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Comedy, courage: The life and death of Gaza’s Mahmoud Shurrab

Mahmoud Shurrab was known for his comedy videos, before turning his platform into a way to help people once war began.

Mahmoud Shurrab

In Gaza, the Nakba is being relived in 2025

Ruwaida Amer’s grandparents lived through the Nakba in 1948. Now, in 2025, she is experiencing another catastrophe.

Palestinians wait to receive food cooked in Gaza

I am not a number, I am a real story from Gaza. Remember it

Ruwaida Amer talks about wrestling with the terror of constant Israeli bombardment and wondering what comes next.

A hijabi woman appearing in the right side of the photo takes a selfie with four little boys

Palestinians return home in Gaza, but without their loved ones

More than 61,700 Palestinians were killed by Israel in the Gaza war. Now, their family members are returning home.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza since the beginning of the ceasefire last month [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

‘Broken’: Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza

As Israel continues its relentless bombardment of Gaza, cases of domestic violence have rocketed.

Palestinian women comfort each other at a funeral

‘Stripped of our human dignity’: What it means to be hungry in Gaza

Al Jazeera contributor describes what it’s like to starve alongside her family under Israel’s relentless bombardment.

FILE - Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Gaza parents’ heartbreak as children’s clothes, shoes fall to pieces

Children are underdressed and exposed to the elements a year into Israel’s war on Gaza.

A child's feet in tattered shoes because his parents cannot find shoes or clothes for him in Gaza as Israel bombs civilians there

Back to school – but not for the 625,000 students of Gaza

A teacher in Gaza reflects on how the first day of school used to bring excitement to students, parents and teachers.

Palestinian children lift placards during a protest calling for an end of the Gaza conflict and a return to school ahead of the new academic year, next to a damaged school building in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 28, 2024.

‘In this war, there is no choice but displacement’

My family and I now live among debris in a burnt apartment in the refugee camp we fled to many times when I was a child.

[Screengrab/Courtesy of Ruwaida Amer]

Alaa’s sad Mother’s Day after Israel’s war on Gaza killed her children

A mother and poet finds herself lost for words to process the loss of her four children this Mother’s Day.

Alaa el-Qatrawi with Yamen and her twins Orchid and Kenan