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Gaza: Rains add misery to humanitarian catastrophe
With most homes damaged or destroyed by the war, Gazans are facing worsening humanitarian conditions due to heavy rain.
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Gaza: Heavy rain inundates thousands of tents
Heavy rainfall has flooded thousands of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including in Deir al-Balah. Residents say overflowing sewage has mixed with the floodwater, further worsening already dire living conditions. Families are struggling to salvage their belongings, building makeshift earthen barriers and trying to drain the water by hand. Many have seen essential items soaked and rendered unusable, adding to the hardship faced by those already displaced.
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Floods in Gaza leave tens of thousands without shelter
Civil Defence reports over 1,500 emergency calls as thousands of tents and shelters destroyed after heavy rains.
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Photos: Heavy rains leave tens of thousands without shelter in Gaza
Heavy rain floods tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli restrictions on aid hamper response.
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Gaza under water: displaced people try to save the little left of their flooded shops
After a night of intense storms in the Gaza Strip, thousands of displaced persons woke up with their flooded tents. Whole families used balds to remove the accumulated water and raised improvised barriers of sand and mud to try to protect their shelters from new rains.
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Gaza wedding festival sees 250 couples married at the same time
A mass wedding for Palestinian brides and grooms has taken place in the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza.
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Gaza: Diluvian rains deprive thousands of displaced people of shelter
Diluvian rains in the Gaza Strip led to the flooding of tens of thousands of tents of displaced persons, depriving them of shelter, and causing several injuries, said the local authorities on Saturday.
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Gaza displacement camps collapse under rainwater
Rainwater is inundating displacement camps across Gaza as makeshift shelters collapse. Al Jazeera’s Nour Khaled reports.
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Heavy rains flood displacement camps across Gaza
Heavy rains and strong winds have flooded and damaged displacement tents across Gaza.
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Buildings damaged in Israeli bombings risk collapse as rain inundates Gaza
Floods have swept through Gaza after heavy rain, endangering families and putting war-damaged buildings at risk.
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Palestinian couples tie the knot in mass wedding in Gaza
The event brought 250 couples together to celebrate love and new beginnings despite Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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An organization of Israeli extremist settlers established an outpost a few kilometres from Gaza
For the past three weeks, the extremist settlement movement Nachala has set up a temporary camp in the Simhoni Forest, three kilometres from the Gaza Strip, with the aim of entering the Palestinian enclave. Their fate could depend on the next government to be formed following the 27 October parliamentary elections.
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The hunger in Gaza more than a year after the ceasefire: "Israeli siege engineering"
The lack of international funds made it necessary to reduce the food aid received by families. The bread is billed to the count after Egypt sent more than 1,897 tons of flour and food baskets, but the relief is temporary
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Building wind turbines out of parts found in Gaza’s rubble
Palestinians in Gaza have made wind turbines to generate electricity, using scraps found in the rubble.
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Gaza turns discarded cooking pots into seawalls
As winter approaches, Palestinians in Gaza are turning damaged cooking pots into makeshift seawalls to avoid flooding.
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Midterms 2026: The pro-Israeli consensus of American opinion cracks
The victory of Progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the mid-term elections, after a campaign marked by his criticism of Israel, illustrates the erosion of American support for the Hebrew state since the wars in Gaza and Iran. Between the cost of living associated with tensions in the Middle East and the isolationist aspirations on the right, the historical alignment of the United States with the Israeli government also faltered.
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Gaza holds final of tournament honouring more than 1,000 slain athletes
The final of Gaza’s ‘Thousand Martyrs’ Cup marks the return of organised football after nearly three years of war.
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‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
Former army surgeon and Gaza volunteer Hamawy is the first Muslim American elected to the US Congress from New Jersey.
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Jerusalem Daily: Settler pogroms in Hebron
Israel’s president consults party leaders on forming a government, as Israeli forces attack Palestinians in Gaza.