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Gaza health system on the brink: Critical shortages, rising death toll
Al Mayadeen
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August 19, 2025
Gaza's severe health crisis reaches extremes with critical lab shortages, rising famine deaths, and over 62,000 killed amid the unabated Israeli aggression. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has issued a stark warning regarding the...
Gaza Health Ministry: 3 deaths due to famine in past 24 hours
Yemen News Agency SABA
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Gaza - Saba: The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip recorded three deaths among adults due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours. In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) on Tuesday, the ministry indicated...
Palestinians face Israeli gunfire for flour in north Gaza
Jefferson Public Radio - Oregon
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August 19, 2025
Updated August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM PDT ZIKIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip — Thousands of men, women and children are covered in dust. Exhausted and hungry, many are carrying large sacks of white flour over their shoulders. This flour has become Gaza's...
Gaza truce hopes reignite: Hamas accepts ceasefire deal, hostage exchange eyed
The Week
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Hamas has informed mediators that it is ready to accept the latest ceasefire proposal for Gaza and resume negotiations aimed at ending the war. The announcement came after discussions between Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman...
Gaza's health ministry says 58 Gazans killed by IDF in past 24 hours
Haaretz
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August 19, 2025
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 58 Palestinians were killed by Israel, with another two pulled from under rubble, and 343 were wounded in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 62,064 since October 7.
Palestine was the problem with TikTok
The Verge
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August 19, 2025
In the last month, the war in Gaza has become an inescapable facet of the public consciousness as a new surge of images of Palestinian children — their faces impossibly sunken, their limbs reduced to skin and bone — flooded the internet. As the...
Irish Red Crescent worker tells of teens shot in back walking away from Gaza aid centre
Irish Independent
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More than 1,778 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,894 wounded under these circumstances since late May, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. International aid agencies say...
Palestinian Basketball Player Martyred While Seeking Aid for His Children in Gaza
Yemen News Agency SABA
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Palestinian Basketball Player Martyred While Seeking Aid for His Children in Gaza Gaza – Saba: Former Palestinian national basketball team player and one of Gaza’s most prominent basketball stars, Mohammed Shaalan (40 years old), was martyred on...
Starvation by Design: How Israel Turned Gaza's Siege Into Famine
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
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August 19, 2025
Parents searching for milk for their infants find it stacked in shops that they cannot afford. Israel also blocked humanitarian organizations and U.N. agencies from distributing aid through fair and independent mechanisms that would ensure it...
Israel increases murderous airstrikes on Gaza City
The News Line
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August 19, 2025
DESPITE Hamas delivering a positive response to the latest ceasefire proposal hammered out by Qatar and Egypt on Monday, Israel increased its murderous air strikes across Gaza yesterday. Israel launched a deadly barrage of air strikes on densely...
Mediators awaiting Israel’s response to Gaza ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas: Qatar
Middle East Monitor
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August 19, 2025
Mediators are awaiting Israel’s response after Hamas accepted a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner swap proposal, Qatar said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. In a news briefing in Doha, Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari called Hamas’ response to the...
In Occupied Palestine – 17 August 2025
The Daily Blog
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August 19, 2025
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land 08:00, 17 August 2025 until 08:00, 18 August 2025 Gaza Strip Sanction Israel Merciless blitz on starving Gaza — growing numbers of dead and...
Mothers in Gaza Between Bombardment & Hunger: Unbearable Suffering
Yemen News Agency SABA
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Gaza – Saba: Amidst the atmosphere of war and the stifling blockade, mothers in Gaza struggle to survive and provide for their children, under humanitarian conditions described by relief organizations as "unbearable." Randa, a displaced mother,...
What does Israel’s starvation of Gaza do to the human body?
The Electronic Intifada
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August 19, 2025
Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 19 August 2025 Israel continues to implement its policy of forced starvation on Palestinians, killing hundreds of children, men and women and plunging the entire population into catastrophic...
Qatar pide cese del fuego en Franja de Gaza tras “respuesta positiva” de Hamás
Los Angeles Times
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August 20, 2025
JERUSALÉN — Qatar, un mediador clave en las negociaciones para el término de la guerra de Israel en la Franja de Gaza, destacó el martes la urgencia de negociar un cese del fuego en el territorio palestino después de que Hamás mostró una...
Qatar urges ceasefire as aid groups warn of famine in Gaza
WICD - Illinois
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JERUSALEM (TNND) — A mediator stressed the importance of brokering a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a ceasefire deal made by Arab countries. Israel has yet to comment on the deal as the...
Israel has killed nearly 19,000 children in Gaza war as strikes intensify
St. Kitts Gazette
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August 19, 2025
At least 18,885 children are among the more than 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza nearly two years ago, Gaza’s Government Media Office has said. The staggering, grim toll comes as the UN agency for...
‘Colossal level of destruction’ as Israel ethnically cleanses Gaza City neighborhoods
The Real News Network
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August 19, 2025
Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News. This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 19, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Israeli forces continued bombing, shelling, and shooting civilians...
Israel Approves Gaza City Occupation Plan Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
The Organization for World Peace
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August 19, 2025
Israel’s security cabinet has approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza City, a decision that significantly escalates the nearly two-year war. The phased offensive, set to begin by October 7, the anniversary of Hamas’s 2023...
UAE launches first 'Youth Social Mission' to support Palestinians
Gulf Today
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August 19, 2025
The Federal Youth Authority has announced the launch of the first group of participants in the ‘Youth Social Missions Programme,’ within the ‘Humanity Track,’ to take part in Operation Chivalrous Knight 3 in Al Arish, Egypt, as part of the UAE’s...