Gaza

For Palestinians returning to Gaza, a bittersweet reunion

Palestinian mother of three, Eatedal Rayyan, 29, sits and looks out from a window of a tent set up inside her war-damaged home, following her return from medical treatment in Egypt, after nearly two years away, in northern Gaza Strip, February 6, 2026. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

UAE plans compound for Palestinians in Israeli-held south Gaza, map shows

TOPSHOT - This picture taken from a position at Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows destroyed buildings in the besieged Palestinian territory on February 5, 2026. The October 7, 2023, Hamas attack just across the Israel-Gaza Strip border which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people on the Israeli side, triggered the Gaza war in which over 71,800 Palestinians have been killed and thousands of buildings destroyed. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Activists plan new, bigger flotilla to try to bring aid to Gaza

A flotilla of humanitarian boats departing from Sicily on Sept 27, 2025.

Donors reluctant to fund US-led Gaza plan as Hamas disarmament push stalls: Sources

One senior European diplomat said that no European or Western country had yet committed funds to Gaza's recontstruction.

Israeli strikes kill 21 in Gaza, health officials say

A Palestinian patient and her relatives head back home after being informed by officials that their travel through the Rafah border crossing was postponed, in Khan Younis, on Feb 4, 2026.

Palestinian women describe ‘journey of horror’ crossing back into Gaza

Huda Abu Abed, 56, cries as she is embraced by her sister inside a tent after returning to Gaza through the Rafah crossing, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 3, 2026. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Tearful Gazans finally reunite after limited Rafah reopening

Palestinians coming from the Rafah crossing from Egypt arrive at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2026. Sick and wounded Gazans began crossing into Egypt to seek medical treatment after Israel permitted a limited reopening of the Palestinian territory's Rafah border post. Around 150 people were due to leave the territory, and 50 to enter it, according to Egyptian officials, more than 20 months after Israeli forces fighting in Gaza closed the crossing.

WHO says first five patients evacuated via Gaza’s Rafah crossing

A Palestinian man waves from a window as war-wounded people and patients, accompanied by relatives, get ready to leave Gaza for treatment abroad through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, after it was opened by Israel on Monday for a limited number of people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 3, 2026.

What to know about Gaza's Rafah border crossing

Egyptian ambulances line up to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border from the Egyptian side, following the first day Israel reopened the border between Gaza and Egypt on Monday for people on foot, in Rafah, Egypt, February 2, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer

US envoy Witkoff to visit Israel, meet Netanyahu, Israeli officials say

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. REUTERS/Romina Amato

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