Lost generation & school year starts in Gaza with classes shut

The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began yesterday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of war and no sign of a ceasefire.

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Civilians among 18 killed in Israel&s deadliest airstrike on Syria since Iran embassy attack

At least 18 people, including five civilians, were killed on Sunday in Israel&s airstrike on Syria&s Hama countryside, Syrian state media reported.

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Benjamin Netanyahu at odds with Mossad and his army over ‘forever war&

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a split with spy agency Mossad and the defence forces over hostage negotiations as senior government figures openly row over ending the war in Gaza.

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Three Israelis die in shooting at West Bank-Jordan border as seven killed in airstrikes on Gaza

Three Israelis were gunned down at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan yesterday, hours after the latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed seven people, including two women, four children and a member of the local civil defence.

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Gazans rush to get children vaccinated as war is paused in some areas

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centres in the south of the embattled Gaza Strip yesterday for their children to be vaccinated against polio in the second stage of a campaign that has so far seen 187,000 youngsters inoculated.

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American woman shot dead by Israeli soldiers while protesting in West Bank

Israeli soldiers killed an American woman participating in an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank yesterday, another protester who witnessed the shooting told the Associated Press. Two doctors said she was shot in the head.

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