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At least 12 women and children killed during Israeli strike in Gaza as war grinds into the new year

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, Associated Press

Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes have killed at least 12 people in Gaza, mostly women and children.

Gazan women struggle with a life stripped of privacy in crowded tent camps

By Wafaa Shurafa, Julia Frankel, Associated Press

For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.

Fourth infant freezes to death in Gaza as displaced families share blankets in seaside tents

By Wafaa Shurafa, Majdi Mohammed, Associated Press

A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war are huddled in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives.

Israeli troops burn northern Gaza hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients, officials say

By Wafaa Shurafa, Fatma Khaled, Lee Keath, Associated Press

Staff say it has been hit multiple times in the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in surrounding neighborhoods.

Palestinians in Bethlehem mark another subdued Christmas Eve during war in Gaza

By Jalal Bwaitel, Associated Press

The war, the violence in the occupied West Bank it has spurred and the lack of festivities has deeply hurt Bethlehem's economy.

How life in the West Bank has become brutal and unpredictable after Oct. 7

By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi

Overnight in the occupied West Bank, a mosque was vandalized and set on fire by Israeli settlers. Attacks against Palestinians there have increased greatly since the Oct. 7 terror attacks. Israel describes the West Bank as one of seven fronts…

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Palestinian lawsuit accuses State Department of giving Israel a pass on military aid and human rights

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denied that his agency has a double standard when it comes to Israel and enforcing a 1997 law barring military support in cases of gross human rights abuses.

UN General Assembly approves resolutions demanding Gaza ceasefire, more aid to Palestinian refugees

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban.

Israeli strikes kill 28 in Gaza hours after UN resolution demanding ceasefire, Palestinian medical officials say

By Associated Press

Palestinian medical officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 people in the Gaza Strip, including seven children and a woman.

Palestinians search for family members who vanished after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza

By Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah El Deeb, Julia Frankel, Associated Press

Dozens of Palestinians are receiving help from an Israeli legal group in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza Strip.