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Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians living in the territory and decimated the territorys 365 square kilometers (140 square miles). Out of every 10 people, one has been killed or injured in an Israeli strike. Nine are displaced. At least three have not eaten for days. Out of every 100 children, four have lost either one or both parents. Out of every 10 buildings that stood in Gaza prewar, eight are either damaged or flattened. Out of every 10 homes, nine are wrecked. Out of every 10 acres of cropland, eight are razed (more than three out of every four hectares). The war began when Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive on the strip to annihilate Hamas and free the hostages. Heres a closer look at the devastation. Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Sunday, June 1, 2025.
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A Palestinian man carries a wounded child after an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City, Friday, June 27, 2025.
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Palestinians mourn their relatives killed from an Israeli army bombardment of Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, Saturday, June 21, 2025.
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Fadi Sobh puts his children to bed inside their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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Naima Abu Ful poses for a photo with her 2-year-old malnourished child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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An aircraft airdrops humanitarian aid over northern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 28, 2025.
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A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get donated food at a distribution center in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, April 7, 2025.
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Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid, unloaded from a World Food Program convoy in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025.
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Palestinians inspect a site used as a shelter for displaced residents that was hit by Israeli military strike, in Gaza City, on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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Raed Salem Aslyieh, left, from Jabaliya, hugs his relatives after the death of his son, Ahmed Raed Aslyieh, 18, who succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that killed eight other family members four months earlier, worsened by a lack of proper treatment due to medicine shortages, at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025.
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Palestinians Ali Marouf and his mother Aisha cook on fire on the roof of their destroyed house by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 17, 2025.
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Residents climb atop a monument surrounded by Congolese flags after a rally organized by civil society groups in support of the M23 movement and against the central Congolese government in Bukavu on February 22, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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A man rides in the trunk of a taxi carrying boxes of beverages past a vandalized vehicle of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) following clashes in Bukavu on February 18, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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A member of the M23 armed group walks through a pool of water as residents clean the streets during a special cleaning exercise and public meeting conducted by the M23 movement following the take over of the city at the Place de lIndependance in Bukavu on February 20, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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Jolie Mataniko (R) lies on a hospital bed nursing wounds on her face next to other injured women following clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the General Provincial Hospital in Bukavu on February 19, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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Members of the M23 armed group monitor the area while guarding senior members of the group during a special cleaning exercise and public meeting conducted by the M23 movement following the takeover of the city at the Place de lIndpendance in Bukavu on February 20, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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Residents observe from a distance as members of the Congolese Red Cross conduct a mass burial for victims of the clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Musigiko cemetery in Bukavu on February 20, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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Members of the Congolese Red Cross carry body bags containing human remains during a mass burial for victims of the clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Musigiko cemetery in Bukavu on February 20, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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A member of the M23 movement monitors the area as Congolese police officers stand in formation during an enrollment of civilians, police officers, and former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) who allegedly decided to join the M23 movement voluntarily in Bukavu on February 22, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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A member of the Congolese Red Cross sprays disinfectant on body bags containing human remains during a mass burial for victims of the clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Musigiko cemetery in Bukavu on February 20, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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A worker carries sacks of aid on his back as Congolese refugees gather waiting for a chance to receive assistance during a food distribution operation at the Musenyi refugee site in Giharo, on May 7, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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Congolese refugees move around rows of tents as a storm approaches at the Musenyi refugee site in Giharo, on May 7, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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A young Congolese refugee plays on a swing under heavy rain as refugees await relocation at the Cishemere Transit Center near Buganda, on May 6, 2025. In February 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed rebel group launched a rapid offensive and took control of Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital, after clashes with Congolese forces. Looting and heavy shelling in parts of the city left streets empty, morgues and hospitals overwhelmed, and triggered mass displacement. As a result, neighbouring Burundi received some 10,000 refugees within three days and more than 70,000 by April, the largest influx the country has seen in decades.
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THE DISAPPEARED: SYRIAS SAD SEARCH Desperate family members compare family photos to barely recognizable printouts of corpses taped to hospital walls as they search for disappeared loved ones at the Moujtahed hospital morgue among bodies of prisoners recovered from the notorious Sednaya prison and other military intelligence branch jails that showed signs of torture and malnutrition after the fall of the brutal Assad regime in Damascus Syria on December 31, 2024. A rebel offensive ousted President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates more than 100,000 prisoners died and now most families will be denied the closure of a proper burial with countless bodies disposed of or dumped in mass graves. My heart is burning, wept Warda Alkhodor who has two missing sons. She holds a light as men feverishly dig, hoping to find secret rooms underground. There are no more youth in Syria. She cried. They took them all. Faten Masalmeh searches for clues etched on dark cell walls about her missing brother. Waleed Shwaib weeps for his son Sami that he buried after finding him at the morgue. I see him in my dreams, he says, choking on grief. He had a heart attack upon hearing his son was dead. He speaks of Assad, He is worse than Hitler We wish God will punish him and his mafias. Ushers serve tea at a memorial service for 101 prisoners from one neighborhood that perished. Samira Uthman Kaka is embraced by family at home as she holds a photo of her son Bassam Alrefaiy. Granddaughter Lia kisses his image and constantly asks when her uncle is coming home. He was arrested while peacefully protesting. They have not found his body but finally accepted the long futile search is over. They speak of the future with yearning faith. We hope for a new chapter in the coming days, says Samira as Lia sings a song of liberation. In sha' Allah (God willing) CAMERA DATE ON FILE IS WRONG CORRECT IS December 31, 2024
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Faten Masalmeh searches for clues about her brother Tareq Masalmeh, missing since 2013, at the notorious Sednaya prison where countless men disappeared amid accounts of torture during the brutal Assad regime in Damascus Syria on December 17, 2024. She believed prisoners communicated via water pipes when soldiers cut off water at night and she listens now at each cell for any sound, holding onto hope. She explains how a Syrian army sniper shot her husband at their home and he bled to death. They kept shooting at the house from all direction to prevent anyone from taking him to hospital. Layers of sorrow haunt families.
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Families wait at the notorious Sednaya prison where countless men disappeared amid accounts of torture during a brutal regime in Damascus Syria on December 17, 2024. Some spent days pouring over documents that were not destroyed as rescue groups seeking signs of life dug holes looking for secret rooms that ultimately were not found.
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Faten Masalmeh searches for clues in etchings on walls about her brother Tareq Masalmeh, missing since 2013, at the notorious Sednaya prison where countless men disappeared amid accounts of torture during the brutal Assad regime in Damascus Syria on December 17, 2024. She believed prisoners communicated via water pipes when soldiers cut off water at night and she listens now at each cell for any sound, holding onto hope. She remembers how a Syrian army sniper shot her husband at their home and he bled to death. They kept shooting from all directions to prevent anyone from taking him to hospital. Many bodies were said to be pressed on a machine and dumped in mass graves. Most loved ones will not find the peace and closure that a proper burial can bring.
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Family members desperately look for clues at the Syrian Military Intelligence Palestine Branch 235 that was a jail for political prisoners during a brutal regime where countless men disappeared amid accounts of torture in Damascus Syria on December 22, 2024.
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Warda Alkhodor from Aleppo holds a flashlight as men feverishly dig, hoping to find secret rooms underground as desperate family members search for information about their disappeared loved ones at the notorious Sednaya prison in Damascus Syria on December 17, 2024. My heart is burning, wept Warda, who has two missing sons. Dont tell me hes not here, she cried. There are no more youth in Syria. They took them all. Nothing was found.
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My heart is burning, wept Warda Alkhodor from Aleppo who has two missing sons as her daughter Mariam and other desperate family members search for their disappeared loved ones at the Moujtahed Hospital morgue among bodies recovered from Sednaya prison in Damascus Syria on December 16, 2024. There are no more youth in Syria, she stated. They took them all, she cried.
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Desperate family members walk over decomposing bodies as they search for their disappeared loved ones at the Moujtahed Hospital morgue among bodies recovered from Sednaya prison that showed signs of torture and malnutrition in Damascus Syria on December 16, 2024.
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Waleed Shwaib, 70 years old, weeps pitifully for the son Sami that he buried recently after finding him at the Moujtahed Hospital morgue among bodies that were recovered from prisons after the fall of Assad, at his home in Damascus Syria on December 28, 2024. I just cant believe he died, he says. I see him in my dreams. Sometimes he calls for me, calls my name He is beloved. May God have mercy on him. He is disabled and living amid the debris of war with assistance from his other two sons. He was not able to attend the funeral but at least feels some peace knowing there was a proper burial - the closure that will be denied to so very many other desperate families. They never knew where he was detained until they saw Branch 227 written on his body bag. He had paid a lot of money but was never allowed visitation. He had a heart attack when he heard his son was dead. He speaks of Assad, He is worse than Hitler We wish God will punish him and his mafias.
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A memorial service is held at Aldemashqiah Funeral Home for 13 prisoners that families learned had died at the notorious Sednaya prison in Damascus Syria on December 27, 2024. They said a worker at Sednaya took photos of all the prisoners who perished, and they believe he was later caught and executed. After the fall of the Assad regime, the photos were published on Facebook and it is how many learned of the death of their loved ones. Mourner, Saied Mardini, said, Some people say that Hitler is the worst person that ever lived. Bashar al-Assad is far more evil than Hitler himself, he's the source of all of the evil in the world He never stopped committing crimes, seems like it didn't matter to him.
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A memorial service is held at Aldemashqiah Funeral Home for 101 prisoners from one neighborhood that families learned had died at the notorious Sednaya prison and other branch jails in Damascus Syria on December 31, 2024. (CAMERA DATE IS WRONG - CORRECT IS December 31, 2024)
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Samira Uthman Kaka is embraced by family as she holds a photo of her son Bassam Alrefaiy who was a prisoner, at their home in Damascus Syria on December 31, 2024. Her 4-year-old granddaughter Lia Rawas kisses his image and constantly asks when her uncle is coming home. She says the only words she knows in English I love you. On left is her husband Bassam AtAllah Alrefaiy. Right is her daughter Huda Bassam Alrefaiy. Samira doesnt feel peace because she didnt find him, but has finally accepted he is gone and their long futile search is over. Where is his body? Where is his body? she pleads. All she has left is this photo. I remember his teeth, like pearls. Now no teeth are showing in the photo. They learned he had died at the notorious Sednaya prison. He was missing since February 2013 at 22 years old and they havent seen him since he was arrested while peacefully protesting. They said a worker at Sednaya took photos of all the prisoners who perished, and they believe he was later caught and executed. After the fall of the regime, the photos were published on Facebook and it is how they learned of his death. They speak of the future with yearning faith. When Assad fell, we didnt believe it. But its not a dream, it is true! Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, says Samira as little Lia sings a song of liberation. We hope for a new chapter in the coming days. In sha' Allah (God willing)
Carol Guzy
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This series chronicles the ongoing war in Ukraine against Russia. An explosion is seen after a Russian air strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025.
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Rescue workers carry an injured woman on a stretcher out of a house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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Friends of Danylo Hudya, 17, who was killed in a Russian strike, gather together at the remains of a house in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, April 25, 2025.
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The mothers of Danylo Nikittskyi, 15, left, and Alina Kutsenko, 15, who were killed by a Russian missile, grieve as they pay their final respects during a funeral ceremony in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 7, 2025.
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Ihor Lohvynchuk, a Ukrainian marine soldier of 36th brigade, hugs his cousin after returning from captivity in a POW exchange in Ukraine, on Saturday, April. 19, 2025.
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People show photos of their missed relatives to Ukrainian soldiers during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2025.
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Rescue workers clear the rubble at a house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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Red Cross volunteers evacuate an injured woman from a multi-storey residential house destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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A makeshift target with a portrait of Vladimir Putin is seen at the stabilisation point in Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025.
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A woman cries on the playground where a Russian rocket killed 20 people, including 9 children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Wednesday April 9, 2025.
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A family sleeps on the platform of a metro station as they take cover during a Russian attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, April 13, 2025.
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This series chronicles the ongoing war against Israel and Hamas and its toll on the people of Gaza. Israel and Hamas are currently in the midst of a ceasefire deal being brokered by the United States. A Palestinian carries the body of a man killed while trying to receive aid near a distribution center operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Netzarim, in the Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025.
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Palestinian Tamim Marouf, 6, sits inside his family's tent alongside his sister Hala, 10, and his brother Malek, 4, at a camp for internally displaced Palestinians on the beachfront in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024.
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Bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, wrapped in plastic bags, lie on the ground at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 13, 2025.
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Fatima Rehan carries her 2-year-old son Mohammed as she and other members of the Rehan family search amid the rubble of their home destroyed by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive against Hamas in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
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Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City, by foot and vehicles, carrying their belongings along the coastal road in Nuseirat toward the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025.
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Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025.
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A Palestinian girl struggles to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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Sara Al-Nouri mourns over the body of her 13-year-old sister, Sama, who was among 10 children and five adults killed by an Israeli strike outside a medical clinic while they were waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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Areej al Qadi shows the dress of her daughter Laila at her tent in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday Nov. 21, 2024. Seven-year-old Hamza, his five-year-old brother Abdelaziz, and his four-year-old sister Laila Hassan were among 9 people killed by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis.
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Mohammed Sahloul, 17, is greeted by his sister Nidaa after being released from an Israeli prison in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.
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Yehia al-Batran grieves as he holds the body of his 20-day-old son Jomaa, who died from hypothermia, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Jomaa's twin brother, Ali, remains in intensive care, as local health officials report at least three other infant deaths from the cold in recent weeks.
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A displaced man walks past a Palestinian flag placed over the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages.
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