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Children are being treated under extremely limited conditions, with hospitals struggling to respond to the growing health crisis at Tahrir Hospital, affiliated with the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza's Khan Yunis on July 1, 2025. The hospital admitted 10 additional children with suspected meningitis. This raises the total number of reported meningitis cases among children in the region to 30

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With Gaza's healthcare destroyed, meningitis spirals under siege

Where homes and hospitals lie in ruins, children face a deadly meningitis outbreak in overcrowded shelters with no access to clean water or proper healthcare

Sally Ibrahim

23 July, 2025

Israel war on healthcare is designed to deprive Gaza of survival

I am a doctor who's worked in Gaza. I know Israel targets medics

Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Ghassan Abu-Sittah

12 May, 2025

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

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Al-Shifa Hospital's kidney disease patients fight to stay alive

Sally Ibrahim

29 April, 2025

Gaza faces food, fuel, and medicine shortages amid Israeli aid blockade [Getty]

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Israel, Hamas to resume Doha talks as Gaza faces fuel crisis

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

09 March, 2025

Palestinians in Jabalia [Getty]

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Soaring prices compound burdens faced by Gaza's Palestinians

Sally Ibrahim

13 February, 2025

Palestinians returned to the Jabaliya refugee camp, where neighbourhoods have been reduced to ashes by Israeli forces [Getty]

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Palestinians return to rubble in 'uninhabitable' north Gaza

The New Arab Staff

21 January, 2025

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Palestinian children

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Gaza's families expose horrors of frozen babies amid genocide

Eman Alhaj Ali

10 January, 2025

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Voices of Gazan cancer patients trapped by war and separation

Mohammed Omer

18 November, 2024

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Israel's war triggers plague of disease outbreaks in Gaza

Alessandra Bajec

30 July, 2024

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With bank infrastructure in ruins, Gaza gets a crypto lifeline

Azraa Muthy

16 July, 2024

I'm a doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw was harrowing

Abdalrahman Algendy

Abdo Algendy

22 March, 2024

A Ramadan of reflection and resistance for Gaza

Hebh Jamal

14 March, 2024

Hunger, humiliation & airdrops: Israel's psychological war

Emad Moussa

05 March, 2024

Yemen

From Gaza to Yemen, starvation cannot be a weapon of war

Aisha Jumaan & Mira Mehta

Aisha Jumaan & Mira Mehta

21 February, 2024

Gaza water

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Drop by drop: Israel's occupation of Gaza's water

Emad Moussa

29 November, 2023

Gaza's women resort to period-delaying pills in desperation

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Gaza's women resort to period-delaying pills in desperation

Rodayna Raydan

22 November, 2023

Incubators, Israel, and the illusion of information

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Incubators, Israel, and the illusion of information

Saoud Khalaf

21 November, 2023