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☆ Hezbollah is not Hamas. Can Israel afford another all-out war?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Since October 8, the day after Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel, there has been regular cross-border fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli military. Hezbollah first fired at Israel to protest the war in Gaza, demanding a ceasefire there as a condition to end its attacks. Should Israel enter full-scale war with Hezbollah, experts say it will face a much stronger threat than Hamas – and commensurate costs. “It’s devastating on the Israeli economy, on Israeli society,” Guzansky said, adding that the impacts will live on for years to come. Domestically, while Israelis showed a greater appetite for fighting at the outset of the Gaza war, polls show that domestic support has waned over the last months.

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☆ Hezbollah fires rockets deep into northern Israel as tensions flare. Here’s what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

On Saturday Israel pounded Hezbollah targets with nearly 300 strikes it what they described as preemptive action to thwart a planned attack. Hezbollah meanwhile has been launching a barrage of rockets and other projectiles at Israel in what it says is retaliation for Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Israel meanwhile fired nearly 300 projectiles into southern Lebanon on Saturday in what the military said was pre-emptive action against a planned Hezbollah attack. Israel continued its strikes into Sunday, with Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reporting two people were killed Sunday morning in southern Lebanon. Speaking on Sunday, Netanyahu again put the focus on ensuring the return of Israel citizens to their homes in northern Israel and to restore security in that region.

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Palestinians returned to the eastern side of Khan Younis in Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli forces pulled out of the area. The Israeli military has designated just one area of the Gaza Strip as a “humanitarian zone” for displaced people — and that area keeps shrinking. In the latest downsizing, the military on Saturday ordered the evacuation of two more parts of central Gaza that had been part of the humanitarian zone. Since last week, Israel has evacuated more than a fifth of the area that it had previously declared a humanitarian zone. There is no more place for any tents at the beach or in Mawasi,” he added, referring to the humanitarian zone.

Persons: Khan Younis, Philippe Lazzarini, Mr, Lazzarini, Mohammed Harbi, Harbi, Duaa, ”, Fura, “, Osama, Sammak, Abu Bakr Bashir, Ameera Harouda Organizations: Saturday, United Nations, New York Times, Hamas, “, Sunday Locations: Gaza, Israel, Deir al, ISRAEL, Rafah EGYPT Rafah, Kerem Shalom, Rafah EGYPT, Shalom, Rafah, Khan, Nuseirat, Bureij, Deir, Mawasi, London, Doha, Qatar, Istanbul

☆ Israel is blocking physicians with Palestinian heritage from entering Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Yahya Abou-Ghazala | Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Suleiman’s denial is part of a policy recently communicated to medical missions going into Gaza through Israel. Before the war, Palestinian medics and medics of Palestinian heritage who held other passports could apply to Israel for entry into Gaza and have no issues getting approval. Ambulances lined up in front of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing during a visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on March 23. “We reiterate that we STRONGLY advice (sic) against any attempt of entering Gaza with a Palestinian background/roots,” the email stated. The ad disclosed that “applicants with a Palestinian ID or Palestinian roots are not allowed into Gaza.” The post has since been deleted.

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CNN —Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Friday claimed responsibility for a deadly drone blast in Tel Aviv, the Iranian proxy group’s latest attack in what it says is a response to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The drone that caused the explosion was detected by an Israeli aerial defense system, but not intercepted due to “human error,” an Israeli military official said. The Israeli military is investigating the attack and does not believe further threats are imminent, the official said. An investigator inspects a damaged window of a building at the site of an explosion in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2024. The drone attack in Tel Aviv Friday comes after the Houthis claimed earlier this month that they had targeted ships in the Israeli port of Haifa with a number of drones in joint military operations with Iran-backed militias based in Iraq.

Persons: Yemen’s, Houthi, Yahya Sare’e, ”, ” Sare’e, Ricardo Moraes, Israel’s Magen David Adom, “, Roi Klein, ’ Organizations: CNN, Embassy, Israel Defense Forces, Reuters, US Embassy, US State Department, MDA, Police, IDF Locations: Tel Aviv, Gaza, Jerusalem, Shalom, Tel, Aviv, Red, Israel, Haifa, Iran, Iraq

☆ Tel Aviv, Israel, explosion near US Embassy branch office kills one after possible drone attack, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Eugenia Yosef | Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An explosion near the US Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv that killed at least one person early Friday is being investigated as a possible drone attack, according to Israeli authorities. The blast occurred about 100 meters (330 feet) from the compound of the US Embassy branch office, according to a CNN analysis of open-source satellite imagery of the scene. The United States is closely monitoring the situation, a government official told CNN, acknowledging that an explosion happened near the branch office. An investigator inspects a damaged window of a building at the site of an explosion in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2024. A person walks down the stairs of a building damaged from a blast in Tel-Aviv on July 19, 2024.

Persons: Israel’s Magen David Adom, Ricardo Moraes, “, Roi Klein Organizations: CNN, Embassy, US Embassy, Israel Defense Forces, Police, MDA, Reuters Police Locations: Tel Aviv, United States, Shalom, Tel, Aviv

☆ Opinion: In Gaza, fear of ‘the war after the war’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Opinion Arwa Damon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Without rule of law, without a peacekeeping force, without humanitarian aid, Gaza will combust and descend into civil chaos. This route is used by both commercial and aid trucks, as well as convoys like the one I am in, transporting aid workers. Palestinians storm trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new US-built pier in central Gaza on May 18. They are waiting to ambush aid trucks, but they smile and wave at our far less tempting UN-marked jeeps. A fear of “the war after the war.” Some believe it has started already.

Persons: Arwa Damon, Arwa Damon CNN, Kerem Shalom, Karam Abu Salem, “, Karam Abu, Benjamin Netanyahu, Abdel Kareem Hana, David Satterfield, Menahem Kahana, ”, I’ve Organizations: CNN, International Network for Aid, Relief, Gazans, ”, Israel’s, KS, State Department, Carnegie Endowment, Coordination Locations: Gaza, Rafah, Egypt, Israel, Karam Abu Salem, Middle East, Kerem, AFP, Israeli, Territories, COGAT, shrugging, Baghdad

The nine-month war in Gaza nearly took Julia’s life, as the fighting and displacement cut off her access to treatment. Around a month into the war, Julia ran out of three of the five medications she was taking, Dareen told CNN. “Ibrahim and I were the only two survivors,” Alaa told CNN, adding that the airstrike killed 30 members of their family. “We lived through hunger, the main ingredients for food weren’t there,” Alaa told CNN. I can’t be her mother and father at the same time.” she told CNN.

Persons: Julia Abu Zeiter, Dareen, Julia, ” Dareen, Dr, Ahmed Mubarak, Mubarak, Mari Carmen Viñoles, Israel, Giuseppe Cacace, Ibrahim, Alaa, “ Ibrahim, ” Alaa, ” Ibrahim, Ali Moustafa, Israel’s, “, ”, James Elder Organizations: Egypt CNN —, CNN, United Arab, Leukemia, Getty, Palestine Children’s Relief, Integrated, United Nations, ” UNICEF, “ Locations: Arish, Egypt, Gaza, United Arab Emirates, Israel’s Kerem Shalom, Abu Dhabi, Sinai, Rafah, Israel, UAE, Egypt's Arish, AFP, US, Julia, Jabalya

☆ Cigarette Smuggling in Gaza Turns Aid Trucks Into Targets
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | Natan Odenheimer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A new problem is bedeviling humanitarian aid convoys attempting to deliver relief to hungry Gazans: attacks by organized crowds seeking not the flour and medicine that trucks are carrying, but cigarettes smuggled inside the shipments. In tightly blockaded Gaza, cigarettes have become increasingly scarce, now generally selling for $25 to $30 apiece. U.N. and Israeli officials say the coordinated attacks by groups seeking to sell smuggled cigarettes for profit pose a formidable obstacle to bringing desperately needed aid to southern Gaza. But the cigarettes have managed to slip through for weeks inside aid trucks, mostly through Kerem Shalom crossing into southern Gaza. Aid trucks that set off from the crossing into Gaza were then attacked by crowds of Palestinians, some of them armed, seeking the cigarettes hidden inside, according to U.N. and Israeli officials.

Persons: —, Egypt —, Andrea De Domenico Organizations: United Nations, New York Times, Aid, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Gaza, Kerem Shalom, Egypt, Jerusalem

CNN —Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, latest UN figures show. The number of displaced people rose from 1.7 million since Israel launched its offensive on the southern city of Rafah in May. Smoke rises after Israeli bombardment of Gaza City, July 4, 2024. One man displaced in Khan Younis told CNN about the hours needed to get hold of small amounts of clean water. Dining utensils need to be cleaned,” Zakaria Bakr, from the Al-Shati camp, told CNN Saturday.

Persons: Omar Al, ”, Khan Younis, ” Zakaria Bakr Organizations: CNN, UN, Israel Defense Forces, UNRWA, Israel, Humanitarian Affairs, Getty, Hamas, Civil Defense, IDF, Al, Gaza’s, Health Locations: Gaza, Rafah, Israel, Hamas, Gaza City, AFP, Shujaya, Nuseirat, COGAT

“People started stealing just to eat… Sick children cannot withstand famine.”Umm Ubaida comforts her daughter, Yasmin, aged 5, in Nasser Hospital, on Tuesday. CNNCNN footage from Nasser Hospital on Tuesday showed another evacuee – five-year-old blood cancer patient Yasmin – squirming in pain, her emaciated limbs sprawled on a teal mattress. Among those are 980 children with cancer – including 250 patients who could face “certain death” – the ministry reported on Friday. Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed 37,718 Palestinians and injured another 86,377 people, according to Gaza health officials. Brothers Amjad, aged 2, and Ahmad, aged 7, are shown in Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, before their medical evacuation to Egypt.

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CNN —The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says at least 22 people were killed in a strike that hit civilians sheltering in southern Gaza on Friday. The strike hit the tents of displaced people in the Palestinian town of Mawasi, parts of which have been identified by the Israeli military as a humanitarian zone. Following the strike, a nearby Red Cross field hospital received 22 bodies and 45 injured, the ICRC said. The Gaza Ministry of Health said that 25 people were killed and 50 wounded in the attack. The Israeli military said the incident was under review but initial inquiries found “no indication” it was behind the strike in Mawasi.

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A truck carrying aid for delivery into Gaza drives through the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, on June 17. Netanyahu then contacted his military secretary and said this was unacceptable, until he was assured the fighting in Rafah would continue. It raises the question of where the “tactical pause” order originated, but it’s expected to continue. Israeli security minister Ben Gvir — a leading right-wing member of the country’s cabinet — condemned the pause. Fighting and deadly strikes: Fierce fighting and airstrikes have rocked Rafah as the Israeli effort to destroy Hamas in Gaza continues.

Persons: Nathan Frandino, Salah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Ben Gvir —, —, ”, Ahmed Radwan Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, CNN, Rafah Civil Defense Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Kerem, Kerem Shalom

☆ Middle East Crisis Israeli Military Says Hezbollah’s Strikes Risk ‘Wider Escalation’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Mike Ives | Randy Pennell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The change did not mean a cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, that statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost city of Rafah was continuing. The whipsaw statements appeared to reflect the competing pressures facing Mr. Netanyahu, as he juggles demands from the Biden administration and elsewhere around the globe with those of his own hawkish government. But Mr. Netanyahu insinuated that he did not learn of the plans until Sunday morning. Image Children waiting for food in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday. Credit... Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock“It’s classic Bibi,” said Amos Harel, the military affairs analyst for the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, referring to Mr. Netanyahu by his nickname.

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The Israeli military said on Monday that it had paused operations during daylight hours in parts of the southern Gaza Strip, as a new policy announced a day earlier appeared to take hold, along with cautious hopes that it would allow more food and other goods to reach desperate civilians. Aid workers said they hoped that the daily pause in the Israeli offensive would make it less dangerous to deliver vital supplies to areas in central and southern Gaza from Kerem Shalom, a key border crossing between Israel and Gaza, removing one of many obstacles to their beleaguered operations. But aid agencies warned that other restrictions on movement, as well as lawlessness in the territory, would still make it difficult to meet the dire needs of Gazans struggling to survive after eight months of war. With stockpiles in southern Gaza dwindling, “maybe for a couple of weeks they’ll have enough food, but if we cannot have access and sustain that, then that’s going to be a big problem,” said Carl Skau, the deputy director of the World Food Program, an arm of the United Nations that distributes food in Gaza. Food supplies in southern Gaza were “more stabilized a month ago, but we are really concerned now,” said Mr. Skau, who visited Gaza last week.

Persons: ”, Carl Skau, Skau Organizations: Food Program, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Kerem, Israel

☆ Israeli Daytime Pause in Combat Appears to Take Hold in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Shashank Bengali | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The change did not mean a cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, that statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost city of Rafah was continuing. The whipsaw statements appeared to reflect the competing pressures facing Mr. Netanyahu, as he juggles demands from the Biden administration and elsewhere around the globe with those of his own hawkish government. But Mr. Netanyahu insinuated that he did not learn of the plans until Sunday morning. Image Children waiting for food in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday. At least 10 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat this weekend and an 11th died of wounds sustained days earlier.

☆ Israeli military announces 'tactical pause' in attempt to increase flow of aid into hard-hit Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Sunday announced a "tactical pause" in its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to allow the deliveries of increased quantities of humanitarian aid. It said the pause was being coordinated with the U.N. and international aid agencies. That was down from 168 a day in April and far below the 500 trucks a day that aid groups say are needed. The flow of aid in southern Gaza declined just as the humanitarian need grew. COGAT, the Israeli military body that oversees aid distribution in Gaza, says there are no restrictions on the entry of trucks.

Persons: Salah, Israel's Organizations: Humanitarian Relief Foundation, Sunday Locations: Gaza, JERUSALEM, Rafah, Israel, COGAT

☆ Middle East Crisis Israel Announces Daytime Pause in Fighting in Part of Southern Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Vivek Shankar | Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Kerem Shalom sits at the intersection of Gaza, Egypt and Israel, which controls the gateway. The Israeli military later clarified that the pause would be limited and that there would be “no cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip.”“The fighting in Rafah is continuing,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman, said on social media. Distributing that aid, Israeli officials said, would be contingent on relief agencies, on whom they called to pick up the supplies. Aid groups have said that the Israeli military’s activity in southern Gaza has made distributing aid nearly impossible. Data compiled by the U.N. show that the number of aid trucks entering southern Gaza remains well below the levels before the incursion in Rafah.

Persons: Salah al, Kerem Shalom, Daniel Hagari, Israel Organizations: Hamas, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Israel, Kerem, Egypt, Rafah, Kerem Shalom, United States, Qatar

☆ Israel announces ‘pause’ along southern Gaza route to allow in aid but no let up in Rafah offensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Abeer Salman | Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Jerusalem CNN —The Israeli military has announced a “tactical pause” of military activity along a route in southern Gaza to allow aid to be distributed but stressed that there would be no let up in fighting in and around Rafah in southern Gaza. A bottleneck of aid has built up at Kerem Shalom amid airstrikes and fighting in much of southern Gaza. It will be run in coordination with international organizations, it said, as part of efforts to increase volumes of aid reaching Gaza. Egyptian trucks carrying humanitarian aid make their way to the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom crossing on May 30, 2024. Those are Kerem Shalom on Gaza’s southern border and Western Erez in the north.

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CNN —The Biden administration on Friday imposed sanctions on an Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian convoys headed to Gaza. The sanctions against the organization are the latest punitive measure taken under an executive order targeting those perpetrating violence in the West Bank. “They also have damaged aid trucks and dumped life-saving humanitarian aid onto the road. President Joe Biden signed an executive order earlier this year allowing sanctions on those causing West Bank violence. The order has been used to roll out sanctions on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in recent months.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, Matthew Miller, “, ”, Miller, Joe Biden, CNN’s Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails Organizations: CNN, US Treasury Department, US State Department, West Bank, ”, Biden, Reuters Locations: Gaza, Kerem, Jordan, Hebron, Israel

☆ Australian billionaire proposes secure gate system to supply aid to Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —An Australian billionaire is offering to build a secure gate system on the Israel-Gaza border that he says could allow 10,000 metric tons of food aid to be delivered each day to starving Palestinians. He’s also committed $5 million to improve the Jordanian humanitarian land corridor by building storage warehouses to allow more aid to pass to Gaza. Cargo trucks carrying humanitarian aid move through security inspections before crossing into the Gaza Strip, in Kerem Shalom, Israel on March 14. The IDF has repeatedly said hundreds of trucks carrying humanitarian aid have been entering the Gaza Strip, but aid organizations say the supplies are not reaching civilians in need. The passage of aid into Gaza has become gridlocked by Israeli inspections, and in some cases the temporary closure of access points.

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☆ Here’s what Gaza’s humanitarian aid crisis looks like after eight months of war
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Rachel Wilson | Sana Noor Haq | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Here is a breakdown of how the aid crisis has deepened in the territory after 245 days of war. Crossing closures nearly halt all aidIsrael’s restrictions on land routes into Gaza meant aid was barely trickling into the strip. Aid workers say they can barely meet humanitarian demands on the ground. Israeli attacks on aid convoys have sparked fierce condemnation from rights groups, drawing attention to growing Western skepticism of Israel’s war in Gaza. The attacks “reveal fundamental flaws with the so-called deconfliction system, meant to protect aid workers,” according to the report.

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☆ Israel Pushes Into Central Rafah in Southern Gaza Offensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | Lauren Leatherby | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Credit... Jehad Alshrafi/Associated PressThe Israeli military said on Friday that its forces had advanced into central Rafah, pushing even deeper into the southern Gaza city despite an international backlash and pressure from allies to scale back the latest offensive. Israeli commandoes backed by tanks and artillery were operating in central Rafah, the Israeli military said in a statement, without specifying precise locations. GAZA STRIP Area of image Central Rafah GAZA Israeli military vehicles EGYPT GAZA STRIP Area of image Central Rafah GAZA Israeli military vehicles EGYPT Much of eastern Rafah has been devastated since the offensive began in early May, particularly around the border crossing with Egypt, according to satellite photos from May 22. Israel captured the Rafah crossing in an overnight operation on May 7 that marked the beginning of their assault on the area. May 5 RAFAH Rafah crossing 1 mile May 22 GAZA STRIP Area of image Area of most damage Rafah crossing Source: Satellite imagery from Planet Labs The Rafah crossing has served as a vital conduit for getting humanitarian aid into Gaza amid widespread deprivation and hunger.

Persons: Jehad, Israel Organizations: Associated Press, United Nations, International Court of Justice, Planet Labs, Labs Locations: Rafah, Israel, Gaza, Egypt, United States, GAZA, Rafah GAZA, EGYPT GAZA, EGYPT, RAFAH Rafah, Palestinian

The World Food Programme (WFP) is currently serving only 27,000 people in Rafah, according to Matthew Hollingworth, the organization’s country director in Gaza. Rafah had previously been the central artery for aid to flow into Gaza, as the only border crossing not controlled by Israel. Israel’s military has continued to push further into Rafah, defying international concern and anger over its operations in the city. “IDF troops in central Rafah located Hamas rocket launchers, terror tunnel shafts, and weapons. Hollingworth added that the WFP’s warehouse in Rafah, which was once capable of storing 2,700 tons of food, is no longer operational.

Persons: Matthew Hollingworth, ” Hollingworth, ”, Hollingsworth, Jack Guez, Israel, Erez, Hollingworth, – Organizations: CNN, United, Food Programme, Getty, WFP, Israel Defense Forces, “, UN, IDF Locations: United Nations, Rafah, Gaza, Israel, AFP, Egypt, ”, May, Kerem, Erez

☆ Access to Aid in Gaza Was Dire. Now, It’s Worse.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Amy Schoenfeld Walker | Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Access to Aid in Gaza Was Dire. Israel closed that crossing as well as the Rafah crossing, where a majority of aid had been coming in. Nearly 300 aid trucks had crossed there in a single day just before the incursion. COGAT, the Israeli military agency coordinating aid delivery, has said that increasing the amount of aid going into Gaza remains a priority. But just a quarter of that amount arrives on average each day since the closure of Rafah crossing, according to U.N. data.

Persons: ”, Israel, Biden, Georgios Petropoulos, it's, ” Erez, Erez, Kerem Shalom, Abdel Fattah al, Ahmad Ezzat, Scott Anderson, Anderson, Petropoulos, —, Khan Younis, Mr Organizations: International Court, Justice, Central Kitchen, U.S ., United, Aid, Egyptian Red, UNRWA, Kerem, U.S, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Food Program Locations: Gaza, Southern, Israel, Rafah, Ashdod, Kerem Shalom, United Nations, “, Erez, Israel GAZA, EGYPT, U.S, Egypt, Kerem, Egyptian, Israeli

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