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Dawoud Abu Alkas
Mourners carry the body of Hamas leader Mohammed Odeh and other Palestinians in a funeral procession in Gaza City on Wednesday, a day after his targeted assassination by the Israeli army.
WORLD
May 28, 2026
Palestinians mourn slain Hamas militant chief as Israel escalates Gaza attacks
The Israeli military said Mohammad Odeh was killed in a targeted attack on Tuesday night, just over a week after his predecessor was killed.
Fadel Al-Naji, 14, who lost both legs, sits beside his brother Amir Al-Naji, 11, who lost an eye, after they were injured in an Israeli strike, at their home in Gaza City.
WORLD / Society
Apr 17, 2026
Gaza’s war amputees short of prostheses under Israeli restrictions
Such is the need for prosthetic limbs that two medical centers said they were trying to reuse old prosthetic limbs recovered from people killed in the war.
A Palestinian patient lies inside an ambulance, accompanied by relatives, as they make their way back to their homes after being informed by officials that their travel scheduled for today through the Rafah border crossing was postponed, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Feb 5, 2026
Israeli strikes kill 24 in Gaza, health officials say
Among the dead was a medic who rushed to help victims of a strike in the southern city of Khan Younis and was then killed by a second attack on the same location.
A Palestinian rummages through the rubble of his destroyed home to build a shelter for his family ahead of winter in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Dec 15, 2025
Hamas says Israel’s killing of senior commander threatens ceasefire
Israel says Hamas senior commander Raed Saed was one of the key architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.
A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reads a story to children as part of mental support activities at the organization’s center in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Society
Nov 4, 2025
Gaza’s psychological trauma brings large numbers to seek help
Two years of intense Israeli bombardment and repeated military incursions, along with widespread homelessness and hunger, have affected all 2.3 million inhabitants.
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes during a military operation, in Gaza City, on Thursday. Israeli troops have begun to advance toward the city center.
WORLD
Sep 19, 2025
Gaza hit by telecoms blackout as Israeli tanks and infantry advance
Large numbers of Israeli troops have begun moving toward the center of Gaza City as the families of Israeli hostages implore authorities to stop the offensive and negotiate.
Music instructor Ahmed Abu Amsha, 43, of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, conducts a lesson for Palestinian girls in Gaza City.
WORLD / Society
Aug 15, 2025
Gaza’s young musicians sing and play in the ruins of war
Students in Gaza have continued music classes from displacement camps and shattered buildings even after Israel’s bombardments forced them to abandon schools in the city.
Nemah Hamouda holds a baby bottle while cradling her 3-month-old granddaughter, Muntaha, as she prepares to feed her amid a severe shortage of infant formula and rising malnutrition, in Gaza City, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2025
‘If the baby could speak, she would scream’: the risky measures to feed small babies in Gaza
Infant formula is scarce after a plummet in aid access to Gaza and many women cannot breastfeed due to malnourishment.
A nurse examines a malnourished child at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on July 25.
WORLD / Society
Jul 31, 2025
On Gaza malnutrition ward, a child’s arm is as wide as mother’s thumb
Gaza’s food stocks have been running out since Israel, at war with Hamas since October 2023, cut off all supplies to the territory in March.
Palestinians inspect the damage at a school sheltering displaced people, following an overnight Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 4, 2025
Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as scores more are killed in Gaza
Israeli officials said prospects for reaching a ceasefire and hostage deal appeared high, nearly 21 months since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
Palestinian girl Silla Abu Aqleen, who lost her right leg during the Israeli military offensive, holds her artificial limb during a physiotherapy session at the Gaza City municipality-run Artificial Limbs and Polio Center, in Gaza City on March 17.
WORLD / Society
Apr 14, 2025
Gaza’s amputees face life in a war zone with little treatment and less hope
Israel suspended all humanitarian aid into Gaza after the collapse of a 2-month-old ceasefire last month, complicating efforts to obtain artificial limbs.
A Palestinian man searches for the graves and bodies of his father, brother and brother-in-law at Shejaia cemetery, which was flattened by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 24, 2025
Bereaved Gazans dig out bodies from city ruins and give them graves
Burials are usually carried out within a few hours of death in Muslim and Arab communities, and failure to ensure dignified burials is agonizing for families.
An Israeli soldier during a ground operations in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2024
Netanyahu says Gaza deal must let Israel resume fighting until war goals met
A plan introduced by U.S. President Joe Biden in May and mediated by Qatar and Egypt, aims to end the war and free around 120 Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes on the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) on October 11, 2023.
WORLD / Society
May 13, 2024
Gazans strive to study as war shatters education system
The U.N. estimates that 72.5% of schools in Gaza will need full reconstruction or major rehabilitation.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.

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