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Palestinian paramedics transport the body of a Palestinian to the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after an Israeli air strike on the city of Deir Al-Balah. Ali Hamad/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa A new advance by Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis has resulted in dozens of Palestinian casualties, including women and children, medics said on Monday. The army attacked in the east of the city, witnesses said. At least 39 Palestinians were killed and 80 more were injured, according to hospital staff in...

After nine months of conflict, relief groups describe Gaza as one of the most dangerous places to operate in the world, even as the need there grows. Famine is looming, according to a U.N.-backed assessment, and Israel’s Health Ministry said Friday that it has detected a strain of the polio virus in Gaza’s sewage as a sanitation crisis mounts. Zeer said she could hear the sound of intense shelling and airstrikes close by. “We were listening to the sounds of the screams of people as they fled,” she said. “Whenever...

Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing from the east of Khan Younis under heavy Israeli attacks. They are running out of the city on foot and quickly while most of them don’t know where to go. These people are already displaced and have moved more than once. The displacement of people – some say tens of thousands – is trending with video images. The Israeli army says they are moving into the already destroyed city to look for Palestinian armed operatives who are nowhere to be found. This is a surprise...

The City Council approved plans to build more than 220 apartments near Garden of the Gods Road, about three years after a previous council denied another apartment project across the street because they concluded it could make emergency evacuations more dangerous.

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Following numerous rocket attacks on southern Israel in recent weeks from the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip, the IDF says it is adjusting the zone to target Hamas. The eastern portion of the zone, in the Khan Younis area, is to be evacuated and the IDF says that “remaining in this area has become dangerous.” It says that the adjustment to the zone is being carried out “in accordance with precise intelligence indicating that Hamas has embedded terror infrastructure” in the humanitarian zone. According to the IDF, the...