Topic - Gaza

; also referred to as Gaza City) is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 410,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories. - Source: Wikipedia

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Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, at the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Airstrike kills 27 in central Gaza and fighting rages as Israel’s leaders are increasingly divided

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators after defying orders to leave at an encampment on the UCLA campus, in Los Angeles, May 2, 2024. Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment. But protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza in its hunt for Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre has tested that ideal around the world. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

By Laurie Kellman and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

People hold Palestinian flags while attending a pro-Palestinian rally, Saturday, May 18, 2024, on the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rally in the rain in D.C.

By Ashraf Khalil - Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Army shows trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before arriving on the beach on the Gaza Strip Friday, May 17, 2024. Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/U.S. Army via AP)

Member of Israel’s War Cabinet says he’ll quit the government June 8 unless there’s a new war plan

By Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Demonstrators rally during the March on Washington for Gaza at Freedom Plaza in Washington, Jan. 13, 2024. Thousands of protestors are expected to rally in the nation's capital Saturday, May 18, in support of Palestinian rights and demanding an immediate end to the punishing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. The annual event commemorates the 76th anniversary of what is known in Arabic as The Nakba (The Catastrophe), the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Rally on National Mall expected to draw thousands in support of Palestinian rights

By Ashraf Khalil - Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Army shows trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before arriving on the beach on the Gaza Strip Friday, May 17, 2024. Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/U.S. Army via AP)

Aid from new pier off Gaza should be distributed this weekend, pressure grows on Netanyahu

By Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Children attend an activity at a makeshift class in Deir al Balah, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Since the war erupted Oct 7, all schools in Gaza have closed, and nearly 90% of school buildings are damaged or destroyed, according to aid groups. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareen Hana)

For the children of Gaza, war means no school — and no indication when formal learning might return

By Wafaa Shurafa and Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Ricarda Louk sits in front of a placard of her missing daughter Shani Louk Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in Tel Aviv. The Israeli military said Friday, May 17, 2024, it found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including Louk. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival

Associated Press

The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. The temporary pier is part of the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore capability. The U.S. military finished installing the floating pier on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

U.S. military: First aid shipment has been driven across a newly built American pier into Gaza Strip

By Lolita C. Baldor and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and sailors attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza on April 26, 2024. The U.S. expects to have on-the-ground arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering aid this month via a new U.S.-backed sea route for Gaza aid. An official with the U.S. Agency for International Development tells the AP that humanitarian groups expect to have their part of preparations complete by early to mid-month. (U.S. Army via AP)

U.S. military: Gaza Strip pier project completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah, Gaza, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

U.N.’s top court opens hearings on the Israeli military’s incursion into Rafah

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Dawud Assad, 92, stands in front of Palestinian decor in his home in Monroe Township, N.J., on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Noreen Nasir)

Palestinians recount painful history with war in Gaza as a reminder

By Noreen Nasir - Associated Press

Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It’s an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

European Union says Israel’s actions in Rafah threaten future relations with them

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party leader John Steenhuisen waves to supporters in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 17, 2024, at the party's manifesto launch ahead of the 2024 general elections. Steenhuisen has promised to "rescue" South Africa from what it says is the corruption and mismanagement of the governing Africa National Congress but has never come close to winning a national election. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) **FILE**

Mandela’s party stumbles as election approaches in South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Palestinian Fayrouz Safi cries while she takes the last look at the body of her son Aysar Safi, 20, at the family house during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun, north of Ramallah Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Safi was killed during clashes with Israeli forces at the northern entrance of al-Bireh city, Palestinian ministry of health said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza

By Tia Goldenberg, Wafaa Shurafa and Abby Sewell - Associated Press