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#gaza

Saja al-Ghoul sat working on her latest mobile app idea. The 23-year-old programmer, like her colleagues working from the space, is focused on developing apps that can help solve some of the difficulties of living in the Palestinian enclave. Identifying a problem is not difficult; two years of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and a ceasefire that has not stopped attacks, or allowed for proper reconstruction to take place, mean that the enclave is teeming with crises.

Conflict monitor ACLED, which tracks Israeli attacks in Gaza, said in a report on Wednesday that Israel had carried out 35 percent more attacks in April than in March. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, 120 Palestinians, including eight women and 13 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the US-Israel war on Iran halted on April 8, a 20 percent increase compared with the five weeks prior when Israel was striking Iran.

Accepting the award, executive producer Ben de Pear thanked the journalists behind the film before directly addressing the BBC, which aired the Bafta ceremony on BBC One with a delay of more than two hours: Finally, just a question for the BBC: Given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight? Journalist and presenter Ramita Navai also criticised the broadcaster during her speech, citing findings from the documentary's investigation into attacks on Gaza's healthcare system.

The tenth Palestine International Marathon has been run in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a parallel race held in Gaza after a two-year hiatus caused by Israel's war on the Strip.

Survivors said that even after they were released, their struggle did not end as survival started another psychological battle, with the harrowing memories of imprisonment still haunting them. Survivor Mohammed al-Bakri was arrested during Israeli military operations in Gaza in March 2024 and was jailed for about 20 months. He was transferred between several Israeli detention centres before ending up in a prison in occupied East Jerusalem. There he remained blindfolded and handcuffed alongside other detainees for months, cut off from the outside world, he told Al Jazeera.

Dear Teresa, I'm sorry for not being home with you right now. Unfortunately your father, your mother, and so many people around the world understood the historical task that we have the responsibility to fulfil.

I didn't need a piece of paper or to see the bracelet he was wearing to know he was my son. As soon as I saw him, I was sure, the man affirms.

The new cafes and restaurants do not prove that normality is coming back to Gaza. They are a testament to its continuing genocidal abnormality.

Abdullah Albadri, 34, had only arrived in the UK in a small boat from France 16 days before the attempted attack on 28 April 2025. He was arrested trying to scale the railings of the heavily-guarded embassy, and asked the armed diplomatic protection officers who detained him, 'Why are you stopping me from making crimes?'

Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Sa'ar, stated that the IDF successfully blocked attempts to breach the lawful naval blockade on Gaza and the arrival of vessels from the provocative flotilla. He confirmed that all participants taken off the vessels were unharmed.

Wendy Sherman stated, 'It is critical that Israel remains an ally of the U.S. and we protect the right of a Jewish state. I also believe that Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] has led us down a road - and we have been part of it - that has, in essence, created a genocide in Gaza that has destabilized the Middle East.'

The elections had been held at a highly sensitive moment amid complex challenges and exceptional circumstances, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa said as results were announced on Sunday.

The Israeli war has completely devastated Gaza's agricultural sector, leaving approximately 90 percent of farmland unusable due to bombing, bulldozing, or seizure.

I am very happy today, because this is a truly Palestinian democratic celebration. Many generations have been deprived of it for more than 21 years, and today my daughter is voting for the first time.

The closure of the international humanitarian law cell means that funding for the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project, run by the Centre for Information Resilience, will also end. This project has been crucial in documenting incidents in Gaza since the war began in October 2023.

Residents of Deir el-Balah are eager for tangible solutions rather than political slogans as they prepare for the first municipal elections in over two decades. The scars of Israel's war are evident, and the community seeks effective governance to address their pressing needs.

Samah always keeps her children, three-year-old Mayaseen, and four-year-old Asaad, in sight, and spends most of her day cleaning in a desperate attempt to discourage the rats, but to no avail.