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3 weeks 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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4 weeks 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 month 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 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Mohammed al-Hajjar |David Hearst
Israel launched a new ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday under the cover of heavy bombardment, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians. According to the director of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, at least 100 people were killed and many more wounded, including women and children, during a “bloody night” of relentless attacks. Aerial and artillery bombardment, along with naval shelling, targeted various areas in the northwest of the Gaza Strip.
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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.
