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2 weeks ago | 
csmonitor.com | Ghada Abdulfattah |Taylor Luck
Efforts to feed desperately hungry Palestinians in Gaza are facing setbacks, peril, and pandemonium. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed venture with alleged links to the Israeli military, says it is making progress in providing meals in the blockaded Gaza Strip since taking over food distribution from the United Nations in late May. But Gaza residents, who are struggling to find food, describe the distribution process as chaotic.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Ghada Abdulfattah |Taylor Luck
Even amid Israel’s intensified military operations in Gaza, and the ever-evolving displacement of the enclave’s Palestinian residents, another Israel-Hamas war flash point has come to the fore this week: the entry and distribution of lifesaving aid. On Tuesday, Israel began distributing food through a controversial U.S.-backed mechanism it is implementing unilaterally in southern Gaza, cutting out international aid organizations that have been working on the ground in the strip for years.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Ghada Abdulfattah
After more than two months of an Israeli blockade, the Gaza Strip is running out of food, and few are more vulnerable than its children.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 14, 2025 | 
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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Mar 4, 2025 | 
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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Feb 6, 2025 | 
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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Feb 3, 2025 | 
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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Jan 28, 2025 | 
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.
