Gaza ceasefire in effect after strikes
SHAKY TRUCE. This picture shows a battery of Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system in the southern city of Ashdod. ...
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Lightning Strike
This photograph taken on March 14, 2023 shows lightning over Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip during heavy rains.
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Gaza’s women and girls see no escape from violence
Seventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her. ...
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Israel closes crossing to Gazans from Strip
JERUSALEM—Israel said it will close its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers on Sunday in response to overnight ...
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Israel further eases Gaza restrictions despite unrest
Israel said Wednesday it would expand Gaza's fishing zone, increase its water supply and allow more Palestinian traders and goods ...
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Ismail Haniyeh reelected leader of Hamas group
Gaza City"•Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected unopposed, officials confirmed Monday, furthering his grip over the Palestinian Islamist group ...
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Ismail Haniyeh re-elected as leader of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected unopposed, officials confirmed Monday, furthering his grip over the Palestinian Islamist group that ...
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Incendiary Gaza balloons cause brush fires in Israel
Incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip on Sunday caused fires in southern Israel, firefighters said, the first such attack ...
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Israel strikes Gaza in response to incendiary balloons
Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after militants in the Palestinian territory sent incendiary balloons ...
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Israel inches closer to government sans longest-serving PM Netanyahu
Jerusalem—Israeli nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett said Sunday he would join a potential coalition government that could end the rule of ...
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