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Feb 10, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Julia Jacobo |Sami Zayara |Zoe Magee
(WASHINGTON) -- Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic drop in populations wintering in Mexico, researchers told ABC News. The annual census of the number of monarchs that winter in Central Mexico showed that the population decreased "precipitously," the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which conducts the research alongside the World Wildlife Fund-Mexico, announced on Wednesday.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Sami Zayara |Zoe Magee
"I wish we could go back to our homes, go back to our studies and our old days."BySami Zayara and Zoe MageeFebruary 9, 2024, 4:12 PMRAFAH AND LONDON -- In the sand dunes above Rafah in southern Gaza, a ricochet of children's laughter rings out, mixing with the unrelenting sound of Israeli reconnaissance drones. This odd combination can be heard most days as children from the tent city populated by the displaced gather to fly their kites, finding some joy amidst the horrors of war.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Zoe Magee |Sami Zayara
ALSO SEE: 'Different Rules': Special Policies Keep US Supplying Weapons to Israel Despite Alleged Abuses As the Israel-Hamas war passed the 100-day mark this week, the Gaza Strip continues to be devastated amid the conflict, with women and children said to be the majority of casualties -- and those still in Gaza desperate for aid.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Zoe Magee |Sami Zayara
A pregnant mom of four told ABC News she walks miles for a bottle of water. ByZoe Magee and Sami ZayaraJanuary 18, 2024, 5:49 PMLONDON and RAFAH -- As the Israel-Hamas war passed the 100-day mark this week, the Gaza Strip continues to be devastated amid the conflict, with women and children said to be the majority of casualties -- and those still in Gaza desperate for aid.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Somayeh Malekian |Sami Zayara
Hamas' terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7 killed 1,200 Israelis. BySomayeh Malekian and Sami ZayaraJanuary 10, 2024, 5:50 PMLondon - Rafah -- The death toll in Gaza has reached a grim milestone, with one of every 100 Palestinians there killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which started following Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
abcnews.go.com | Sami Zayara |Meredith Deliso
"We play to forget the pain we experienced," one girl said. BySami Zayara and Meredith DelisoDecember 28, 2023, 6:14 AMRawan, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, said she is fearful living in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. But she can find moments to be a kid again and cheer on others at her shelter school.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
willmarradio.com | Sami Zayara |Meredith Deliso
(NEW YORK) -- Rawan, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, said she is fearful living in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. But she can find moments to be a kid again and cheer on others at her shelter school. "We play to forget the pain we experienced," Rawan, who lost a cousin in the war, told ABC News on Wednesday during a visit to a shelter school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
abcnews.go.com | Sami Zayara |Emily Shapiro
Dounia said she wanted to be a doctor when she grew up. BySami Zayara and Emily ShapiroDecember 18, 2023, 5:52 PMA 12-year-old girl has died in an apparent strike at a Gaza hospital weeks after she said in an interview that she only wanted "the war to end."A tank shell struck a children's ward at the Nasser Hospital Complex in Khan Younis on Sunday night, killing Dounia, a 12-year-old who had lost her leg in an airstrike that killed her mother, father, brother and sister.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Sami Zayara |Emily Shapiro
12-year-old girl killed at Gaza hospital weeks after she said, 'I only want ... the war to end'A 12-year-old girl has died in an apparent strike at a Gaza hospital weeks after she said in an interview that she only wanted "the war to end."A tank shell struck a children's ward at the Nasser Hospital Complex in Khan Younis on Sunday night, killing Dounia, a 12-year-old who had lost her leg in an airstrike that killed her mother, father, brother and sister.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Zoe Magee |Ruwaida Amer |Sami Zayara
For the people of Gaza, there's a common exhaustion that many express -- exhausted by the war, of living in such dire conditions, by the death that surrounds them. "We are tired of this living," Muhammad Jawad Ibrahim Al-Barbari, a 46-year-old employee at Gaza International Airport, told ABC News in an interview last Friday, the day the week-long temporary cease-fire ended between Israel and Hamas.
