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Gaza Strip as seen from the window of the Jordanian cargo plane carrying aid.

The view over Gaza onboard a Jordanian aid plane

Israel-Hamas war

As part of the effort to get more food and water into Gaza, the Jordanian air force is participating in airdrops into the beleaguered territory. The World’s Shirin Jaafari traveled along on one of the flights to see what it takes to get aid into Gaza from above.

Gaza Sunbird team members distribute much-needed food aid and other supplies in Rafah, Gaza in February 2024.

Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team pivots to aid distribution amid war

Israel-Hamas war
Men sit at a cafe at the Baqa'a refugee camp, north of the capital Amman, Dec. 12, 2023.

Stateless Palestinians in Jordan struggle to make a future

Israel-Hamas war
Rubble from destroyed building and homes in Gaza

Gaza resident: ‘We all have the feeling we won’t make it until tomorrow’

Israel-Hamas war
People walk by the rubble of the al-Jalaa building following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, May 21, 2021. The building housed The Associated Press bureau in Gaza City for 15 years.

The blockade on Gaza hampers life and reconstruction

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A Palestinian artist paints protective face masks to encourage people to wear them as a precaution against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Gaza City, on March 30, 2020.

Gaza Strip fears spread of the coronavirus, Palestinian epidemiologist says

COVID-19

In the Gaza Strip, roughly 2 million Palestinians are squeezed into a small territory. And though there have been few reported cases of the coronavirus, experts worry Israel’s years-long blockade has left the territory ill-equipped to handle the outbreak.

Gaza boy pushing wheelchair water

Gaza’s water crisis is ‘a ticking time bomb’

Conflict & Justice

Humanitarian organizations fear the water crisis in Gaza is so acute, it may become uninhabitable by the year 2020.

Palestinian children play on a ferris wheel near residential buildings that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in the summer of 2014, in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza, July 27, 2015.

Gaza now has a toxic ‘biosphere of war’ that no one can escape

Conflict & Justice

Undrinkable drinking water is just one example of how blockades and war have permeated an entire ecosystem.

Palestinians fled in a vehicle Monday from Israeli shelling in Bet Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip.

Civilians in Gaza City say nowhere is safe amidst the Israeli assault on Hamas targets

Conflict & Justice

Fighting in the the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya has reduced many areas to rubble. The BBC’s Lyse Doucet tells PRI’s The World that residents can’t find shelter, despite Israeli assurances to the contrary.

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