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6 days ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mohammed al-Hajjar |Ahmed Aziz
Israeli forces have committed a new massacre targeting Palestinian aid seekers in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores more, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday. According to eyewitnesses and local officials, Israeli troops opened fire directly on civilians gathered at two US-Israeli food distribution points in Rafah and central Gaza. At least 31 people were killed in Rafah and one in central Gaza, while over 200 were wounded, many of them critically.
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1 week ago | 
rebelion.org | Maha Hussaini |Mohammed al-Hajjar
Fuentes: Voces del Mundo [Foto: Lugar de distribución de ayuda fijado por la Fundación Humanitaria de Gaza (GHF)]
Al menos tres personas murieron y decenas resultaron heridas el martes cuando miles de palestinos hambrientos intentaron conseguir comida en un controvertido centro de distribución de ayuda estadounidense-israelí en la Gaza devastada por la guerra.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mohammed al-Hajjar
Palestinians clamoured for aid and gunfire rang out in chaotic scenes, as a controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme turned to shambles. Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Chris Doyle
A young girl with a short ponytail steps over shattered rubble, flames around her, trying to escape. The five-year-old child in the viral footage, which showed the aftermath of an Israeli strikes on a Gaza City school sheltering displaced Palestinians, was Ward Jalal al-Sheikh Khalil. Ward, who has spent nearly half her life surviving Israel’s war on Gaza, was fleeing the bombed classroom at the Fahmi al-Jerjawi school after witnessing her mother and four siblings burn to death.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mera Aladam |Ahmed Abu Artema
It was midnight when Israeli warplanes bombed the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City, setting it ablaze. Families who had sought refuge in the school after being displaced were instead engulfed by fire in the early hours of Monday, desperately trying to reach loved ones trapped in the flames. "The aftermath of the Israeli strike revealed the charred remains of more than 30 Palestinians, 18 of them children and six women.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
A Palestinian paediatrician received the charred bodies of nine of her children while on duty at the hospital after an Israeli strike hit her home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
A Palestinian paediatrician received the charred bodies of seven of her children while on duty after an Israeli strike hit her home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
Lana al-Sharif was just eight years old when Israel’s war on Gaza began. Nineteen months later, the Palestinian girl is now known in her displacement camp as the “elderly child”. With grey hair and white patches across her skin, Lana was diagnosed with vitiligo after suffering a severe panic attack triggered by an Israeli air strike on her neighbourhood in January 2024. Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment or colour. “She was terrified and trembling.
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3 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini
As ‘man-made’ famine deepens under Israeli siege, Palestinian families feed their children makeshift versions of traditional dishes amid extreme hunger One-year-old Kareem eats bread soaked in tea amid an Israeli ban on entry of goods to the Gaza Strip (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar) 15 May 2025 09:58 BST ago Beside a makeshift firewood stove, in a classroom that has served as their home for the past year, Um Kamal Ubeid gently feeds her one-year-old grandson, Kareem.
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4 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Maha Hussaini
May 10, 2025 Under a tightening Israeli siege, Palestinian girl Rahaf Ayyad struggles with physical and emotional changes, as her mother fights for answers. Once proud of her long, silky brown hair, Rahaf Ayyad now dreads combing it. “Each time I use the comb, more of my hair falls out,” the Palestinian girl says.
