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Gaza City
Oct 31, 2026
Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders
RASHA ABOU JALAL, DROP SITE NEWS, MAY 15, 2025
Israeli Airstrikes Decimate the Last Restaurant in Gaza City in Nightmarish Bloodbath
RASHA ABOU JALAL, DROP SITE NEWS, MAY 07, 2025
Israel Faces World Court Hearings Over Gaza Aid
Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, April 28, 2025
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New Israeli buffer zone and military corridor in Gaza
David Gritten and Yolande Knell, BBC, Apr 1, 2025
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Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire as more than 400 Palestinians killed in IDF strikes
Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam, Kate Lamb and Helen Livingstone, The Guardian, 18 Mar 2025
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US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians from Gaza
JOSEF FEDERMAN, MATTHEW LEE AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 14, 2025
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U.N. Commission and U.S. Surgeons Accuse Israel of Genocide and Torture
Democracy Now!, March 13, 2025
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Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza
MELANIE LIDMAN AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 9, 2025
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Israel to cut off electricity in Gaza to force hand of Hamas
Jason Burke, The Guardian, 9 Mar 2025
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Israel cuts off Gaza aid to pressure Hamas for new ceasefire proposal
TIA GOLDENBERG AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 2, 2025
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A Letter to Donald Trump From Gaza
ABUBAKER ABED, ZETEO, FEB 23, 2025
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Living in the Open
Hossam Shabat and Rasha Abou Jalal, الصحفي حسام شبات, Drop Site News, Feb 20, 2025
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MECA Feb 14, 2025 Update: Clean Water for Rafah
Israel destroyed all but one of the Maia water filter units in Rafah
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Israel’s secret plan to transfer Palestinians more than 50 years ago
Amer Sultan, Middle East Monitor, February 2, 2025
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Jabaliya Is Now a City of Rubble
ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, FEB 05, 2025
Deaths from Israel’s attacks on Gaza rise to 62,000
Al Jazeera, 3 Feb 2025
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Latest Gaza Update from MECA
Jan 30, 2025
‘$50m condoms for Gaza’: the US promotes deranged lie
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, JAN 29, 2025
MECA Statement on the Gaza Ceasefire
Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, Executive Director, Jan 22, 2025
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