Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 14, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

In Khan Younis, Palestinians struggle to surmount ‘unbearable’ crisis

Conditions in the southern city are worsening as space for Gazans fleeing the north dwindles. But locals are helping however they can.
By Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Palestinians mourn near bodies of those killed in Israeli airstrikes, outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, October 12, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

How do you bury 3,000 martyrs?

Across the Gaza Strip, cemeteries and hospital morgues are full, and families are digging mass graves for their loved ones.
By Ibtisam Mahdi
A large billboard thanking US President Joe Biden for his support for Israel is seen above the Ayalon Highway in Ramat Gan, October 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The world is complicit in a broken Gaza paradigm

The policy of separation and containment has been central to Israeli apartheid. It cannot dictate Palestinians’ reality when the smoke clears.
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
Israel's chief of police Kobi Shabtai is seen flanked by other police officers responding to an alleged terror attack in the Jewish settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, outside of Jerusalem, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘This is political persecution’: Israel cracks down on internal critics of its Gaza war

Palestinians, as well as some left-wing Jews, are being suspended from studies, fired from jobs, or arrested — all because of social media posts.
By Ghousoon Bisharat, Oren Ziv and Baker Zoubi
Families and supporters protest for the release of Israeli civilians abducted to Gaza by Hamas, outside the military headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 14, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Families of Israelis abducted to Gaza decry government ‘abandonment’

A one-man protest outside Tel Aviv’s military HQ quickly swelled into a mass demonstration, with families demanding the immediate return of loved ones.
By Roy Cohen
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Palestinians carrying luggage walk through the massive destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City's Al-Rimal district, Gaza, October 10, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun)
To stay or to leave? Gazans in the north torn over which is safer
While thousands flee — some for the second time this week — ahead of Israel's invasion, others are unwilling or unable to abandon their homes.
By Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha October 15, 2023
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, October 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
I’m still in Gaza City, huddling in the safest room with my family, praying
Because I'm a journalist, my family thinks I'm more immune to the violence and cruelty around us in Gaza. But I'm as terrified as they are.
By Mohammed R. Mhawish October 14, 2023
Palestinians fleeing the northern Gaza Strip after the Israeli army ordered them to evacuate the area within 24 hours, during Israel's assault on the strip, October 13, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun)
Thousands fleeing, a deadly explosion: My drive through Gaza’s escape route
After Israel ordered Gazans to evacuate the north, I rushed through the strip's main road to rescue family members. It was the most difficult day of my life.
By Mohammed Zaanoun October 14, 2023
Israeli soldiers with Jewish settlers at the entrance to the West Bank village of Turmus Aya, June 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Settlers take advantage of Gaza war to launch West Bank pogroms
Israeli settlers and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank this past week, with two villages entirely depopulated after attacks.
By Yuval Abraham October 13, 2023
Rockets are fired from the southern part of the Gaza Strip toward Israel, October 10, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
In this war, Palestinians in Israel are trapped between two painful realities
One moment I’m receiving harrowing news of mass death and expulsion from friends in Gaza. The next I’m sick with worry for my kidnapped Israeli friend.
By Samah Salaime October 13, 2023
Palestinians inspect the rubble of a house bombed by Israeli warplanes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, October 10, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)
Israel is ordering Gazans to flee south. But they’re bombing us here too
Refugees from the north are already arriving in Khan Younis, where the missiles never stop and we’re running out of food, water, and power.
By Ruwaida Kamal Amer October 13, 2023
Israeli troops prepare to take away bodies from Kfar Aza after it was attacked by Hamas militants, October 10, 2023. (Oren Ziv)
‘Bodies scattered everywhere’: Reporting on a massacre in Israel’s south
I’ve covered every war that Israel has waged on the Gaza Strip. But that first morning, it was clear something different was happening this time.
By Oren Ziv October 12, 2023
Wounded Palestinians from an Israeli airstrike arrive at Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, May 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
‘The hospital yard is filled with corpses,’ says Gaza medical director
Israel’s bombardment has pushed Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, beyond its capacity, with electricity and water cuts endangering patients’ lives.
By Ibtisam Mahdi October 12, 2023
Palestinians mourn beside the bodies of people killed in Israeli airstrikes, Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, October 11 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
The Qannans, the Shaheens, the Shaabans: Israel is wiping out entire families in Gaza
Palestinians here in the bombarded strip are facing a crisis on a scale we haven't seen before. We fear it could become a genocide.
By Mahmoud Mushtaha October 12, 2023
Families react to Palestinian family members having been killed in Israeli airstrikes during recent fighting between Israel-Gaza. October 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
Operation ‘A Thousand Eyes for an Eye’ is underway in Gaza
With Israel cutting off food, water, and power supplies, the dehumanization of the strip's population is complete — laying the groundwork for what's to come.
By Amir Rotem October 11, 2023
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