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Israel to Gaza City Residents: Get Out Now

Israeli military urges a full evacuation

(Newser) - The Israeli military urged a full evacuation of Gaza City on Tuesday morning, ahead of its planned expanded military operation in the city in northern Gaza, the AP reports. This is the first warning for a full evacuation of the city in the current round of fighting. Also on Tuesday,...

It's a New Move for Those Living in Gaza City

Israeli military tells famine-stricken Palestinians there to move southward to humanitarian zone

(Newser) - Israel's army on Saturday called on Palestinians in Gaza City to move to a humanitarian area it designated in the south as it expanded its operations in preparation for seizing the famine-stricken city, including targeting high-rise buildings. Parts of the city, home to nearly 1 million people, are already...

Belgium Sets Conditions for Recognizing Palestinian State

Move will be tied to release Gaza hostages

(Newser) - Belgium is set to formally recognize a Palestinian state, but with a catch: the move hinges on the release of all Gaza hostages and a future where Hamas is no longer in charge. Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot made the announcement ahead of September's UN General Assembly, aligning Belgium...

Before She Died in Gaza, Journo Took Some Final Photos

Photojournalist Mariam Dagga left behind pictures of hospital where she was killed in Israeli strike

(Newser) - The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later. Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for the AP , was among 22 people, including five reporters, killed on Monday when Israeli...

Israel Declares Gaza City a 'Dangerous Combat Zone'

Military recovers bodies of 2 more hostages

(Newser) - Israel on Friday declared Gaza's largest city a dangerous combat zone and said it was in the "initial stages" of a planned offensive as grief spread over the return of two hostages' bodies. Israel said its military had recovered the bodies of two hostages, including an Israeli man...

UN Staffers Call for Gaza War to Be Labeled Genocide

Poll shows 50% Americans agree

(Newser) - Hundreds of United Nations staffers have urged Volker Turk, the United Nations' top human rights official, to formally label the ongoing conflict in Gaza a genocide. According to a letter seen by Reuters , more than 500 employees from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights argue that...

Israel Says Strikes on Hospital Were Targeting Hamas Camera

Journalists, medics were among at least 20 killed in 'double-tap' attack

(Newser) - Two deadly Israeli strikes on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, were targeting what the military believed was a Hamas surveillance camera, as well as people identified as militants, the Israeli military said Tuesday. The military issued the statement as part of its initial inquiry into...

Israeli Strike on Gaza Hospital Kills 4 Journalists

War has taken an unusually heavy toll on journalists

(Newser) - An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza killed four journalists on Monday, according to health officials. One of them was Mariam Dagga, 33, a visual journalist, who had freelanced for the AP and other outlets since the Gaza war began. In all, 19 people were killed in the...

4 Palestinians Shot, Killed by IDF While Seeking Aid: Witnesses

Witnesses say Israeli forces fired when crowd pushed toward aid site before it opened

(Newser) - Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian aid-seekers traveling Sunday through a military zone south of Gaza City that is regularly used to reach a food distribution point, a hospital and witnesses said. Gaza City is in famine after 22 months of war, while Israel's military moves ahead with a...

Famine Officially Declared in Gaza City

World's leading authority on food crises says it is likely to spread through territory

(Newser) - The world's leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip's largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said...

Sources: Israel Has a New Site in Mind for Palestinians

They tell the AP that the nation is mulling resettling Gazans in war-torn African country of South Sudan

(Newser) - Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas. Six people familiar with...

Hostage Families Want National Walkout in Israel

They want release of hostages, ceasefire to stop 'endless war'

(Newser) - As Israeli leaders push to intensify military action in Gaza, families of hostages are urging the nation to shut down in a bold strike. The Hostage Families Forum, a leading advocacy group, is calling for citizens across Israel to participate in a nationwide walkout on Sunday while pressing the...

Germany Shifts Gears on Israel Amid Bibi's New Plans

Chancellor Friedrich Merz: We'll halt military gear exports to Israel due to plan to take over Gaza City

(Newser) - Germany won't authorize any exports of military equipment to Israel that could be used in Gaza "until further notice," Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday, in a strikingly quick response by one of Israel's strongest international backers to a decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security...

Israel: Military Will 'Take Control of Gaza City'

Announcement marks another escalation of the war

(Newser) - Israel said early Friday that it plans to take over Gaza City in another escalation of its 22-month war with Hamas, the AP reports. The decision, taken after a late-night meeting of top officials, came despite mounting international calls to end the war and protests by many in Israel who...

Netanyahu: Israel Plans to Take Over All of Gaza

Prime minister says it will later be handed to 'Arab forces that will govern it properly'

(Newser) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that to destroy Hamas, Israel intends to take full control of the Gaza Strip and eventually transfer its administration to friendly Arab forces.
  • Asked in an interview with Fox News ahead of a Security Cabinet meeting if Israel would "take control of all
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Trump: I'm Working on Plan to 'Get People Fed' in Gaza

'It is something that should have happened a long time ago,' he says

(Newser) - Earlier this week, President Trump said "there is real starvation in Gaza," contradicting remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Friday, Trump told Axios that he's planning to do more about it. "We want to help people. We want to help them live. We want...

Washington Post Publishes Wrenching List of Gaza Names

'Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children killed, every day for nearly 2 years'

(Newser) - Since the Israel-Hamas war began, Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed at a rate of more than one every hour, the Washington Post reports. The Post has published a list of the names and ages of around 18,500 children killed in the war. Some 953 of them died...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Gaza Crisis 'Genocide'

She's the first Republican lawmaker to use the term for humanitarian crisis

(Newser) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken ranks with fellow Republicans and called the humanitarian crisis in Gaza a genocide. "It's the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis,...

Experts: 'Worst-Case' Famine Scenario Happening Now in Gaza

They predict 'widespread death' without immediate action to get aid in the hands of Gazans

(Newser) - The "worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip," the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert on Tuesday, predicting "widespread death" without immediate action. The alert, still short of a formal famine declaration, follows an outcry over images...

People in Gaza Are 'Walking Corpses'
People in Gaza
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Jul 24, 2025 10:25 AM CDT

People in Gaza Are 'Walking Corpses'

Aid agencies say hunger crisis has reached 'astonishing' new levels

(Newser) - Aid agencies have been warning of a looming hunger crisis in Gaza for months, and a spate of new reports suggests it has fully arrived:
  • This week, the UN's World Food Program said the crisis had reached "new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the
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