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Though political leaders are holding onto the term “ceasefire” and have yet to withdraw from the process, there is growing despair in Gaza. On Saturday, Atallah Abu Hadaiyed heard explosions in Gaza City during his morning prayers and ran outside to find his cousins lying on the ground as flames curled around them.

Many of the soldiers buried in the cemetery died before the state of Israel was established, some decades earlier.

Several civilians crossed into the buffer zone separating the territory of the State of Israel from the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said.The post Hundreds of Israelis try to enter Gaza

By Ramadan Abed and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Eatedal Rayyan waited for this moment for nearly two years: a reunion with her husband in Gaza, where she says yearning for family and homeland has persisted despite widespread destruction from the enclave's two-year war.

The crossing has been completely closed to Palestinians in Gaza since May 2024.

The Rafah border crossing was Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel before the war.

On the day it did, Israel allowed just five patients and seven relatives to leave (around 20,000 Gazans need urgent medical treatment abroad). Of the 50 people registered to return to Gaza that day, only three women and nine children were let in.

According to the Southern District Attorney’s Office, this was an “organized, systematic, and sophisticated smuggling operation of various goods into the Gaza Strip in exchange for financial gain.”