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Makeshift Gaza university offers chance to resurrect academic studies

Solar-powered halls create academic lifelines for Gaza students battling war’s aftermath and scarce resources.

Mariam Nasr, 20. A first-year nursing student. (Courtesy of Scholars Without Borders team)

Amid ruins, Palestinians struggle to preserve Gaza’s historic markets

For centuries, the Grain Market has been Khan Younis’s shopping hub, but it has stood largely empty since Israel’s war.

A view shows the partially destroyed Barquq Castle

Quran echoes loudly as Palestinian reciters gather in Gaza

Quran memorisers in Gaza overcome devastation from war, reciting the holy book as a source of hope and strength.

The Quran

Palestinians risk life and limb to fish in Gaza’s Israeli-controlled sea

Gaza’s fishing industry collapses under Israeli blockade, leaving fishermen risking their lives for minimal catches.

Fishing boats destroyed by the Israeli forces, now used as tents supporters.

It is Israel, not Gaza, that needs stabilisation

Global powers are trying to stabilise Gaza with the help of its tormentor.

KIRYAT GAT, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 20: U.S. Army personnel, IDF personnel and others international officials monitor screens displaying maps and imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) on November 20, 2025 in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The American-led military facility 13 miles north of the Gaza Strip is where U.S. and Israeli soldiers, along with foreign diplomats and NGO representatives, are monitoring the ceasefire in Gaza and discussing the future of the Palestinian territory. Critics have noted the lack of formal Palestinian representation in the CMCC. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

My phone succumbed to its wounds in Gaza

Ahmed Al-Najjar writes about the day his phone stopped working, and why that means so much more than it seems.

The writer's hand holding his glitching phone, with an illegibly fuzzy screen.

Cheer up, people of Gaza! You’ll get killed on a full stomach

The new US humanitarian plan will ‘save us’, just like the previous ones did.

A photo of a red cup of tea and a packaged biscuit from WFP on a table