Gaza and Beyond: The Dialogue Between Hamas and the Israeli Regime in the Middle East and the Reconciliation of a Nation’s Lives
The military said an Israeli soldier had died when a tank overturned. Most of the soldiers were killed on Oct. 7.
About a thousand Palestinians have died in Gaza since Friday, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, bringing the overall death toll there to more than 8,000.
After two nights and a day of internet and phone service outages, Palestinian communications came back on Sunday. Across Gaza and beyond, Palestinians expressed relief as families were able to reach loved ones.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have left the northern part of Gaza and are now in the south. Schools, hospitals and mosques are all sheltering hundreds of people, and private homes are crowded with dozens or more. In total, 1.4 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes, the U.N. says.
At Ah-Ahli Arab Hospital, hospital officials have evacuated displaced people, but staff are still treating patients, said Dr. Fadel Naim, an orthopedic surgeon working there. The hospital was the site of a deadly explosion on Oct. 17 that killed at least 100 people, according to estimates by U.S. intelligence services.
According to Palestinian witnesses, Israeli troops have entered Gaza from its north and east. Israeli military officials have reported skirmishes between Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers. An NPR producer in central Gaza reported that a tank and bulldozer were located south of Gaza City on the main highway that runs through the Gaza Strip.
Food in Gaza has been difficult to come by. The lack of electricity and fuel for generators has put many food suppliers out of operation. People living in Gaza tell NPR that it’s difficult to find open vendors or to get a good price for bread.
Thousands of people broke into UNRWA warehouses on Saturday and stole wheat flour and other survival supplies.
Israeli Presses into Gaza as Pro-Palestinian Protests Spread Worldwide: A Palestinian-American Family with a 3-year-old Son
Civil order is beginning to break down after three weeks of war and a siege on Gaza. White said that people are scared, frustrated and desperate.
“Very few trucks, slow processes, strict inspections, supplies that do not match the requirements of UNRWA and the other aid organizations, and mostly the ongoing ban on fuel, are all a recipe for a failed system,” he said.
Israel would authorize the Palestinian Water Authority to make repairs to damaged water lines in central Gaza, as well as restore water supply to the area. The U.N. reported that water supply in southern Gaza had experienced “significant improvement” in recent days as its agencies have delivered small amounts of fuel to desalination plants and pumping stations.
“We’ve taken extreme measures to reserve any water we have left.” Abood Okal, a Palestinian- American and resident of Massachusetts, was in Gaza when the war began and has since been stranded.
He, his wife and 1-year-old son are sheltering in a home in southern Gaza with about 40 or so other people, he said. Every day, members of the household have been walking to the station to refill their gallons for family and friends.
Gaza Crisis and Hamas Instability in the Dagestan Regime: Israeli Airstrike Disappearance in a Jenin Mosque
Okal had said Thursday evening that the filtration station ran out of diesel last Thursday. “We are almost out of drinking water today. I think we have just enough to last us through tonight, then tomorrow we’ll be basically out,” he said.
In New York City, London, Madrid, Casablanca, Istanbul, Islamabad and other cities worldwide, tens of thousands of people took part in pro-Palestinian protests this past weekend, calling for a cease-fire.
There were pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted the arrival of the Tel Aviv flight in Russia’s Muslim-majority region of Dagestan.
The video was posted on social media and shows a crowd on the tarmac at the Makhachkala airport.
All of the people of Chechnya sympathize with those who have suffered due to the actions of politicians and unrighteous people. The incident at the airport is outrageous and should be assessed by law enforcement agencies, said the head of the Dagestan Republic in a Telegram post.
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military’s intensified ground operations in Gaza pushed into a fourth day Monday as part of its so-called “second phase” of its war with the militant group Hamas.
All the while, Israel’s unrelenting airstrike campaign over the entirety of Gaza has continued. Airstrikes hit at least 300 targets in Gaza during the past day, Israel said Tuesday.
Among Israel’s targets is Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a Sunday night news conference. The Israelis claim that Sinwar was the architect of the attack on Israel that left 1,400 dead.
JENIN, West Bank — The mosque is unrecognizable. The stairway to the upper floor, now lacking a wall to support it, is leaning strangely. The Pillars are holding up the ceiling. Rubble is piled up outside. And through the holes in the floor, a man peers into the basement where Israeli security forces say Palestinian militants were storing weapons.
The Israeli airstrike that destroyed the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin on Oct. 22 was an unusual occurrence for the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces usually favor ground raids instead. The officials in Jenin said at least two Palestinians were killed.
Beyond Jenin, across the West Bank, Palestinians say that Israel has tightened restrictions and Israel’s security forces have stepped up operations since the Gaza-based militant group Hamas launched attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people.
More than 10,000 people live in the refugee camp, a part of Jenin packed with squat concrete houses and apartment buildings separated by steep, winding alleys. Most residents are descendants of Palestinian refugees who fled to Israel in 1948, and they object to the Israeli occupation that has lasted for decades.
The Israeli raids and strikes leave Palestinians wary in the West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinians say they’re desperate to leave their families behind
The mosque airstrike came after midnight on Oct. 22. When it hit, Noor Damaj was outside drinking tea with relatives in an unfinished apartment above his uncle’s home, next door to the mosque.
“I wanted to go down and see what had happened to my family. Damaj says he couldn’t get in. “It was so bad that we couldn’t see anything.”
Rubble from the mosque had piled up against their home’s exterior doors, he says, trapping them outside and other family members inside. It took an hour and a half to clear.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said the target of the strike was an “underground terror compound” at the mosque that was being used by members of Hamas and another militant group, Islamic Jihad.
Israeli security forces raid the refugee camp more than once a year. The camp was attacked by hundreds of troops in July. It was the largest operation in the West Bank for a long time.
People say things were relatively quiet until last week. Three Palestinians were killed when the Israeli airstrike hit, and at least one died in a second raid, according to Palestinian officials.
In July, Zakarneh told NPR that he wanted to emigrate as his wife and one of their daughters are American citizens. They said that they had applied several years ago, but their case has not moved anywhere yet.
It is hard to solve problems in Jenin. He has a good job, a nice house and a family to care for — but not everyone in the refugee camp has a life like that. Many of the residents in Jenin are poor.
The Gaza strike of February 11, 2001: Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the Israeli Prime Minister, Matthew Miller, and the U.S. on a possible truce in Israel
Hours later, their blood was still on the ground. There were scraps of metal and leftover pieces of homemade bombs in the room.
The strike hit just outside a cemetery where Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are buried. Locals said the cemetery is full. All the people who died in the attacks were buried next to a new graveyard.
He wouldn’t have put homemade explosives in his possession, he says. But when he was asked what his future holds, he said he was a freedom fighter.
Matthew Miller said at a Monday press briefing that there are significant hurdles to be overcome. “There is no higher priority, from the President on down.”
The Secretary of State has been in close contact with the officials in Qatari, who are involved in negotiations over the release of hostages and the safe exit of Americans from Gaza. Hamas controls the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and has blocked foreign citizens from leaving, officials say.
Israel will not agree to a cease-fire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press conference Monday. He compared the calls for a truce in Israel to asking the U.S. to stop fighting after Pearl Harbor.
The Oct. 7 Attacks on the Hamas in Gaza: Israeli Charged with the Oasis of Abu Ajina
In recent days, the number of Hamas hostages reported by Israeli officials has increased, due to what officials describe as complications with identifying foreign citizens. Israel says there are more than 200 hostages. Five have so far been freed.
On Tuesday, Israel claimed the death of Nasim Abu Ajina, a Hamas fighter whom Israel said helped lead the Oct. 7 attacks, in which some 2,000 Hamas fighters flooded across Gaza’s border and killed 1,400 people and kidnapped hundreds of others. Abu Ajina “directed” the portion of the assault in two Israeli towns just north of Gaza, a statement from Israel’s military said.
Israel continues to deny that its current operation is a “ground invasion,” referring to it only as an “expanded operation” or a “new phase” in the war despite the continual presence of its troops in Gaza.