ahead of the first year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas...
An American activist killed by Israeli fire is buried in Turkey as Israel strikes Gaza
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising from a conflict that threatens to spread across the region....
UN food agency intensifies calls for Gaza cease-fire after staff come under fire
ROME (AP) — An Israeli airstrike last month demolished the top floor of a guest house in Gaza where World Food Program international staff were staying, the U.N. agency’s director said Thursday, calling the situation “impossibly dangerous” for aid workers trying to feed the Palestinian...
Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza and kill at least 34 people, hospitals say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said. A U.N. official said six staffers were...