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‘No place is safe’: families flee Gaza City as Israel vows to press on with offensive
ByAngelique Chrisafis and agencies August 24, 2025August 24, 2025

Others refuse to leave as aircraft and tanks bomb outskirts of city where about half of Gaza’s 2m people now liveIsraeli aircraft and tanks have pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City, destroying buildings and homes, as Israeli leaders…

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Declaration of famine in Gaza lays bare Israel’s disregard for humanitarian duty
ByPeter Beaumont August 24, 2025

The IPC’s findings that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are starving should mark an urgent turning point in this warThe declaration on Friday of widespread famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) should mark a turnin…

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Declaration of famine in Gaza lays bare Israel’s disregard for humanitarian duty
ByPeter Beaumont August 24, 2025

The IPC’s findings that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are starving should mark an urgent turning point in this warThe declaration on Friday of widespread famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) should mark a turnin…

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Dutch foreign minister quits over failure to secure sanctions against Israel
ByClea Skopeliti August 23, 2025

Caspar Veldkamp resigns after cabinet reaches deadlock on adopting harsher measures over situation in GazaMiddle East crisis live: latest updatesThe Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp, has resigned after a cabinet meeting failed to secure sanction…

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More Palestinians die of starvation as famine spreads in Gaza – as it happened
ByCaolán Magee August 23, 2025August 23, 2025

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an urgent scale-up of evacuations from Gaza, warning that more than 15,600 patients remain in need of specialised care.In a post…

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‘Very sick and very tired’: the reality of famine for Gaza’s most vulnerable
ByMalak A Tantesh in Gaza City and Jason Burke August 23, 2025

Catastrophic hunger caused by aid blockade is most keenly felt by elderly people, the young and the destituteIn the overcrowded, rubble strewn streets of Gaza City, there was little surprise at the announcement that UN-backed experts believed the scene…

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‘Very sick and very tired’: the reality of famine for Gaza’s most vulnerable
ByMalak A Tantesh in Gaza City and Jason Burke August 23, 2025

Catastrophic hunger caused by aid blockade is most keenly felt by elderly people, the young and the destituteIn the overcrowded, rubble strewn streets of Gaza City, there was little surprise at the announcement that UN-backed experts believed the scene…

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‘We didn’t understand the goals of the war’: Israel’s inflated Hamas death toll shows lack of strategy in Gaza
ByEmma Graham-Harrison and Yuval Abraham in Jerusalem August 22, 2025

‘War dashboard’ showing number of militants killed was objective in itself with no plan for how Gaza could be governed afterwards, say sources in elite Unit 8200As Israel gears up for a new offensive in Gaza, figures from a classified database suggest …

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Martin Rowson on Russian and Israeli preparations for peace talks – cartoon
ByMartin Rowson August 22, 2025

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Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to Israeli war crime, says UN rights agency – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian August 22, 2025

Famine in Gaza is the ‘direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government’ and deaths from starvation may amount to a war crime, the UN human rights agency spokesperson Jeremy Laurence has said Israel-Gaza war – latest updates Continue reading…

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