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Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, file)

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As Israel's fight with Hezbollah heats up, people of Gaza fear being forgotten
By JULIA FRANKEL AND WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press
Mon,09/23/24-11:10PM , 48 Reads
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — As the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah grabs global attention, Palestinians in Gaza wonder: What will become of
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Displaced Palestinians gather for food distribution in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking 'humanitarian zone' where food is scarce
By JULIA FRANKEL AND WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press
Sat,08/24/24-1:07AM , 153 Reads
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Young girls screamed and elbowed each other in a crush of bodies in southern Gaza, trying desperately to reach the front of the food line. Men doled out rice and chicken as fast as they could, platefuls of the nourishment falling to the ground in the tumult.
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Palestinian mourners carry their loved one for burial at the cemetery in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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As Gaza death toll passes 40,000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered graves
By JULIA FRANKEL AND WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press
Thu,08/15/24-5:43AM , 76 Reads
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa’di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead.

“Sometimes we make graves on top of graves,” he said.
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CORRECTS LOCATION - Rola Saqer feeds her baby Masa Mohammad Zaqout at her parents' home in the neighborhood of Zawaida, central Gaza, Thursday, April 4, 2024. Zaqout was born Oct. 7, the day the Israel- Hamas war erupted. Mothers who gave birth that day fret that their 6-month-old babies have known nothing but brutal war, characterized by a lack of baby food, unsanitary shelter conditions and the crashing of airstrikes. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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These Palestinian mothers in Gaza gave birth Oct. 7. Their babies have known only war
By JULIA FRANKEL AND WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press
Sat,04/06/24-11:08PM , 96 Reads
NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rockets streaked through the morning sky in Gaza on Oct. 7 as Amal Al-Taweel hurried to the hospital in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp, already in labor. After a difficult birth, she and her husband, Mustafa, finally got to hold Ali, the child they spent three years trying to have.
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