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‘It’s like a nuclear bomb has hit’: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation
BySeham Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger October 18, 2025

Families are going back to Gaza City and surrounds to find their neighbourhoods obliterated, with many forced to camp in the ruinsWhen the Gaza ceasefire took effect a week ago, tens of thousands of Palestinians began to move from the sprawling camps i…

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Israel says it has received body of another hostage from Gaza amid dispute over handover delays
ByAgencies October 18, 2025

Red Cross passed coffin from Hamas to Israeli military, with the remains to go through a formal identification processThe Red Cross had handed over the body of another hostage from Gaza to the IDF, Israel said early on Saturday, amid a dispute over del…

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Israel identifies body of 10th hostage recovered from Gaza
ByAgencies October 18, 2025October 18, 2025

Remains of Eliyahu ‘Churchill’ Margalit, who was killed on 7 October 2023, identified after being passed to Red Cross by HamasThe body of a 75-year-old hostage handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in Gaza late on Friday has been identified by Israel’s…

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‘We feel betrayed’: Israeli families still seeking return of deceased hostages
ByDaniel Boffey in Tel Aviv October 17, 2025

With the remains of 19 Hamas hostages still missing, loved ones feel their cycle of grief has yet to endWhen Tamir Adar left his wife and two children, Asaf, 7, and Neta, 3, in the secure room of their home on 7 October 2023 he told them: “Two minutes,…

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Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem October 17, 2025

UN urges opening of all crossing points as fewer than half of intended trucks enter strip and WHO warns of ‘spiralling’ diseaseMiddle East crisis – live updatesAid remains critically scarce in Gaza one week into the ceasefire, humanitarian agencies hav…

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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
ByGeneva Abdul October 17, 2025

Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in GazaIt is a black hole, the director and writer Annemarie Jacir tells me of the year 193…

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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
ByWilliam Dalrymple October 17, 2025

The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the presentAs a ceasefire brings a measure of peace to the Dresden-like hellscape that Gaza has be…

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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
ByWilliam Dalrymple October 17, 2025

The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the presentAs a ceasefire brings a measure of peace to the Dresden-like hellscape that Gaza has be…

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Infectious diseases in Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’, says WHO – as it happened
ByAmy Sedghi October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

UN official says: ‘Whether meningitis … diarrhoea, respiratory illnesses, we’re talking about a mammoth amount of work’. This live blog is closedGaza aid still critically scarce, say agenciesWe’ve got a bit more from the UN’s World Food Programme on th…

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Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
ByJason Burke International security correspondent October 17, 2025

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivalsThroughout Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, aid officials working in the territory avoided naming Hamas in conversations they suspected m…

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