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Jan 15, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Ahmed Aziz |Mohammed al-Hajjar |Nader Durgham
As the long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza was announced on Wednesday, displaced Palestinians celebrated and expressed both relief and fear while hoping that the agreement would hold. Shourouk Shahine, a Palestinian journalist in Deir al-Balah, told Middle East Eye that she feels “a very conflicted feeling, very mixed emotions, we are holding our breath”.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mohammed al-Hajjar
A dewdrop fell from the roof of a tent on to Yahya Muhammed al-Batran’s nose, waking him to the news that his newborn son, one half of a pair of twin brothers, had frozen to death overnight on Sunday. Originally from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Batran’s wife had given birth a month earlier. The children’s first home was a makeshift tent for the displaced, patched over with blankets, in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Joseph A. Massad |Mohammad N. Saleh |Mohammed al-Hajjar
Eyewitnesses describe the aftermath of the attack on Deir al-Balah school sheltering over 1,000 displaced people Displaced Palestinians sheltering at a school in Deir al-Balah react after an Israeli air strike on 10 October 2024 (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar) 10 October 2024 16:49 BST ago An Israeli strike on a school in central Gaza left “heads blown up” and “innocent children scattered across the floor”, eyewitnesses have told Middle East Eye.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Joseph A. Massad |Ahmed Dremly |Katherine Hearst |Mohammed al-Hajjar
For six days, residents of the Jabalia refugee camp have been trapped in their homes in northern Gaza, while the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes in recent days litter the streets. As the Israeli military tightens its siege of the camp, which started on 6 October, people have been afraid to venture out. Internet blackouts have meanwhile left many in the dark and forced to rely on neighbours for information.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Mohammed al-Hajjar
In a flash, everything changed for the Abd al-Aati family. In early November, as Palestinians fled the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City following relentless Israeli bombardment, matriarch Hala grabbed her grandson Taim, who was holding a white flag, a universal symbol of surrender, and they tried to make their way south. As they passed through an evacuation route that had been declared safe, the unthinkable happened.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
defenddemocracy.press | Mohammed al-Hajjar
‘Unspeakable horrors’: Palestine diplomat draws parallels between Hiroshima bombing, onslaught in GazaAmbassador at the Permanent General Mission of Palestine in Japan, Waleed Siam, highlighted of the ‘unspeakable horrors’ of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing and the onslaught in the Gaza Strip during an Alternative Peace Ceremony in Japan yesterday. Palestinians and Hibakusha – survivors of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb – both face efforts to erase them, he said.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mohammed al-Hajjar |Nader Durgham
Editor's note: This article contains distressing detailsBlindfolded, arms behind his head and standing by the barbed wire fence of the Israeli Sde Teiman detention camp. It was one of the first photos leaked from the notorious army base, where thousands of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge and routinely tortured. The man in the picture, Ibrahim Salem, was released last week after nearly eight months of detention.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Abubaker Abed |Mohammed al-Hajjar
Israeli air strikes on a girls' school in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least 30 people and wounded over 100 others on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said. Khadija Girls' School was sheltering over 4,000 displaced Palestinians, according to civil defence officials in the enclave. A field hospital was also operating inside the school complex.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mohammed al-Hajjar
Haydar al-Msaddar is the 163rd Palestinian journalist killed in this war, according to local authorities The journalists's tent in al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza following an Israeli strike (Mohammed al-Hajjar, MEE) 22 July 2024 13:12 BST ago The Israeli army struck a tent sheltering journalists in Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, central Gaza on Monday.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
ozarab.media | Mohammed al-Hajjar
‘Catastrophic’ Israeli strikes in central Gaza leave 210 dead Hospital reportedly faces bombing threat amid strikes on Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat as Israel announces rescue of four captives Mohammed al-Hajjar Sat, 06/08/2024 – 11:08 Mourners pray over victims of Israeli bombing in Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar) More than 210 people have been left dead and dozens more wounded in Israeli air strikes in central Gaza on Saturday, as Israel announced the rescue of four captives...
