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2 weeks ago | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Doaa Shaheen |Ramzy Baroud |Rashid I. Khalidi
Abu Shabab in Gaza · 12.06.2025 An armed group is making headlines in Gaza. Led by Abu Shabab, the militia stands accused of looting aid and attacking starving civilians, while enjoying quiet backing from Israel as a means to undermine Hamas. https://qantara.de/en/node/44409 Print Aid organisations have accused the group of looting aid supplies in Gaza. Palestinian eyewitnesses say its members have fired at starving civilians.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
qantara.de | Doaa Shaheen |Hanno Hauenstein |John Duerden
Volleyball in Gaza · 18.02.2025 An amateur women's volleyball team in Gaza is offering displaced people a sense of peace amid the destruction. The women on the team dream of a lasting end to Israel's war on the enclave. https://qantara.de/en/node/44286 Print Laughter and the sharp smack of volleyballs against palms echo through Ghusn Al Zaytoon Camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
qantara.de | Inge Günther |Hanno Hauenstein |Hugh Lovatt |Doaa Shaheen
Palestinian political scientist Khalil Shikaki · 03.02.2025 Khalil Shikaki has been conducting polls in Palestine since 1993. He argues that Palestinians need a unified interim leadership to pave the way for elections, and warns against Trump's destabilising plans for the region.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Doaa Shaheen |Hanno Hauenstein |Andrea Backhaus
Families in Gaza · 04.10.2024 One year on from the Hamas attack and the subsequent war, nine out of ten people in Gaza are internally displaced. Many couples and entire families have been torn apart by the Israeli offensive. Doaa Shaheen reports from the scene. https://qantara.de/en/node/44178 Print On the morning of 7 October, 45-year-old Iman Abu Hasira was making breakfast for her daughters. As always, they spent the morning together as a family.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Doaa Shaheen
Under a scorching sun last Saturday, 14-year-old Tala Mahmoud was waiting in a food distribution line to secure a dish of lentils for her family in the displaced persons’ camp in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. Then, chaos. In minutes, Israeli war planes dropped a reported five 2,000 pound bombs on the area – an area the Israeli military had designated a “safe zone,” and which was filled with people who had been forcibly displaced from elsewhere in Gaza.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
defenddemocracy.press | Doaa Shaheen
By Samer Walid was eating a meal given to his family in food aid when the sounds of gunfire started coming from all directions. A moment later, he heard shelling and a series of missiles being dropped on particular locations. Fire belts – as they are known in Gaza. As he tried to calm down his children, Samer asked Rehab, his wife, to grab some essentials so that they could flee their home in Nuseirat refugee camp. They did not have time to do so. Suddenly, Israeli soldiers attacked his house.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Doaa Shaheen
Samer Walid was eating a meal given to his family in food aid when the sounds of gunfire started coming from all directions. A moment later, he heard shelling and a series of missiles being dropped on particular locations. Fire belts – as they are known in Gaza. As he tried to calm down his children, Samer asked Rehab, his wife, to grab some essentials so that they could flee their home in Nuseirat refugee camp. They did not have time to do so. Suddenly, Israeli soldiers attacked his house.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Doaa Shaheen
Inside the infant nursery of the Emirati Maternity hospital in Rafah, 5-month-old Yahya cried as a nurse tried to soothe him. Some 40 kilometers away in the Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza, his mother, Sondos Hamouda, also cried — for the baby she is unable to see because of the presence of the Israeli military. Yahya was born on 27 November, two months premature. The sounds of bombings and explosions and the roar of war planes overhead in Gaza made his mother’s already difficult delivery harder.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Doaa Shaheen
Salem Baraka has seen the kind of horror no parent should ever have to endure: The Israeli military killed his son Karim right in front of him. Like so many others, Salem and Karim fled from their home in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza, during the current genocidal war. They took shelter at al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. They were inside the hospital when it was stormed by Israeli forces on 18 March.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
raseef22.net | Doaa Shaheen
Life took an unexpected turn for 33-year-old Doha Ahmed, after the Israeli war on Gaza uprooted her from her once-secure life, home, and family. She now lives as a displaced person in one of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) schools at the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza. Doha struggles with the lack of basic necessities, and faces numerous challenges, particularly those related to her needs as a woman.
