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GAZA CITY, GAZA - JULY 20: Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza. For the past ten years Gaza residents have lived with constant power shortages, in recent years these cuts have worsened, with supply of regular power limited to four hours a day. On June 11, 2017 Israel announced a new round of cuts at the request of the Palestinian authorities and the decision was seen as an attempt by President Mahmoud Abbas to pressure Gaza's Hamas leadership. Prior to the new cuts Gaza received 150 megawatts per day, far below it's requirements of 450 megawatts. In April, Gaza's sole power station which supplied 60 megawatts shut down, after running out of fuel, the three lines from Egypt, which provided 27 megawatts are rarely operational, leaving Gaza reliant on the 125 megawatts supplied by Israel's power plant. The new cuts now restrict electricity to three hours a day severely effecting hospital patients with chronic conditions and babies on life support. During blackout hours residents use private generators, solar panels and battery operated light sources to live. June 2017 also marked ten years since Israel began a land, sea and air blockade over Gaza. Under the blockade, movement of people and goods is restricted and exports and imports of raw materials have been banned. The restrictions have virtually cut off access for Gaza's two million residents to the outside world and unemployment rates have skyrocketed forcing many people into poverty and leaving approximately 80% of the population dependent on humanitarian aid. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Hamas officials say group willing to disarm if Palestinian state is established
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UN demands investigation after mass graves found at Gaza hospitals raided by Israel
Iranian worshippers chant slogans as they hold a poster of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and an anti-Israeli placard during their anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. An apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran saw troops fire air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan, an assault coming in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Iran and Israel have averted an all-out war – for now
Jordanian King Abdullah II speaks to the media in October 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
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Jordan walks a tightrope after downing Iranian drones and missiles
This handout photo shows the Israeli war cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, holding a meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 14. Portions of this photo have been blurred by the source.
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Restraint or retribution? Israel faces dilemma in its response to Iran’s attack
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14424121h) A Palestinian is carrying boxes of aid distributed before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2024. Eid al-Fitr in Gaza, Palestine - 08 Apr 2024
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Israel says aid to Gaza is ramping up — but the UN says it’s yet to see a major change on the ground
Emergency services work at a destroyed building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, on April 1, 2024.
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Iran wants to punish Israel for the killing of its commanders. But its options are limited
ISTANBUL, TURKEY- APRIL 01: (TURKEY OUT) Supporters celebrate as Ekrem İmamoğlu speaks after his re-election as the chairman of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality at the CHP Istanbul Provincial Directorate on April 1, 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. In a setback to Erdogan, the Republican People's Party (CHP) retained control of the country's urban areas and won 36 of 81 provinces, according to published reports. Results also show the opposition making inroads into Erdogan party strongholds in its electoral victory over the president since he came to power two decades ago. (Photo by Ozan Guzelce/ dia images via Getty Images)
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Turkey’s Erdogan dealt major election blow as opposition party wins big cities
DUBLIN, IRELAND - 2023/10/28: A protester chants slogans on a megaphone during the demonstration. Thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Dublin City in support of Palestinians. Protesters demanded an immediate cease-fire, the expulsion of Israel's ambassador in Dublin, a boycott of Israeli-supporting products and organizations, and action from the Irish government. (Photo by Natalia Campos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Why Ireland is the most pro-Palestinian nation in Europe
The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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The US allowed a Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass at the UN. What does that mean for the war?
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Netanyahu says he’s trying everything to get more aid to Gaza. Aid groups say that’s not true
The Open Arms vessel (C) is pictured in the Cypriot port of Larnaca on March 11, 2024. A Cyprus government spokesman said a Spanish charity ship with food aid was set to sail from the island within hours to the coastal Gaza Strip, where the UN has repeatedly warned of famine. The non-governmental group Open Arms said its boat would tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food, which its partner the US charity World Central Kitchen would later unload on Gaza's shores. (Photo by Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP) (Photo by IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Aid is being shipped to Gaza by sea. But a new maritime corridor is unlikely to stop the looming famine
RAFAH, GAZA - FEBRUARY 29: Palestinian children taking refuge in Tel al-Sultan region due to Israeli attacks decorate their tents with Ramadan lanterns and illuminate lights ahead of the holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan in Rafah, Gaza on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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This Ramadan, starving Gazans will break their fast with scraps found in the garbage
From left, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Rift between Biden and Netanyahu widens as Israeli leader vows to press on with Rafah operation
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak on February 27, 2024. As Israelis are called up to join the war effort in Gaza, anger is mounting at the ultra-Orthodox community which has long been spared the compulsory military service required of most citizens. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
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Why ultra-Orthodox conscription could threaten Israel’s coalition
Palestinian children wait to receive food distributed by a charity kitchen, in the southern city of Rafah, on March 5. Israel's military campaign in Gaza has consigned civilians to deadly starvation.
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Newborns die of hunger and mothers struggle to feed their children as Israel’s siege condemns Gazans to starvation
ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - FEBRUARY 29: Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian photojournalist who worked and first handedly saw the Israeli attacks in the Gaza for 107 days, examines the Evidence book released by Anadolu which contains the weapons and tactics used by Israel on Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkiye on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Mustafa Hassouna/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Why Motaz Azaiza, the Palestinian photographer who captured the war, chose to leave Gaza
Mandatory Credit: Photo by ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14367086a) An Iranian woman with her child walk next to the general election billboard for the upcoming parliamentary elections, in a street in Tehran, Iran, 27 February 2024. Iranians on 01 March 2024 will vote for new members of Iran's parliament, and for the Assembly of Experts, the body in charge of appointing Iran's Supreme Leader. Campaigning for Iran's legislative election, Tehran, Iran Islamic Republic Of - 27 Feb 2024
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Polls close in Iran elections as calls for resistance vote fall on deaf ears
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Netanyahu unveils plan for Gaza’s future post-Hamas
Israeli Druze attentd a Druze-led rally to protest against the 'Jewish Nation-State law' in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv on Aug. 04, 2018. Tens of thousands of Israeli Druze and their supporters gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest against the 'Jewish Nation-State' law. (Photo by Gili Yaari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Israel’s Druze Arabs, fiercely loyal to the state, feel let down after ‘paying with their blood’
Israeli Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on October 28 that fighting inside the Gaza Strip would be "long and difficult", as Israeli ground forces operate in the Palestinian territory for more than 24 hours. (Photo by Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli minister says ground offensive in Rafah will begin by Ramadan if hostages aren’t returned
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, gather as they seek shelter at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Egypt on edge as Israel’s war presses more than a million Palestinians up against its border
NORTH SINAI, EGYPT - OCTOBER 16: Volunteers load food and supplies onto trucks in an aid convoy for Gaza on October 16, 2023 in North Sinai, Egypt. The aid convoy, organized by a group of Egyptian set off on Saturday 14th from Cairo for the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah. On October 7th, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on border communities in southern Israel, spurring the most violent flare-up of the Israel-Palestine conflict in decades. Israel launched a vast bombing campaign in retaliation and has warned of an imminent ground invasion. (Photo by Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images)
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Why only a trickle of aid is getting into Gaza
SANAA, YEMEN - JANUARY 22: A view of the Houthi supporters gather while carrying heavy weapons and chant slogans to stage a parade and demonstration against the US and UK attacks while carrying Palestinian flags at the Bani Hushaish area in Sanaa, Yemen on January 22, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Why Yemen’s Houthi rebels welcome conflict with the US
A view of a bag of flour at the area where UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) distributes flour to families as Israeli attacks continue in Rafah of Gaza on January 28, 2024.
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The demise of the UN’s Palestinian agency could spell disaster for millions. Here’s why Israel wants it dismantled
This image taken by the U.S. Air Force shows U.S. Army troops from the 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 163rd Cavalry Regiment, board a C-17 Globemaster III during an exercise at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, Aug. 10, 2022. The U.S. Air Force said Saturday, Aug. 20, it was the subject of a "propaganda attack" by a previously unheard-of Iraqi militant group that falsely claimed it had launched a drone attack targeting American troops at an air base in Kuwait. (Staff Sgt. Dalton Willians/U.S. Air Force, via AP)
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The US and Iran are dangerously close to confrontation in the Middle East. Here’s where they both operate
Judges are seen at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, on Friday.
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Why both South Africa and Israel are welcoming the UN court’s ruling in a landmark genocide case
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 24, 2023. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS//File Photo
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Netanyahu touts ‘initiative’ to free hostages in Gaza as pressure mounts
South Africa's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, center, and Palestinian assistant Minister of Multilateral Affairs Ammar Hijazi, right, address the media outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations' top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
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Israel’s war in Gaza has exposed a deepening global divide
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Israel’s far-right wants to move Palestinians out of Gaza. Its ideas are gaining attention
This pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attending a meeting with Russia's President in Riyadh on December 6, 2023. (Photo by Sergei SAVOSTYANOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SAVOSTYANOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Saudi Arabia isn’t ruling out befriending Israel. But it may come at a higher price
Relatives and friends bid farewell to the body of Al Jazeera camera operator Samer Abu Daqqa in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday, December 16. Abu Daqqa died of wounds sustained in an Israeli attack on Khan Younis, the network said on Friday.
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Israel is facing a genocide case in international court. Could it halt the war in Gaza?
A still from a video appears to show Palestinians detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a stadium in northern Gaza.
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Three months on, Israel is entering a new phase of war. Is it still trying to ‘destroy’ Hamas?
SDEROT, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 28: Smoke rises from an explosion in Gaza on October 28, 2023 in Sderot, Israel. In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas that left 1,400 dead and 200 kidnapped, Israel launched a sustained bombardment of the Gaza Strip and threatened a ground invasion to vanquish the militant group that governs the Palestinian territory. But the fate of the hostages, Israelis and foreign nationals who are being held by Hamas in Gaza, as well as international pressure over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, have complicated Israel's military response to the attacks. A timeline for a proposed ground invasion remains unclear. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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One month on, what we know about the Israel-Hamas war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) chairs a Cabinet meeting at the Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2023. Netanyahu said Israel displayed unparalleled "morality" in the Gaza war and rejected South Africa's charge that it was committing "genocidal" acts in the Palestinian territory. (Photo by ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel’s Supreme Court deals huge blow to Netanyahu, but one he may have to swallow
An Israeli soldier secures a tunnel underneath Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, November 22, 2023.
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Israel is testing out flooding the Hamas tunnels. Here’s what it could look like scaled up
15 November 2023, Palestinian Territories, Khan Yunis: Palestinians take shelter at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in the city of Khan Yunis, after they fled northern Gaza Strip in fear of Israeli bombardment. Photo by: Mohammed Talatene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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‘We have the right to live.’ Starvation, disease, and winter chill threaten the survival of displaced civilians in Gaza
Refaat Al-Areer, a prominent Palestinian professor, poet and writer, was killed in an airstrike, in northern Gaza, on December 7. His friend and colleague, Mosab Abu Toha, took this photo of Al-Areer picking strawberries in Gaza, on March 27, 2022.
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Prominent Gaza professor and writer killed in airstrike, weeks after telling CNN he and his family had ‘nowhere else to go’
Released Palestinian prisoners react from inside a vehicle after leaving the Israeli military prison, Ofer, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 26, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Release of Palestinian prisoners sheds light on controversial Israeli justice system in the occupied West Bank
Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan wears a yellow Star of David that reads "Never Again" in honor of those killed in the unprecedented attack by Hamas, which triggered an ongoing war, as he addresses members of the U.N. Security Council at United Nations headquarters Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
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Israel-UN relations at historic low as secretary-general invokes rare diplomatic measure
People gather with signs for a demonstration calling upon the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take action for the release of hostages abducted by Palestinian militants on October 7 and currently held in the Gaza Strip, outside the ICRC offices in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2023 amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Leaked audio of heated meeting reveals hostages’ fury at Netanyahu
This picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke rising from buildings after being hit by Israeli strikes, as battles resume between Israel and Hamas militants, on December 1, 2023. A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas expired on December 1, with the Israeli army saying combat operations had resumed, accusing Hamas of violating the operational pause. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Israel-Hamas truce is over. Here’s what could happen next
A Palestinian child looks through a broken window of a destroyed building, in Rafah, Gaza on November 15.
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As fighting pauses, Gazans displaced from north want to return home to bury their dead
Al-Shifa hospital and surroundings in Gaza on November 7.
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Why Gaza’s largest hospital has become the ‘epicenter’ of Israel’s war on Hamas
Soldiers of Israel's army move from the border with Gaza, as seen from Southern Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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Israel is tightening its control of northern Gaza. But there is no clear post-war strategy in sight
Two million people are trapped in Gaza, but I managed to get out. Here's my story
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I was one of the lucky few to escape Gaza. Here’s how I fled for my life
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This Palestinian girl went from wearing a sparkly tiara to bandages. Even in her hospital bed, she may not be safe
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 4: Families of kidnapped hostages join thousands of supporters in a protest to demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secure the release of Israeli hostages, at the Family of Hostages Square outside The Kirya (HaKirya) on November 4, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Family members have erected tents and began sleeping in the Square last night to reaffirm their commitment that the emergency government see them and bringing the hostages back should be the first priority. They have said they will stay there until every hostage is returned to Israel. As Israel's response to Hamas's Oct 7 attacks entered its fourth week, the Israeli PM said the current war would be a long one and would amount to a "second war of independence." In the wake Hamas's attacks that left 1,400 dead and 230 kidnapped, Israel launched a sustained bombardment of the Gaza Strip and began a ground invasion to vanquish the militant group that governs the Palestinian territory. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why
A displaced Palestinian elderly woman stands at the door of her tent with her grandchildren next to her, inside tents in the Japanese neighborhood in the city of Khan Yunis, on October 29, 2023. (Loay Ayyoub for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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In Gaza, being a mother is a matter of life and death
Palestinians cross to the Egyptian side of the border crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. in Rafah Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
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What is the Rafah crossing, Gazans’ last hope to escape the war, and how does it work?