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Palestinians wait hoping to be given the permission to cross into Egypt at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2014 in Rafah. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
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Palestinian students play in a classroom at a United Nations school in Gaza City on September 14, 2014 on the first day of the new school year. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
Gaza children return to school after war
Gaza City, AP—Some half a million Gaza children made a delayed return to school on Sunday, after a devastating 50-day war with Israel that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged hundreds of school buildings. Gaza Education Ministry official Ziad Thabet said...Caption:
A plume of smoke rises from buildings after an Israeli airstrike in the eastern part of Gaza City on August 22, 2014. (AFP Photo/Roberto Schmidt)
Opinion: No Winners in Gaza
It seems that Arabs’ habit of claiming disasters as victories is still alive and kicking. This habit has brought many tragedies upon the region and its people, who continue to pay the price. Yet admitting one’s defeat or mistakes, no matter how bitter they are, is the...Caption:
A Palestinian woman holds her daughter as she waits to receive food supplies from a United Nations food distribution center in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 19, 2014. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
Opinion: Gaza’s Hostages
The Gaza truce negotiations that aim to end the current and third war since Hamas took over the enclave in 2007, differ from previous ones in terms of their nature, interests and the conflicting objectives of all the visible and invisible players involved. One...Caption:
Israeli security officers make their ways past buring tires as at least 10,000 Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip clash with Israeli soldiers and border police at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, on 25 July 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)