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Palestinians carry the body of Mohammed Al-Sukni, who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks, as his mother sits at the front of the vehicle before his funeral in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel’s Netanyahu set to give final approval for Gaza City takeover despite protests

By Wafaa Shurafa, Sally Abou AlJoud and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

In a sign of growing desperation, Islam Abu Taeima, a 40-year-old mother of five, grabs a piece of bread from a pile of garbage in Gaza City, Sunday, May 25, 2025.(AP Photo/(AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza’s growing desperation

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians carry the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli army airstrike, during their funeral in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel says it has begun ‘extensive’ new ground operations in Gaza

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get donated food at a distribution center in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza’s bakeries could shut down within a week under Israel’s blockade of all food and supplies

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samu Magdy and Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath - Associated Press

An injured United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) worker is brought into al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the U.N. described as a strike in which an explosive ordnance was "dropped or fired" in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

U.N. to reduce staff in Gaza and blames Israel for a strike that killed its employee

By Wafaa Shurafa and Edith M. Lederer and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Palestinian kids look at a damaged residential building following an overnight Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hamas-run Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war

By Wafaa Shurafa and Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Fatma Abu Awad and her daughter Malak pray in a graveyard where their relatives who were killed by an Israeli airstrike are buried, in Khan Younis, Gaza, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, officials say

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Displaced residents walk on the rubble of their destroyed house in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

3 die in overcrowding outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage

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People observe a mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the city of Khan Younis, sothern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

Israel raids a Gaza hospital and its strike on a home kills 13 children

By Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

An Israeli Apache helicopter flies past the sun, near the Israeli-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Drone strike in Israel wounds more than 60 as Hezbollah claims responsibility

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk next a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza after first case in 25 years

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Displaced Palestinians gather for food distribution in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli evacuation orders pack Palestinians into shrinking ‘humanitarian zone’ where food is scarce

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This image made from a video, shows the yard of a school after being hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo)

An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school kills at least 80 people, Palestinian health officials say

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A view of the makeshift tent camp where Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are staying, in the Muwasi area, southern Gaza, Jan. 1, 2024. The Israeli military ordered Monday, July 22, the evacuation of part of the area of the Gaza Strip, which they had designated a humanitarian zone. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

An Israeli airstrike hits a school sheltering people in Gaza, killing at least 30

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A Palestinian man holds the body of his child killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A boy in Gaza was killed by an Israeli airstrike. His father held him and wouldn’t let go

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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk next to a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas has cleared the way for a possible cease-fire after dropping key demand, officials say

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Children attend an activity at a makeshift class in Deir al Balah, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Since the war erupted Oct 7, all schools in Gaza have closed, and nearly 90% of school buildings are damaged or destroyed, according to aid groups. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareen Hana)

For the children of Gaza, war means no school — and no indication when formal learning might return

By Wafaa Shurafa and Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Biden says Netanyahu’s approach to the war is a mistake, deepening a rift between the two allies

By Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

Palestinians look for survivors of the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israel orders mass evacuations as it widens offensive; Palestinians are running out of places to go

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Fire and smoke rises from buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Israeli forces sever north Gaza from the rest of the territory ahead of expected push into Gaza City

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press