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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DECEMBER 4: Palestinian teacher Doha al-Attar (30) is viewed with her students as she continues to teach them in the rubble of her school, which was mostly destroyed in the Israeli army attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 4, 2024. Despite the limited and difficult conditions, teacher Attar strives to ensure that her students are not deprived of education. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 22: People protest the involvement of the U.S. in Israel's war against Iran near the Wilshire Federal Building on June 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The Trump administration has bombed Iran with the largest B-2 bomber strike in U.S. history without obtaining Congressional approval. The anti-war protest comes as daily protests reacting to a series of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids escalated after President Trump authorized military forces to protect federal property against the wishes of city and state officials. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A Region Holding Its Breath: After the Israel-Iran War

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 26: A former domestic worker hangs her laundry to dry on September 26, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon accounts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries and working in private households. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are subjected to the kafala system, a private migration sponsorship system in Gulf countries which exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. Lebanon's economic crisis as well the August 4 blast has left a significant number of migrant workers in a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Aline Deschamps/Getty Images)

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 22: People protest the involvement of the U.S. in Israel's war against Iran near the Wilshire Federal Building on June 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The Trump administration has bombed Iran with the largest B-2 bomber strike in U.S. history without obtaining Congressional approval. The anti-war protest comes as daily protests reacting to a series of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids escalated after President Trump authorized military forces to protect federal property against the wishes of city and state officials. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A Region Holding Its Breath: After the Israel-Iran War

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 26: A former domestic worker hangs her laundry to dry on September 26, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon accounts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries and working in private households. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are subjected to the kafala system, a private migration sponsorship system in Gulf countries which exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. Lebanon's economic crisis as well the August 4 blast has left a significant number of migrant workers in a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Aline Deschamps/Getty Images)

Gulf — Fiction as Testimony to Middle East Injustice

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People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip north into Gaza City on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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The January We Thought Would Save Us: On the Collapse of Gaza's Ceasefire

Muhammad (C) carry the body of his 14-year-old son Omar Muhammad Saadeh Rabee during his funeral in the village of Turmus Ayya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 7, 2025. A Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli forces shot dead a teenager holding US citizenship in the occupied West Bank on April 7, while the Israeli military said it had killed a "terrorist" who threw rocks at cars. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

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The Leahy Law Can Bring Justice for Amer Rabee, the Latest American Citizen Killed by Israel

Palestinians attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Gaza City's historic Omari Mosque on March 30, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

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Eid in Gaza Is Now Like an Open Wound

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Tracing Gaza's Modern History, From Balfour to Hamas

Palestinians react as they inspect the damage, a day after an Israeli strike, on Mawasi Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 5, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant group. Gaza's civil defence agency said on December 4, that 20 people, including five children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a displacement camp near Khan Yunis in the territory's south. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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The Death of Amr: Portrait of a Genocide

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

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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'My Fellow American': A Poem

Palestinian children play amidst the rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 17, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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

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