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Deadly Israel strikes on Gaza trigger rocket fire retaliation

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes Friday, killing more than 15 people, including a top militant, and triggering a barrage of retaliatory rocket fire from the territory.

AFP

Senior militant among more than 15 dead as Israel strikes Gaza

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A senior militant from Islamic Jihad was among more than 15 people killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip Friday, prompting the militant group to warn Israel has made a "declaration of war".

AFP

Senior militant among 4 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A senior militant from Islamic Jihad was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip Friday, prompting the militant group to warn Israel has "started a war".

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Palestinian militants fire rockets at Israel after Gaza air strikes

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Friday in response to Israeli airstrikes which killed at least 10 people, including a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.

Reuters

Israel hits Gaza with air attacks as tensions escalate

At least 10 people killed – including an Islamic Jihad commander and a young girl – and 55 wounded in the raids.

Al Jazeera

Israel border closure may force Gaza power plant shutdown: official

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Gaza's only power station is at risk of imminent shutdown due to a lack of fuel, its manager warned Thursday as Israel's complete closure on the territory reached a third day.

AFP

Israeli Army Says Hamas Is Rebuilding Capabilities in Gaza

The Israeli army said on Wednesday that Hamas has rebuilt some of the capabilities that were damaged during last year's Gaza war, including three new tunnels and a series of weapons manufacturing and storage sites. The army published aerial imagery and maps showing what it said are tunnels, weapons factories…

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Palestinians strive to stop Gaza shore erosion with concrete and rubble

(This July 27 story corrects paragraph 7 to show a quarter of Gaza population lives in refugee camps)

Reuters

With eyes on the waves, Gaza surfers keep boards handy

Standing at his watchtower, Gaza lifeguard Mohammad Abu Ghanim keeps a keen eye out for signs of rising waves.

Reuters

Israel strikes Gaza Strip after rocket fire: army

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.

AFP

Swimming and surfing, Gazans savour a cleaner sea

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Palestinians in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip are rediscovering the pleasures of the Mediterranean Sea, after authorities declared the end of a long period of hazardous marine pollution.

AFP

Most Gaza children suffer 'distress' after 15 years of blockade: NGO

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Four out of five children in Gaza suffer from emotional distress, Save the Children said Wednesday, 15 years after Israel slapped a strict blockade on the Palestinian territory.

AFP

For the first time in years, Gazans enjoy clean seawater

The water looks crystal blue, with no trace of sewage, the yellow sand is clean and the smell in the air is salty and pleasant, giving beachgoers in Gaza their first experience in years of clean and safe beaches.

Reuters

Gaza war survivor commemorates victims in paintings

A Palestinian woman artist who lost 22 of her extended family in an Israeli air strike in last year's war, has used art to release sorrow and despair at her loss, drawing paintings to commemorate the victims' first anniversary.

Reuters

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Rebuild or resist? Hamas's dilemma year after Gaza war

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A year after its devastating war with Israel, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is faced with a dilemma: to keep up the armed struggle or to lay low and reconstruct the Gaza Strip?

AFP

Three fathers relive nightmare on Gaza's Wehda Street

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - On a fateful night in May 2021, three Palestinian fathers living on Gaza City's Wehda Street shared a common tragedy in an Israeli air strike.

The Guardian - UK

Pet rescue in Gaza: one man’s mission to care for abandoned animals

Horrified by an official campaign to kill strays, Saeed al-Err has made it his life’s work to care for cats and dogs in the city

Edinburgh Live

Mayor of Gaza to address Edinburgh council as part of twin city bid

The petition to twin Edinburgh and Gaza City will be discussed by councillors next week, after being delayed for almost two years as a resulyt of the Covid pandemic.

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Unemployed Palestinians in Gaza Give Up Studies for Israeli Wages

The moment Hussein got permission to work in Israel, the Palestinian resident of Gaza City said he was ready to quit university to seek the attractive wages offered for menial Israeli jobs. "I felt that the doors of heaven were opened for me," said Hussein.

AFP

Palestinians in Gaza give up studies for Israeli wages

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The moment Hussein got permission to work in Israel, the Palestinian resident of Gaza City said he was ready to quit university to seek the attractive wages offered for menial Israeli jobs.

AFP

Hamas faces risk, opportunity from warming Israel-Turkey ties

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A diplomatic thaw between Israel and Turkey has created challenges for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which counts on Ankara's support, but could also offer it a more "trustworthy" middleman to deal with the Jewish state, experts say.

AFP

Mounds of old batteries threaten Gaza health

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - At a landfill in southern Gaza, mounds of discarded batteries pile up, rusting cells that pose a growing health risk to Palestinians in the enclave.

AFP

Gaza construction workers find 31 Roman-era tombs

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Construction workers at a building site in northern Gaza have uncovered 31 Roman-era tombs dating from the first century AD, the Palestinian territory's Islamist rulers Hamas said Monday.

AFP

Gaza bookshop destroyed in Israeli air strike reopens

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A renowned bookshop in Gaza reopened Thursday, nine months after it was flattened in an Israeli air strike during last year's conflict between the Palestinian enclave's rulers Hamas and the Jewish state.

AFP

Pollution clean-up aims to create Gaza's first nature reserve

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The road meandering towards Gaza Valley is notorious for the stench of pollution choking the plant and animal life that once flourished in the Palestinian enclave's biggest wetland.

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