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UN Security Council demands ceasefire amid Israeli airstrikes

UN Security Council demands ceasefire amid Israeli airstrikes

THE United Nations Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas as Israeli forces carried out new airstrikes in Gaza and laid siege to two hospitals. After vetoing three earlier draft council resolutions on the war in the Gaza Strip, Israel's main ally, the United States, abstained in the vote following global pressure for a ceasefire to ease fears of famine after nearly six months of war. Hamas welcomed the resolution, which also demanded the unconditional release of all hostages seized by the militant group in its deadly October 7 raid on southern Israel.…
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Gaza death toll: why counting the dead has become a daily struggle

Gaza death toll: why counting the dead has become a daily struggle

IN the morgue of the Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza, workers wrap the corpses of people killed in Israeli airstrikes in white cloth amid the stench of death. They record whatever basic facts they can about the dead: name, identity card number, age, and sex. Some of the bodies are badly mutilated. Only those that have been identified or claimed by relatives can go for burial and be included in the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll for the war. The rest are stored in the morgue's refrigerator, often for weeks. The toll reached 20,057 people on Friday, amid renewed international calls…
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Displaced by Israeli bombs, Gazans camp by rubble of their homes

Displaced by Israeli bombs, Gazans camp by rubble of their homes

NIDAL Al-MUGHRABI TENTS have replaced some high-rises in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, where heavy Israeli airstrikes left several families homeless and doubtful that rebuilding will start soon. Palestinians in the enclave have already received some pledges of financial help for reconstruction after 11 days of fighting. Egypt and Qatar, which helped to mediate a truce that started on Friday, each promised to allocate $500 million. In Beit Lahiya, children played among the wreckage of homes. Adults drank tea on broken furniture. Banners carried the names of the bereft homeowners. A sign bore the names of four children,…
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Desperate Gazans flee Israeli bombardment in cars and carts

Desperate Gazans flee Israeli bombardment in cars and carts

MOHAMMAD SALEM and NIDAL al-MUGHRABI AFTER days of heavy Israeli airstrikes, and then intensifying artillery fire, some terrified residents of north Gaza are not waiting to see if there is a repeat of 2014, when a ground assault followed. Under heavy shelling on Thursday night, Rewaa Marouf grabbed her children and fled the town of Beit Lahiya, close to Gaza's northern border with Israel. She ended up in a U.N.-run school in Jabalia refugee camp, joining dozens of others crammed inside, while on the roads outside people were heading further south in cars, on donkey carts or by foot. "We…
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