Jabaliya

Jabalia's main street reduced to rubble, October 16, 2025. (Yousef Zaanoun)

PHOTOS: Searching for a ‘trace of home’ in the ruins of northern Gaza

Entire neighborhoods that teemed with life just weeks ago are now rubble and ash. Absent any sense of safety, residents struggle to imagine a future.

By Mohammed Zaanoun and Yousef Zaanoun October 30, 2025

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike outside the European Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2025. (Hussein Abu Khreis/Flash90)

‘Israel burned the ground under our feet’: Hundreds killed in intensified Gaza assault

In a wave of airstrikes from Khan Younis to Jabalia, Israeli forces targeted hospitals and homes, killing over 250 and paralyzing rescue efforts.

By Ibtisam Mahdi May 16, 2025

Palestinians returning to Jabalia amid the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in northern Gaza, January 19, 2025. (Omar El Qataa)

‘My neighborhood was one of the most beautiful in Gaza. All that’s left is rubble’

Rushing north after the ceasefire to see what remains of their former lives, Gazans find flattened homes, bulldozed graves, and missing bodies.

By Ahmed Dremly January 23, 2025

Latest

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Albina Abu Safiya. (Courtesy of the family)

Albina Abu Safiya: ‘The Israeli army deliberately targeted my husband’

Following Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s arrest in northern Gaza, his wife describes her fears over the hospital director's fate and the tragedy of their son's killing.

By Ruwaida Amer January 17, 2025

Palestinians evacuate from northern Gaza amid Israel's siege, December 4, 2024. (Omar El-Qattaa)

Israel storms northern Gaza’s last hospital as remaining residents forced south

The attack on Kamal Adwan marks the culmination of a three-month campaign of ethnic cleansing and destruction in the northern city of Beit Lahiya.

By Ahmed Dremly December 27, 2024

Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahia via Salah al-Din Street to Gaza City, October 22, 2024. (Omar Elqataa)

Inside the siege of northern Gaza, where ‘death waits around every corner’

Limbs scattered on the streets, shelters set ablaze, hundreds trapped inside hospitals: Palestinians detail the apocalyptic scenes of Israel’s latest campaign.

By Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ola Al Asi and Ibrahim Mohammad October 23, 2024

Palestinians fleeing Jabalia camp arrive in Gaza City, October 6, 2024. (Omar El-Qataa)

‘Dead bodies everywhere’ in Jabalia camp as Israel besieges northern Gaza

Gazans in the north are trapped in their homes as Israel launches a new military operation, threatening hospitals and shooting at fleeing residents.

By Ibrahim Mohammad and Mahmoud Mushtaha October 10, 2024

Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, October 9, 2023. (Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages)

‘The smell of death and blood wafts throughout Jabalia camp’

In northern Gaza, Palestinians have to make an impossible choice after an Israeli attack: leave the wounded to die, or risk their lives trying to save them.

By Ibrahim Mohammad May 29, 2024

Palestinians fleeing the war are seen taking refuge at an UNRWA school in the southern Gaza Strip, October 16, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school

Refusing Israel's orders to evacuate northern Gaza, Palestinians are filling every available space amid growing threats of airstrikes and service collapse.

By Ibrahim Mohammad December 11, 2023

Palestinian walk through the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip, October 11, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Gaza’s largest refugee camp has been turned into a ghost town

Israel’s incessant airstrikes and cutting of basic supplies have forced out most of Jabalia camp's residents. Those who remain feel lucky to still be alive.

By Ibrahim Mohammad October 26, 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

Palestinian refugees 'making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948' (Fred Csasznik, copyright expired)

Addressing the root of the Palestinian refugee problem

Cash shortages at UNRWA distract from the wider issue: it is the lack of a diplomatic solution, not funding, that leaves Palestinian refugees vulnerable. In the end, it was the catastrophe that wasn’t. For a nervy few weeks it seemed a severe funding shortage would delay the school year for half a million children reliant on the…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth September 24, 2015

Shrouq Aila, 20, Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip. (Shrouq Aila)

Voices without borders: Four young writers from Gaza tell their story

Young Gazans are finally getting an opportunity to present themselves to the world in their own words. +972 speaks to some of the participants in the 'We Are Not Numbers' writing project about hope, love, war and, of course, writing.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth August 25, 2015