Israeli strike kills children near Gaza clinic
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During a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Israel's prime minister called for the «voluntary migration» of Palestinians from Gaza. His defense minister has offered a radical plan for a closed «humanitarian city.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Shifa Hospital was once the cornerstone of the health system in the Gaza Strip. Now, after 21 months of war and two major Israeli raids, it barely functions.
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The Nation on MSNThe Impossible Geography of Survival in GazaIsrael has created “green zones” and “red zones” to distinguish between safe and dangerous areas. There’s little difference.
A senior Israeli official predicts Israel and Hamas will come to a ceasefire in the "next week or two," a longer timeframe than previously expected. Until a ceasefire can be reached, fighting goes on and Israel continues its airstrikes.
One by one, displaced Gazans would pass through security checkpoints where they would be searched for weapons or signs of links to Hamas before being allowed into a new “humanitarian city” built on ruins.
Cash is the lifeblood of the Gaza Strip's shattered economy, and like all other necessities in this war-torn territory — food, fuel, medicine — it is in extremely short supply.
At Gaza's largest hospital, doctors say crippling fuel shortages have led them to put several premature babies in a single incubator as they struggle to keep the newborns alive while Israel presses on with its military campaign.