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People gather by the rubble of destroyed buildings for a mass gathering for a communal iftar fast-breaking meal on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the area of al-Dahduh in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa district on March 2, 2025 amid the ongoing truce in the war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

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Ramadan in Gaza: Fasting Under Fire, Praying Among the Ruins

March 20, 2025

People look on as n Israeli bulldozer tears up a street in the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank, on February 23, 2025. Israel on February 23 said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)

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U.N: Investigate Bulldozers Used by Israel for Home Demolitions in Gaza, West Bank

March 18, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Storm clouds gather near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and other Senate Republicans said that they will not vote to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government that would include an increase to the debt ceiling. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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DAWN Joins 124 Organizations Urging Congress to Restore UNRWA Funding

March 4, 2025

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Ramadan in Gaza: Fasting Under Fire, Praying Among the Ruins

March 20, 2025

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'We Don't Need Saviors—We Need Solidarity.' The Fight for Women's Rights in Post-Assad Syria

March 18, 2025

A man walks past shelter tents erected near collapsed buildings in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on October 1, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

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Ramadan in Gaza: Fasting Under Fire, Praying Among the Ruins

March 20, 2025

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U.N: Investigate Bulldozers Used by Israel for Home Demolitions in Gaza, West Bank

March 18, 2025

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JUNE 01: Maersk cargo containers pass through the Savidor train station on June 01, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Despite the recent IDF operation 'Shield and Arrow' against Palestinian militants in Gaza, as well as the ongoing Judicial reform issues with the Netanyahu Government, tourism continues to grow. In January, Israel's Ministry of Tourism announced that over 2.67 million foreign tourists entered the country in 2022. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

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DAWN Joins 70+ Organizations Urging Maersk Shareholders to Demand Human Rights Accountability in Arms Shipments to Israel

March 18, 2025

Shadi Salem

Shadi Salem is a Palestinian writer from Gaza. In 2017, he co-founded the Edward Said Public Library, Gaza’s first English language library, with poet Mosab Abu Toha. His first book, Beneath the Gaza Sky, is forthcoming.

Ramadan in Gaza: Fasting Under Fire, Praying Among the Ruins

Many families in Gaza are either homeless, living in the streets or crammed into small tents, making it impossible to...

In Gaza, My Two-Year-Old Daughter Has Only Known War and Destruction

I left Gaza a month before the war, believing I would return soon—that my absence would be brief, and that...

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