Rawan Ahmad

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes |Saher Alghorra

HAIFA, Israel — Airstrikes pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, health officials said, as Israel reaffirmed its plans to capture more land in the enclave and force all 2 million Gaza Strip residents to live in the south. The single deadliest bombing hit near a popular cafe in Gaza City where young people gathered to use the internet, killing 33, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes

A body is moved in the aftermath of an Israeli drone strike at a restaurant in Gaza City on Wednesday. Nearly two months have passed since Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza in March and resumed its military campaign after talks broke down.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Erika Solomon |Rawan Ahmad |Saher Alghorra

The effect of Israel's total siege has become "catastrophic," doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. Trying to get food in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, in April. Many Gazans turn to charity kitchens for what food is still available. The effect of Israel's total siege has become "catastrophic," doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Adam Rasgon |Rawan Ahmad

The holiday is usually a celebration of the liberation of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. But for many Israelis, the suffering of the captives still in Gaza is tempering the joy. When Yona Schnitzer, a marketing writer from Tel Aviv, attended the traditional Passover Seder meal last year, he said a special prayer for the return of all of the hostages still being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza. He had thought their freedom would be secured by Passover 2025, but that did not happen.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes

HAIFA, Israel -- Bilal Mohammad Ramadan AbuKresh has lost his home, his job, his wife and seven other relatives during the war in the Gaza Strip. Now, as the United Nations closes 25 bakeries across the territory, he is also losing his only reliable source of food. Before Wednesday, AbuKresh, 40, said he would leave his tent in a camp for displaced people in northern Gaza at dawn and stand in line for hours at one of the bakeries, waiting for bread for his four children.