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☆ Middle East Crisis End of Ramadan Is Marked by War and Hunger in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | Ameera Harouda | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

As Eid al-Fitr approached, Amani Abu Awda’s four children began asking her for new clothes and toys — festive items that Muslims customarily buy to celebrate the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. “Oh God, I couldn’t get anything for them because of the high prices,” she said Saturday, days before most Muslims worldwide would celebrate Eid al-Fitr. We have lost family and loved ones. Image Displaced Palestinians prepare traditional cakes before Eid al-Fitr, in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Tuesday. “I have a lot of hopes for Eid,” he said, “but firstly for them to end this revolting war.”

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A curly-haired young man shakes as he bends over the mound of smashed concrete that used to be his friend’s home. “Please God.”A father crawls over a mountain of gray concrete shards, his right ear pressed to the dust. “Said,” he cries, “didn’t I tell you to take care of your sister?”Another man on another rubble heap is looking for his wife and his children, Rahaf, 6, and Aboud, 4. “Rahaf,” he cries, leaning forward to scan the twisted pile of gray before him. “What has she done to deserve this?”Gaza has become a 140-square-mile graveyard, each destroyed building another jagged tomb for those still buried within.

Persons: Ahmed, ”, “ Salma, Said, “ Said, “ Organizations: The New York Times Locations: Gaza

☆ Middle East Crisis Ramadan Begins as Hunger and Fear Stalk Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | Rawan Sheikh Ahmad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Praying in front of a destroyed mosque in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza on Friday. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is usually a time of religious devotion, dawn-to-dusk fasting, charity, family gatherings and nightly feasts. All that seems far away this year in Gaza, now in the sixth month of an Israeli military offensive and near-total blockade. The war has erased how Palestinians here used to live and observe Ramadan. Normally in the lead-up to Ramadan, Ms. Ali would be at her home in northern Gaza preparing the house for a month of worship and festivities.

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☆ Thousands of pregnant women in Gaza suffer from malnutrition, health authorities say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Hiba Yazbek | Ameera Harouda | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Wafaa al-Kurd was nearly due to give birth, she said, she weighed less than she did before becoming pregnant and was surviving on rice and artificial juice. She gave birth to a girl weighing nearly six pounds, named Tayma, just over two weeks ago, she said. Since then, her husband has spent his days scouring markets in northern Gaza, where the family lives, trying to find enough food for his wife to breastfeed and keep Tayma alive. Nearly 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza are suffering from malnutrition, dehydration and lack of proper health care, according to the Gaza health ministry. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said that about 5,000 women in Gaza were giving birth every month in “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy conditions as a result of bombardment and displacement.”The ministry added that about 9,000 women, including thousands of mothers and pregnant women, had been killed since Israel’s bombardment and invasion began in early October.

Persons: Wafaa al, Kurd, breastfeed, Deborah Harrington Organizations: United Nations, Al Locations: Gaza, Al Aqsa

The Israeli military said it had “currently ruled out” that its aerial or artillery fire had been responsible for the strike on the shelter in Khan Younis, where the U.N. was housing about 800 people. In addition to the nine dead, 75 other people were injured, according to Thomas White, who helps oversee U.N. aid operations in Gaza. U.N. officials did not directly blame Israel, but said the shelter, in a vocational training center, had been hit by two tank rounds. “Once again a blatant disregard of basic rules of war,” Mr. Lazzarini wrote on social media. The Israeli military said that it was conducting a review of its operations in the area of the shelter.

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The Israeli military suffered the deadliest day of its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on Monday when 24 soldiers were killed, about 20 of them in an explosion as they were preparing to level buildings to help create a buffer zone with the Palestinian enclave, Israeli officials said. Israelis leaders expressed heartbreak over the deaths, but declared that the fighting would continue until Hamas was defeated. “We need to learn the necessary lessons and do everything to preserve our soldiers’ lives,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement on Tuesday. With no end of the war in sight, and the United Nations reporting that more than half a million people in Gaza were facing “catastrophic hunger,” the Israeli military pressed ahead with its offensive. Many Gazans, seeking safety in Khan Younis, had fled their homes in other parts of the territory.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel, ’, ” Mr, Khan Younis Organizations: United Nations Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza’s

☆ Israel Says Its Military Has Encircled Khan Younis in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Matthew Mpoke Bigg | Ameera Harouda | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israel’s military said on Tuesday that it had encircled the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, part of a push that has resulted in intense fighting and bombardments in an area packed with civilians who have fled their homes in other parts of the territory. The Israeli military described the area as a “significant stronghold” of Hamas’s Khan Younis brigade and said that it had killed dozens of Hamas fighters over the previous 24 hours. “Ready-to-launch rockets, military compounds, shafts, and numerous weapons were located during the activity,” the military added. The fighting has involved heavy exchanges of gunfire and a surge of Israeli tanks and troops into areas around the city’s hospitals. Displaced civilians in the area say they have no safe place to go.

Persons: Khan Younis, Hamas’s Khan Younis, “ Locations: Khan, Gaza

☆ Israel-Hamas War U.S. Says It Shot Down Houthi Missile Aimed at Navy Ship
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Vivek Shankar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

They were photographed during an escorted tour with the Israeli military. Image More than 23,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since the war began, according to Gazan health officials. Image Houthi fighters at a protest in Sana, Yemen, on Sunday against U.S.-led airstrikes targeting Houthi military sites. “Nothing’s fair in Gaza,” Mr. Sindawi said in a text message. Although the Israeli military has said it is scaling back its operations in the north, its forces continue to clash with Hamas fighters there.

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Namzi Mwafi, 23, has one job, day in and day out: find water for his family. To keep them alive, Mr. Mwafi says he wakes up at 4 a.m., spending hours waiting for water at a crowded filling station. Sometimes, he has to fight to keep his place in line and sometimes there is nothing left when his turn comes. Firewood and coal have also largely run out, so families are burning stripped-down doors, shutters and window frames, cardboard and grasses. “We went back to the Stone Age,” Mr. Mwafi said.

Persons: Namzi Mwafi, Mwafi, “, Mr Organizations: United Nations Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Egypt

The Israeli military would not answer questions about whether its forces shot and killed Palestinians trying to go back to their homes. Ahead of the cease-fire, Israel had warned Gazans that it would prohibit them from trying to move from southern Gaza to the north during the cessation in hostilities. On Friday morning, Kareem al-Nasir, 30, joined thousands of other Palestinians trying to return from central Gaza to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip. But as they tried to make their way along a road on foot, he said, Israeli forces nearby opened fire on them. “No one feels safe,” said Mohammad al-Masri, a local journalist who last week fled his home in northern Gaza to Khan Younis.

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In some hospitals, patients arriving in cardiac arrest are not resuscitated, because medical staff choose to work on patients with a greater chance of survival instead. On top of all those challenges, the hospitals have become temporary orphanages, too, according to the medical workers. The medical staff have cared for some of the children until a relative can come to take them. Doctors in two hospitals in Gaza said that, with nothing to power air-conditioners, the heat has gotten bad enough that it is making patients’ wounds fester. Medical staff need their diminishing fuel stocks to light up operating rooms instead.

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Eventually he found a ride, but he and the driver were terrified while driving from central Gaza on the enclave’s empty streets. Family members of those who could evacuate were sometimes barred from leaving, because they did not have foreign citizenship or the necessary documents, forcing people into difficult decisions. “We just want one thing: Help us to leave Gaza,” Ms. Abu Middain said. Mkhaimar Abu Sada, 58, an associate professor of political science at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, was accompanying his two sons, both in their 20s, at the Rafah crossing on Thursday. He said they had American citizenship, but that he was not allowed to leave because he has only an American green card.

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☆ In Northern Gaza, the Price of a Ride South Is Out of Reach for Many
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | More About Raja Abdulrahim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Israeli military said Saturday night that it would intensify its already punishing bombardment of the besieged enclave ahead of an expected ground invasion. Drivers were now charging between $200 and $300 to take a family south, she said. Even as Israel has told Gazans to head south, airstrikes have continued to hit that part of the enclave. “I did not go to the south mainly because I know no one there; where am I to go?” said Yasser Shaban, 57, a civil servant in Gaza City. The cousin returned to Gaza City with his surviving family members — a wounded son and his sister — to be treated at Al Shifa Hospital.

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