Hundreds of thousands facing hunger in Gaza as food runs out

The World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out under Israel&s nearly eight-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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At least 50 Palestinians killed in series of Israeli air strikes across Gaza Strip

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 50 people, many of them women and children, the territory&s health ministry said yesterday.

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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill displaced families sheltering at police station and school

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory's Hamas-run Health Ministry.

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Israeli airstrike kills 10 people at Gaza school sheltering displaced families

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza killed 10 people yesterday, an attack that Israel said targeted militants operating from within the complex.

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Mediators work on plan for long-term truce as Israeli strike on Gaza kills 23

Arab mediators are working on a proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war that would include a five- to seven-year truce and the release of all remaining hostages, officials said on Wednesday.

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Irish-Palestinian man implores Taoiseach to intervene as red tape leaves his family stranded in Gaza

An Irish-born Palestinian man hopes Taoiseach Micheál Martin will ask the Palestinian president to let his father leave Gaza after a damaged passport kept him there.

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