Tag: Gazas
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How does Gaza’s Ministry of Health calculate death tolls?
[ad_1] JERUSALEM – How many Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and Hamas started? With Israel besieging and bombing territory at a scale never seen before, arriving at a precise answer isn’t easy. Cell service is spotty. Internet and power are out. Airstrikes have pulverized roads…
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Why Is Gaza’s Rafah Border Crossing With Egypt So Important?
[ad_1] After Israel imposed a complete siege of the Gaza Strip in response to the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, the strip’s border crossing with Egypt became even more critical, as the only point not controlled by Israel where civilians can enter and leave Gaza by land. But Egypt has kept the crossing, near…
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Gaza’s Hospitals Face ‘Impossible’ Choices With Israel Evacuation Order
[ad_1] As Israel called for Gazans to leave the north of the besieged enclave, hospitals in Gaza City said they had no way to evacuate thousands of sick and injured patients and that there were not enough hospitals to treat them in the south. With a widely anticipated ground invasion looming, the city’s hospitals continued…
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Israel-Hamas war: Morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowing
[ad_1] GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed Thursday as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them on the sixth day of Israel’s heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people. With scores of Palestinians killed each day in the Israeli onslaught after an…