“When I saw the scene I couldn’t handle it,” said Dr. Ahmad al-Farra, who went back [to Khan Younis] on Sunday to find his family’s 3-story villa reduced to a pile of rubble....“I worked for 20 years to build this house.'
By Hiba Yazbek هبة يزبك
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Exclusive: a UN food truck was hit on Feb 5 but CNN has seen correspondence between UNRWA and COGAT confirming the route in advance. Despite this it was still struck by naval gunfire. Satellite imagery shows IDF boats visible after. Muhammad Darwish cnn.com/2024/02/21/mid…

Eleven-year-old Dareen al-Bayaa lost dozens of her family members in a single airstrike in Gaza. She is one of at least 17,000 children across the territory who have been orphaned or separated from their parents.

New: Our analysis of social media videos found Israeli soldiers filming themselves in Gaza destroying civilian property, including a number of homes. We focused on combat engineers, who used D9 bulldozers and explosives to destroy civilian buildings.
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“I stopped counting how many neighborhoods I’ve erased.”

Videos show Israeli soldiers in Gaza vandalizing shops and classrooms, destroying civilian property and disparaging Palestinians.

By Aric Toler, Sarah Kerr, Adam Sella, Arijeta Lajka, Chevaz Clarke.
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Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s continuing war on Gaza ⤵️

Know their names: aje.io/06omb

🚨More than 100 hours have passed and the fate of our colleagues Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al Madhoun from the PRCS ambulance team, who went to rescue the 6-year-old girl, Hind, remains unknown.
Where is Hind? Where are Yousef and Ahmed? Are they still alive? We want to know their…

Watch Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi, a surgeon, describe “two days of horror” at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. He documented the scene at one of the last functioning hospitals still providing medical care in the area. nyti.ms/3SggmEN

In an area of Gaza that Israel designated a “safe zone,” Ramzi Abu Sahloul was among a group of 5 men, their hands up, one of them brandishing a white flag. He said he was trying to reach his mother and brother to escort them out of harm’s way. An Israeli sniper shot him dead.

“They treated us like animals,” said a released Gazan detainee. “They would hit us with sticks and hurl curses at us.”

“Your hands are tied and your eyes are blindfolded and you are on your knees,” said another.

Essential reporting by Raja Abdulrahim
nytimes.com/2024/01/23/wor…

Stripped, Beaten or Vanished: Israel’s Treatment of Gaza Detainees Raises Alarm

UN said Israel’s treatment of detainees might amount to torture. Thousands have been detained and held in “horrific” conditions. Some were freed wearing only diapers. nytimes.com/2024/01/23/wor…

The Biden administration acknowledged it conducted no formal assessment of whether Israel is violating international humanitarian law in its war against Hamas, fueling intense criticism as President Biden shows no signs of wanting to change approach.
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The Geneva Conventions make clear that prisoners in wartime must be humanely treated. News reporting and testimonies from released Palestinian prisoners in Gaza point instead to enforced nudity, abuse and humiliation of men and boys. news.sky.com/story/israel-h…

At night, amid heavy rains and dropping temperatures, Heba and Ehab held their two youngest children tightly, relying on their body heat and a thin blanket to keep them warm as water and gusts of wind blew through the holes in their makeshift tent in Gaza.
nytimes.com/2023/12/24/wor…

Almost all of the residents of Jenin camp had fled in recent weeks. Of the handful who remained, few dared venture out onto the street.

Christina Goldbaum and I spent a day at the camp that had been ravaged by dozens of Israeli military raids in recent weeks.
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A The New York Times visual investigation found that the Israeli military used 2,000-pound bombs (one of the most destructive munitions in Western military arsenals) at least 200 times in south Gaza, the area it designated safe for civilians. Video, no-paywall link: nytimes.com/video/world/10…