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5 days ago | 
theafricanmirror.africa | Rosa Rahimi |Ghada Abdulfattah
This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. By Rosa Rahimi and Ghada Abdulfattah For over a year, the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s military campaign and siege of the Gaza Strip has been compounded by the extreme difficulty of accessing cash in the enclave, intertwining the struggle for survival with the challenge of obtaining the physical bills required to pay for essential goods.
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1 week ago | 
thenewhumanitarian.org | Rosa Rahimi |Ghada Abdulfattah
Republish this article For over a year, the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s military campaign and siege of the Gaza Strip has been compounded by the extreme difficulty of accessing cash in the enclave, intertwining the struggle for survival with the challenge of obtaining the physical bills required to pay for essential goods. The Israeli shekel is the currency in Gaza, and Israel has not allowed any new cash to enter the territory since before the war. Amid widespread destruction and...
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Taylor Luck |Ghada Abdulfattah
An alternative to U.S. President Donald Trump’s regionally reviled plan for Gaza’s reconstruction is gaining widespread buy-in across the region, and among Palestinians and Europeans. The Arab world’s own plan, dubbed “Gaza 2030,” entails a $53 billion reconstruction program and a new governing entity for the enclave. The three rather sizable challenges? Getting the United States on board, getting Israel on board, and tackling the thorny outstanding issue of Hamas’ arms.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Ghada Abdulfattah |Taylor Luck
With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire hanging by a thread, Palestinians in Gaza are scrambling for certainty and survival. Even as residents returning to bombed-out communities struggled to clear space for their tents amid the rubble, a war of words between Hamas and Israel continued Tuesday over the second phase of a ceasefire that had been due to begin Sunday.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Taylor Luck |Ghada Abdulfattah
U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate its Palestinian inhabitants has made the forced transfer of populations – a war crime – a policy discussion, galvanizing Arab states. While President Trump’s proposal, floated Tuesday in a joint press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left Palestinians scrambling, an Arab firewall quickly emerged to reject any attempt to expel Palestinians from their land.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Taylor Luck |Ghada Abdulfattah
The waiting crowd cheered the bus’s arrival, buzzing like fans seeking a glimpse of a rock star. Israel’s release of Palestinian prisoners into the West Bank and Gaza Saturday – part of the ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas – provided a day of good news for a people worn down by war. For a moment in the West Bank, a region hounded by settler attacks and choked by Israeli military checkpoints, there was a rare sense of joy.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Taylor Luck |Ghada Abdulfattah
In the Gaza Strip, Hamas is back. Less than two weeks into its ceasefire deal with Israel, the militant Islamist group is emerging from its tunnels to stage military rallies and ceremonial parades by gun-toting, balaclava-clad fighters. It is deploying uniformed police to patrol Gaza’s ruined streets. And it has resumed some of the government services that it used to provide before the war. Why We Wrote ThisA key aim of Israel's war against Hamas was to eliminate the militant group.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Taylor Luck |Ghada Abdulfattah
With a ceasefire and hostage release deal due to begin Sunday, an outpouring of happiness, sorrow, and delayed grief is coming to the fore across Israel and the Gaza Strip. All is overshadowed by uncertainty. For war-weary Israelis, there is cautious hope for a return to normal life, as families of the hostages watch and wait to see who returns alive. Why We Wrote ThisA story focused onOver more than 15 months of war and loss, Israeli and Palestinian emotions have been rubbed raw, or suppressed.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Taylor Luck |Dina Kraft |Ghada Abdulfattah
After 15 months of war and suffering, Israelis and Palestinians holding out for a ceasefire and hostage deal appear to be getting a pause, but not yet peace. A fragile, phased deal that is due to begin Sunday provides for a six-week ceasefire and the release of some Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for scores of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Ghada Abdulfattah
December ended in tragedy for the Batran family, living in a flimsy tent on the coast of Deir al-Balah after escaping Israeli shelling in northern Gaza. One newborn son died of hypothermia. His twin is fighting for his life. “I saw them dying. ... I felt helpless and hopeless,” says Nora al-Batran, while waiting for her baby to recover at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
