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Arab News
March 9, 2018
GAZA CITY: Haitham has spent the past eight years smuggling Marlboro cigarettes from Egypt into Gaza through the elaborate network of underground ... At the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city, about 80,000 people endure cramped, squalid conditions, with limited access to fresh drinking water andÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 1, 2018
At Ismail's funeral on Monday at Gaza City's Al Shati refugee camp, hundreds gathered in the streets waiting the whole day for Ismail's corpse, which never arrived. According to Al Shifa Hospital, Israel is still withholding the body, violating international humanitarian law. Ismail's father, Saleh Abu Riyala satÃâà...
Haaretz
January 31, 2018
Israel will submit a $1-billion dollar plan for easing the Gaza Strip's humanitarian crisis, which it will ask the international community to fund, at an emergency meeting on Wednesday of donor states. The plan's centerpiece will be Israeli assistance in building infrastructure projects, including desalinationÃâà...
Haaretz
January 20, 2018
Palestinians filling bottles and jerricans with drinking water at the Al-Shati refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, March 22, 2017. ... Almost all of the drinking water in the Gaza Strip is impotable because of sewage pollution or high salinity levels, according to data presented last week by a hydrologistÃâà...
NBCNews.com
January 18, 2018
A Palestinian woman rides in a car after collecting aid provided by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNWRA, in Gaza City on Jan. 17, 2018. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees faces its worst funding crisis ever after the United States froze tens of millions of dollars in contributions.
Haaretz
January 17, 2018
A Palestinian man carries food supplies at a United Nations food distribution center in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, January 15, 2018. ... Asked Monday about the state of Gaza following a Haaretz report warning of the impending crisis, Netanyahu deflected the blame to Hamas and its predilection forÃâà...
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