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About 300,000 Gazans Have Fled Rafah, U.N. Says
The main United Nations agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza said early Sunday that about 300,000 people had fled over the past week from Rafah, the city in the enclave’s southernmost tip where more than a million displaced Gazans had sought shelter ...
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What We Know About Where Aid Can Enter Gaza
Following Israel’s incursion into Rafah this week, the Israeli military briefly shut down the Kerem Shalom crossing and seized the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, choking the flow of desperately needed food, fuel and medical supplies at a time when ...
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Biden’s Real Mistake in Pausing Military Aid to Israel
It is unfortunate that President Biden chose to announce his pause of some weapons sales to Israel while on a political campaign swing through Wisconsin. I use that word — “unfortunate” — not because I don’t understand why Biden did so, but because ...
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Actions by Israel and Egypt Squeeze Gaza Aid Routes
For a few weeks, after extraordinary international pressure and warnings of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip, Israel announced new steps to increase humanitarian aid and more supplies entered the territory. But the flow of aid, the vast majority ...
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American Aid Ship Heads to Gaza, but the System for Unloading It Still Isn’t in Place
An American vessel carrying aid intended for the Gaza has departed from Cyprus, the Pentagon said on Thursday, but the temporary floating pier constructed by the U.S. military is not in place to unload the food and supplies meant for the enclave. Maj ...
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Fighting in Rafah and Closure of Gaza Crossings Threaten Aid Operation, U.N. Says
The United Nations has warned that Israel’s military incursion into Rafah and closure of border crossings is a major setback for aid operations in the Gaza Strip, with dire implications for its people. No aid trucks have entered Gaza since Sunday ...
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Israel Reopens a Gaza Crossing That Is an Important Aid Route
Israel reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into the Gaza Strip, the Israeli agency overseeing aid deliveries in the territory said Wednesday, reinstating one of two critical entry points for humanitarian aid that it had closed. The Kerem Shalom ...
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Israel’s Closures of 2 Gaza Border Crossings Prompt Alarm Over Humanitarian Aid
With its seizure of the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Tuesday, Israel has now closed two key crossings for aid into Gaza, drawing sharp warnings from international agencies and officials who said the moves could exacerbate an ...
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Netanyahu Asserts Israel’s Right to Fight Its Enemies in Defiant Speech
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday rejected international pressure to rein in its military campaign in Gaza and, speaking at a Holocaust memorial, asserted Israel’s right to fight its “genocidal enemies.” Nearly seven months into ...
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Hamas Claims Rocket Attack That Closes Key Crossing Between Israel and Gaza
Hamas said on Sunday that its armed wing had fired rockets at Israeli forces near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Gaza and Israel. Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster, reported that the attack injured several people. The Israeli military said ...