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Palestinians in Gaza City are scrambling to escape Israeli bombardment, as the Israeli army works to annihilate what remains of northern Gaza’s last bastion from the air and the ground. For Ahmed Ahmed, who has defied Israeli orders and remained in Gaza City for the past two years, the intensity of the assault made death feel like an inevitability, and left him no choice but to leave.

Meanwhile, Baker Zoabi detailed how the army’s systematic erasure of Gaza City is wiping out thousands of years of Palestinian and Arab heritage — centuries-old mosques, churches, and ancient artifacts — representing a crime against history itself (originally published on Local Call).

And Meron Rapoport argued that U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza, despite plenty of confusing and contradictory elements, appears to spell the end of the Israeli government’s expulsion fantasies (originally published on Local Call).

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