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Dialysis patient Basel Al-Dahdouh in his family's tent on Al-Shuhada Street in central Gaza City, August 13, 2026. (Hussain Al-Jerjawi)

Gaza’s sick wait for treatment that may never come

As medicine runs out under Israel's blockade and care is routinely disrupted, dialysis and cancer patients in the enclave are left to die slowly.

By Ahmed Dremly August 14, 2026

Palestinian girls box outside the makeshift training gym in the Al-Rimal displacement camp, in Gaza City, June 1, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun)

‘This sport has taught us not to lower our eyes in fear’

In a displacement camp in Gaza City, boxing has become a lifeline for dozens of girls — who dream of one day representing Palestine on the international stage.

By Mohammed Zaanoun June 22, 2026

Palestinian child suffering from skin infections and severe malnutrition receives treatment at Al-Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2026. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Rats, raw sewage, skin diseases: Israel’s siege is ravaging Gaza’s displaced

As Israel continues to restrict aid, Gaza’s shattered health system is struggling to treat and contain illnesses spreading through overcrowded tent camps.

By Ahmed Dremly and Ibtisam Mahdi May 29, 2026

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Palestinians inspect the damage to their homes following an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 26, 2026. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

After living through Gaza’s carnage, now it consumes me from outside

Moments after speaking to a friend, I received news of Israeli airstrikes in his location. From my newfound safety in Europe, all I could offer were prayers.

By Ahmed Dremly May 28, 2026

Palestinians walk among the ruins of their homes in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza, October 17, 2025. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

What’s behind Israel’s new plan to divide Gaza in two

While Trump hails "peace," Israel is entrenching a new regime of fortified borders, proxy rule, and engineered despair — with expulsion still the end goal.

By Muhammad Shehada October 31, 2025

Palestinians rush to the site where parachuted aid packages land, in the Nuseirat area of the central Gaza Strip, August 8, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

With chaotic airdrops, Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza enters new phase

Israel has only allowed a trickle of aid to enter the enclave, as Gazans describe risking their lives for a sack of flour or moldy bread.

By Ibtisam Mahdi and Ahmed Dremly August 15, 2025

The uncle of three-month-old Fadi Al-Najjar holds his body after he died of malnutrition, at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza

The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone.

By Ahmed Dremly July 25, 2025

Twelve-year-old Rahaf Ayad holds a phone showing a picture of herself before the war, in her family's home in Gaza City, May 2, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege

With over 70,000 children hospitalized for malnutrition, Israel's blockade on the Strip has left parents to watch helplessly as their children waste away.

By Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Dremly May 8, 2025

Wounded Palestinians crowd the floors of Nasser Hospital after the bombing of a residential area near a school sheltering a large number of displaced people, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 3, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

In Gaza’s devastated hospitals, treatable patients face ‘slow, quiet death’

Bleeding out from moderate shrapnel wounds. Dying from illnesses doctors don’t have time to treat. Going blind waiting for medical evacuation abroad. These are the manifold victims of Israel's war on Gaza's health system.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha April 3, 2025

Gazans light fireworks over the ruins of Khan Younis to celebrate Ramadan, with Israel’s blockade causing an ongoing electricity blackout, March 12, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Fasting while starving, Gazans struggle to mark Ramadan

As Israel continues to prevent the entry of food into the Strip, Palestinians are gathering with surviving family members to observe the holiday in the rubble.

By Ruwaida Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi March 17, 2025

A fisherman checks the fish he managed to catch, on the beach of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, December 7, 2024. (Ruwaida Amer)

‘Anyone who goes near the water risks his life. But if we leave the sea, we die’

Little remains of Gaza’s fishing industry, devastated by the war and years of Israeli restrictions. Yet fishermen are still clinging on to their livelihood.

By Ruwaida Amer March 11, 2025

Palestinian workers wear face masks for fear of the coronavirus at a shop in Gaza City, March 9, 2020. (Ali Ahmed/Flash90)

Palestinians worry for livelihoods as COVID-19 cripples blockaded Gaza

The coronavirus crisis has deteriorated the already-low quality of life for Palestinians in Gaza. Without a recovery plan free from siege, it will get worse.

By Fidaa Shurrab May 28, 2020

Omar Odeh helped establish a follow up committee dealing with the affairs of Palestinian refugees from Syria who fled to Gaza. (Mohammed Al-Hajjar)

Displaced again: Palestinian refugees from Syria struggle to survive in Gaza

With surging unemployment rates and high rents, Palestinian refugees who fled the Syrian war for Gaza are struggling to climb out of poverty. Like many Gazans, they hope to leave the strip in search of a better life. By Amjad Yaghi In mid-2012, Egyptian police arrested Omar Odeh for violating the conditions of his residence permit and overstaying his…

By +972 Magazine August 21, 2019