A former senior UN food agency official has alleged he was fired last week for his work highlighting hunger in Gaza, and has launched an appeal against his dismissal. Benjamin Davis said the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had refused to renew his contract as director of its rural transformation and gender equality division because his team had published a brief on hunger in Gaza and held a seminar on the subject last year, and because he taken part in weekly “moment of silence” vigils on FAO grounds for those killed. The seminar on hunger in Gaza last September triggered a complaint from the Israeli mission to the FAO, which also sent a diplomat to take pictures of staff taking part a moment of silence gathering last October, according to a FAO staff report filed at the time. Davis, 62 and a Spanish-American dual citizen, left the FAO last week after 26 years of service. Video of the event shows FAO staff standing and applauding him as he left the Rome headquarters for the last time. “It’s a nice feeling that I’m not alone, that other people are behind me in this,” Davis said. “I was stopped...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Three years after the Hamas gunshots rang out across southern Israel, the world is still living in the October 7 era. In the lead-up to the attacks, Israelis were mostly consumed by their internal politics – specifically the Netanyahu government’s moves to strip power from the nation’s Supreme Court - rather than external threats. The Palestinian cause had faded from international attention. Just days before the assault, US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan described the Middle East region as quieter than it had been in two decades. Then came the rampage. To help foreigners understand the scale of such an atrocity in a tiny country of around 10 million people, Israelis often point out that, in per capita terms, the casualty figure of 1200 people killed was 13 times greater than the fatalities of September 11. Two hundred and fifty people – including young children and grandmothers – were taken hostage into Gaza, sparking a mass protest movement to secure their release. “October 7 was one of those cosmic moments when you realise the world has changed and will...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that Hamas could attempt renewed attacks ahead of Israel’s October 27 election in an effort to influence the vote, saying Israel would thwart such attempts and retaliate with “tremendous force.” Speaking at the opening of a Cabinet meeting on the eve of the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, Netanyahu said Hamas was significantly weakened but could try to use what remained of its forces in the run-up to the election. “Precisely because Hamas is so weak, it will try to challenge us with the remnants of its forces ahead of the elections in an attempt to influence them,” Netanyahu said. “We are prepared for this. First of all, we will thwart such attempts, and in any case we will respond with tremendous force if they make that mistake.” “I say to all our enemies: Look at what we did to you on seven fronts in the War of Revival. Don’t mess with us,” he added. Netanyahu opened his remarks by commemorating those killed in the October 7 massacre and the subsequent war. “On the eve of October 7, we remember with grief and pain our heroes who fell in the War of...

US President Donald Trump’s year-old plan to end the Gaza war has stalled, and Israel and Hamas have been battling in the Gaza Strip for almost three years. The initial phase resulted in a ceasefire on October 10, 2025, and secured the release of the last remaining hostages seized in Hamas’s 2023 attacks on Israel, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel. But other goals, including disarming Hamas, securing Israeli withdrawal - as the IDF currently controls about two-thirds of the strip - and rebuilding Gaza, appear far from reach. The first phase of Trump’s 20-point plan included a suspension of all military operations, Israeli withdrawal from part of the strip, hostage and prisoner releases and a surge in aid. Later phases called for Hamas to disarm and for a Palestinian body to assume governance, overseen by the Trump-led Board of Peace. Israel would gradually withdraw, handing territory to a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF). “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough,” the plan said. Israeli strikes continue despite Gaza ceasefire There has been no return to full-scale military operations, but Israeli strikes have...

(Beirut) – The Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen have sent at least eight people involved in human rights and humanitarian work for criminal prosecution, on espionage-related charges punishable by death, since August 18, 2026, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. They include two United Nations employees, a UN consultant, and five people who worked with international and local civil society organizations on a range of issues, including health, human rights, and humanitarian aid. The Houthis should immediately halt these prosecutions and unconditionally release the eight people whose cases were sent to the prosecution, as well as the scores of other UN staff and civil society workers the Houthis have arbitrarily detained over the past two years. The prosecution is the latest escalation in a crackdown by Houthi authorities on civil society in the part of Yemen they control, with successive waves of arrests of Yemenis targeting UN staff and civil society members since May 31, 2024. The Houthis have arbitrarily detained over 100 such staff and workers, holding them without charge and denying them access to lawyers and their families. Many of the detentions started as enforced disappearances. An enforced disappearance happens when a person is deprived...

Gaza City, Gaza — For three years, Nisreen Touman has gone to bed every night in tears, remembering all she has lost since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023. By the time Nisreen was 34, she had been widowed twice. First, she lost her husband and her two children in June 2024. Then in July 2025, eight months after she remarried, Nisreen lost her second husband while she was pregnant. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war list 2 of 4Israeli settlers attack Jalud village in occupied West Bank pogrom list 3 of 4Palestine weekly: Israeli politicians vie to look toughest before election list 4 of 4Palestinian archaeologists race against time to save Gaza’s heritage end of list Before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Nisreen lived a happy and stable life in her home in Nuseirat, central Gaza, with her husband, Sami, 35, and their two children, Mahmoud and Laith, who were aged five and two at the time of their deaths. “I had a home and a complete family. I got along with my husband, and we were friends,” she says,...

On July 9, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced that parliamentary elections would be held on November 28 in the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and Gaza. If they indeed take place, they will be the first in 20 years. The last, in 2006, was won by Hamas. They were followed by a violent power struggle with Fatah, culminating in Hamas gaining control of Gaza in 2007. Ever since, the continuing popularity of Hamas with the Palestinian people has inhibited Abbas, fearful of losing power, from holding elections. Perhaps it is the Trump peace plan for Gaza, currently being implemented by the Board of Peace and committed to disempowering Hamas, that has encouraged Abbas to try to regain some democratic credibility by approving new elections. In any event, the announcement has brought Mohammad Dahlan once again to the forefront of the Palestinian political arena. Hamas wins Palestinians’ popular vote Dahlan was born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1961. He joined Fatah’s youth movement as a teenager and was repeatedly imprisoned by Israel. Following the Oslo Accords in the 1990s, Abbas appointed him head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service force in Gaza. He became so...

(OSV News) — The pastor of Gaza’s only Catholic parish revealed that Pope Leo XIV sent a personal condolence message following an Israeli missile strike that killed five people, including a Christian mother and daughter. In his daily video update posted to YouTube Oct. 4, Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Parish, read the pope’s “beautiful message” he received earlier, just one day after the missile strike that killed Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud and her daughter, Mary Hafez Michel Najjar. “Good morning, Father Gabriele. Ever since hearing the painful news about Maysa and Mary, I’ve been praying for them, their families, and everyone in Gaza. ‘How long, Lord?’” Pope Leo wrote, echoing a lament from Psalm 13. “Thank you for standing by the parish and so many people who only want to live in peace. God bless, with a warm embrace,” he wrote to Father Gabriele. Mother and daughter laid to rest after St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church funeral According to Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu Agency, the two women were among five people killed in the early hours Oct. 3 in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza City. The deaths were confirmed hours later...

This week marks three years since Hamas’ massacre of October 7 2023, in which some 1,200 people, most of them Israeli civilians, were killed and 251 taken hostage. What followed were two years of devastating war waged by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza, which a UN commission of inquiry, leading genocide scholars and major human rights organisations have concluded amounted to genocide. Much of the strip lies in ruins and more than 74,000 Palestinians are dead, with thousands more believed to remain buried under the rubble. A year ago this week, a US-imposed ceasefire was finally forced on both sides – though mainly on paper. While major IDF assaults have ceased, Israeli attacks in Gaza have continued, in addition to unbridled Jewish settler violence in the West Bank. Despite this, global attention on Gaza has waned. As the US–Israeli war with Iran began dominating the headlines, earlier pledges by many states to help drive the peace process forward have proved once again wanting, even hollow. Now, Israel is preparing for a highly polarised parliamentary election on October 27, which could be consequential for the entire region. If a less extreme government takes office, will the world’s attention to...

The Jewish Museum Vienna and the Austrian-Israeli Society were among the possible targets of an alleged Hamas network that investigators say was preparing attacks in Europe around the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, according to a joint investigation by Germany’s Der Spiegel and Austria’s Der Standard. The investigation, published this week, provides new details about an alleged plot that European authorities disrupted last year, including the possible involvement of senior Hamas official Basem Naim and communications with his son, Mohammed, whom investigators have identified as a central figure in the network. German federal prosecutors last month indicted seven suspected Hamas members, alleging they were involved in acquiring weapons and preparing an attack in Germany or Austria. Prosecutors say the network obtained 13 pistols, a fully automatic rifle and 718 rounds of ammunition as part of preparations for attacks against Israeli representatives, Jews or people considered supportive of Israel. Hamas has denied links to the suspects. tagesschau.de Senior Hamas official’s son at center of investigation According to Der Spiegel and Der Standard, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’ political bureau and a former health minister in Gaza, allegedly discussed plans for attacks in Vienna or...

Investigative journalist and author Gerald Posner released a new paper on Monday examining whether the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel meets the legal standard for genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention. Posner previously authored a legal primer titled Genocide for Dummies, examining whether Israel’s military campaign in Gaza met the genocide threshold under international law. Now, he has turned his focus toward the actions of Hamas on October 7. In his new analysis, titled "The Genocide Case Against Hamas," Posner addressed initial threshold questions regarding duration and non-state entities. He noted that the Genocide Convention does not require a prolonged campaign, explaining that a single act committed with the requisite intent can legally qualify, and that international tribunals and courts have previously established that genocide can be committed by non-state groups and individuals rather than governments alone. To support this, Posner cited several historical examples, including the individual convictions of private individuals like Georges Rutaganda during the Rwandan genocide, the actions of the army of the Republika Srpska, a non-state entity, during the Srebrenica massacre, and the landmark genocide conviction of an ISIS member in Frankfurt for atrocities committed against the Yazidis. The paper outlined the two core components required...

US-Iran war: Tehran rejects military solution; Saudi-led coalition backs Yemen offensive against Houthis Strait of Hormuz tensions send tanker costs soaring as oil prices climb Last updated: October 05, 2026 | 17:41 Gulf News Report Donald TrumpSaudi ArabiaIsraelYemenUS-Israel-Iran warhouthis Iran says the Strait of Hormuz will remain “closed” until the US meets seven conditions, while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there is “no military solution” to the conflict. The Pentagon confirmed that all US B-1 bombers have been withdrawn from RAF Fairford following a security incident nearby. UKMTO also reported that a tanker was struck in the Strait of Hormuz, while another vessel off Yemen reported multiple explosions. Meanwhile, Middle East oil exports excluding Iran rose above pre-war levels last week despite attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. Brent crude topped $102 a barrel and Murban reached $110 as oil prices climbed. Follow all the latest developments here: Highlights SHOW MORE 04:44 PM, 5 October 2026 Iran executes two men linked to anti-govt protests Iran's judiciary said two men were executed on Monday for involvement in the deaths of four police officers during anti-government protests that peaked in January. Authorities accused them...

A group of Hong Kong anti-war activists has staged a protest, reading from a list of 1,400 names of Palestinians said to have been killed in Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire that took effect last October. Activist group HK Anti-war Mobilization held the protest on Sunday in Causeway Bay, one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping districts, which was even more densely packed during China’s weeklong National Day holiday. Tourists and residents alike stopped to take photos of the booth and pick up copies of zines the group had prepared. Members of the group took turns writing down the names of the dead on a whiteboard, erasing the board when it filled up, and continuing down the list. The Sunday protest, involving just four members of the group, marked nearly three years since the latest flare-up in the Middle East conflict was sparked when militant group Hamas crossed the border into Israel on October 7, 2023, taking around 250 hostages and killing over 1,200 people. Since the 2023 escalation, the death toll during Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 74,237, according to the enclave’s health ministry, while 1,454 have been killed and 5,090 injured since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect...

On Thursday last, Palestinians gathered to bury the remains of 105 people killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City three years ago. The victims were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes involving dozens of bombs that levelled a seven-storey building and destroyed several other residential buildings in the Yarmouk Square neighbourhood on the afternoon of October 25th, 2023, local authorities say. Three years after the Gaza war began, and almost a year since a ceasefire came into effect, the extent of devastation and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.1 million people continues to be revealed. The presence of human remains still buried under the rubble remains one of the most urgent humanitarian issues in Gaza. According to estimates cited by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), between 8,000 and 10,000 bodies may still be buried in this way. Newly released satellite images on Google Maps, taken in June this year, show the extent of devastation. Thousands of homes, businesses, places of worship have been wiped away. Any available open space in Gaza City is packed with shacks, tents and huts. The images also show fresh damage to towns such as Beit...

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said overnight Sunday that Ali al-Amoudi, one of the terrorist group’s most senior remaining figures in the Gaza Strip and widely seen as a potential successor to Yahya Sinwar, survived an Israeli attempt to assassinate him over the weekend. “The reports reaching us confirm that Ali al-Amoudi survived the Israeli assassination attempt,” Hamad told Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya. Hamad accused Israel of violating the Gaza ceasefire agreement by continuing its policy of targeted killings. “The Israeli assassinations are putting the Gaza agreement at risk of collapse,” he said. He also placed responsibility on Washington, saying: “The United States is responsible for saving the Gaza agreement and must pressure Israel to stop the assassinations.” On Saturday, the Israeli Air Force struck a building in western Gaza City in an attempt to kill al-Amoudi. Palestinians reported that five people were killed in the strike and others were wounded. In the hours after the attack, Hamas sources were already quoted as expressing doubt that al-Amoudi had been killed. Al-Amoudi is a member of Hamas’ political bureau and one of the group’s most senior figures still in Gaza. He was closely associated with Sinwar and previously served as director...

Looking across the devastated landscape of the Gaza Strip, where surviving generations now carry the permanent physical and psychological scars of war, the ultimate indictment of our era is damning: The world watched the horror unfold in real-time, possessed all the legal, political and institutional mechanisms to stop it, and did nothing. For months, then years, the catastrophe in Gaza tested the fabric of international law, the integrity of global governance and the moral conscience of humanity. From the halls of the United Nations to the high courts of The Hague, what followed was not information failure, but a shameful surrender of political and moral will. Rarely does history deliver such swift and scathing hindsight. Three years after October 7, 2023, the real horror of Gaza is that this barbarity was never hidden; it was broadcast live in high definition to a global audience that watched, debated, proceduralized, and allowed it to continue. Israel’s war on Palestinians continues uninterrupted. Despite having the influence to halt the crisis, major international powers have not intervened, allowing the regime and its colonizers to increase their violence across both Gaza and the occupied West Bank. As time lifts the fog of war, the systemic...

Nearly three years after the October 7 massacre, Israel’s security establishment acknowledges that the Gaza campaign remains far from a decisive outcome. Despite major military gains and a large permanent IDF presence, the basic reality remains unchanged: Hamas still governs the territory. The IDF currently controls about 64% of the Gaza Strip, deploying two divisions across roughly 30 outposts. Security officials say Israel’s defensive posture has been completely transformed since October 7. "If Hamas tries anything, it will encounter IDF forces at the front," a senior security official told Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth. "Our defense no longer begins at the border fence, but inside Gaza. We have stable and very strong control here." Israeli forces are completing an anti-vehicle barrier consisting of a wide trench and an earthen embankment, while drilling into the ground at regular intervals to ensure no cross-border tunnels into Israel have been missed. The work is taking place east of the Yellow Line, which divides areas under IDF control from those controlled by Hamas. Alongside its territorial presence, the IDF continues targeted strikes against Hamas personnel. Security officials said about 70 terrorists, including three brigade commanders, were killed over the past month. "We will act against...

Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces last week published a list of 170 slain Palestinians it claimed were not legitimate media workers but members of "terrorist groups." Palestinian political analyst Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, reviewed every single entry on the list. He called it "the most sloppy shameless fraud possible." Israeli officials and Western supporters have trumpeted the IDF's list as a counter to findings by groups like International Federation of Journalists, which has described Israel's nearly-three-year-old-war in Gaza as “the deadliest period in the history of journalism" and cataloged at least 240 journalists and media workers killed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has found dozens of cases in which it concluded journalists were targeted deliberately because of their reporting and filed multiple complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging war crimes against the press. The database, which the IDF refers to as the "Press Files," says "that claim does not tell the full story" and states that "individuals presented as innocent journalists were, in fact, militants in the military wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other terrorist organizations." The...

[DAMASCUS] A disputed report of secret talks between Syrian officials and Hezbollah representatives in Turkey has raised a broad question: Could border security, weapons smuggling, and armed networks lead Syria’s new government and Hezbollah to establish a limited channel for managing tensions? Such contact would not necessarily signal reconciliation or restore the previous alliance Hezbollah maintained with Bashar Assad’s government. Reuters reported on Oct. 1 that Syrian government officials and Hezbollah representatives held direct talks in Turkey in September aimed at reducing friction between the two sides. The report cited six sources, including two Syrian officials, a US official, and a senior Lebanese security source close to Hezbollah. According to Reuters, Turkish security and intelligence officials helped facilitate the contact, which addressed issues including weapons smuggling and Hezbollah-linked cells inside Syria. Damascus and Ankara, however, categorically denied the account. Syrian authorities said the claims were false and that “no such meeting took place.” The denial was accompanied by a more detailed statement from Syrian presidential media adviser Ahmad Muwaffaq Zaidan, who rejected reports of contacts with Hezbollah and said Damascus’ approach toward Lebanon is based on dealing with the Lebanese state and its official institutions. Zaidan said negotiations with Lebanon...

The head of Yemen's internationally recognised government has announced it will wage an all out war in an effort to take all territory held by the Houthis. It follows an exchange of strikes between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition in recent days. The Iran-backed group said it had struck sites belonging to Saudi national oil company Aramco, in response to what it described as 50 Saudi-led coalition strikes in 12 hours. Saudi Arabia has yet to comment. The Yemeni government's fierce statement was expected after the Houthis' offensive last month, which saw them seize control of the country's coastline, including the vital shipping lane of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. On Sunday, Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi said in a televised address: "Today, I announce the start of military operations to retake the remaining territory of the republic and extend the authority of the state and its institutions across the entire national territory." Yemen's capital, Sanaa, which has been held by the Houthis for more than a decade, has come under sustained attack as government forces try to weaken the group's military capabilities. Attacks on the Houthis have also spread across Yemen, including to the Saada region, the group's northern heartland...

Nida Al Watan, Lebanon, September 15 For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org The story of Ali al-Taher Ridge is not merely about the loss of a military position. It raises a question that Lebanese must confront: Why did Hezbollah refuse to hand the position over to the Lebanese Army, when it knew the alternative could be the Israeli army reaching it? This is no longer simply a political argument. Had Hezbollah transferred the hill to the state, it could have strengthened Lebanon’s position in negotiations with Israel. Instead, developments on the ground culminated in Hezbollah evacuating the position and Israel announcing that it had taken control of it. Worse still, Hezbollah left Ali al-Taher with an Iranian green light. Here lies the contradiction that demands scrutiny: If Hezbollah regards Israel as the foremost threat to Lebanon, why is handing a Lebanese position to the Lebanese Army more difficult than leaving it exposed to the possibility of falling into Israeli hands? Hezbollah can invoke military considerations, arguing that surrendering a strategic position to the army before a comprehensive understanding of its weapons could force it into further concessions. But that argument itself exposes the heart of the...

About a year and a half after she was freed from Hamas captivity following 471 days in the Gaza Strip, former hostage Emily Damari on Saturday released new images documenting the ordeal she endured after her abduction, including surgery at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. The images, recovered during IDF operations in Gaza, show Damari lying on an operating table alongside members of the hospital’s medical staff. “Three years ago at this hour, on Simchat Torah, I was deep, deep inside the Gaza Strip,” Damari wrote in an Instagram post, referring to the Jewish holiday during which the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack took place. “I was kidnapped together with the best friend I could have asked for, Gali Berman, who came to be with me during the most terrifying moments of my life,” she wrote. “The moments when I rediscovered the meaning of the phrase ‘fear of death.’ The photos ... Location: Shifa Hospital, in the hands of the terrorists I will never forget.” Damari was abducted from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a community near the Gaza border that was among the hardest hit in the Oct. 7 attack. She was shot during her abduction and lost two...

Oscar-winning Hollywood star Angelina Jolie posted updated satellite images from the Gaza Strip on Instagram overnight Saturday into Sunday, pointing followers to imagery available through Google Earth and calling attention to the scale of destruction in the territory. “You can now open Google Earth and see what was done to Gaza,” Jolie wrote, saying entire neighborhoods had been destroyed and that homes, schools, universities, hospitals, roads, water and sanitation systems and other infrastructure people relied on for survival had been damaged or destroyed. As of Sunday morning, the post had received about 814,000 likes and more than 23,000 comments. Jolie cited UN satellite analysis saying that as of June 16, 2026, 82% of Gaza’s structures had been damaged, with about two-thirds of the damaged buildings assessed as destroyed. She added that 1.98 million people, or 94% of Gaza’s population, require shelter assistance and essential items as winter approaches. She also said humanitarian aid and shelter materials continue to face restrictions and delays, arguing that the satellite imagery provides an unusually clear view of the physical devastation but cannot convey what it means for civilians to live amid it, what happened to families who were killed or what daily life is...

A decision by the Home Office to block mothers and children in Gaza from joining their families in the UK has been quashed by a court. Families abroad who have had their applications approved to reunite with loved ones in the UK usually have to undergo biometric checks, including fingerprinting and facial images at a visa application centre. But the VAC in Gaza has been closed since October 2023 and it is difficult to get out of the territory. The government has an Unsafe Journeys Policy that offers some flexibility in this kind of situation, but has taken a more strict approach to families – often mothers with very young children – in Gaza who are hoping to reunite with husbands and fathers granted refugee status in the UK. A judge in the immigration court known as the upper tribunal has found the home secretary acted unlawfully in the way the policy was applied to two families and has quashed the decision to block them. Both are young mothers with five children between them aged seven and under, hoping to reunite with their husbands who have been granted refugee status in the UK. Both families are living in dire straits...

Aya al-Shawa, 10, sits in sixth grade at a school in northern Gaza, holding a book she recently received and what is now one of her most treasured possessions. Before it reached Aya’s hands, it had a difficult journey. It once sat on a bookshelf before an Israeli attack demolished the building it was housed in, leaving it buried beneath the rubble. Then one day someone recovered it, cleaned it, sorted its pages and repaired them. The book then found its way to a new reader. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4How can Jordan respond to Israel’s escalation across the West Bank? list 2 of 4Israeli air attack on residential apartment in Gaza kills 5 Palestinians list 3 of 4Funeral held at Gaza church for mother and daughter killed in Gaza strike list 4 of 4Gaza’s Christians mourn mother and daughter killed in Israeli attack end of list Amid the widespread destruction in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, books – one of the most vulnerable of all items – have become a rare commodity. About 98 percent of school buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged, according to UNICEF. With approximately 700,000 children...