Linah Alsaafin

Three broth­ers be­long­ing to al-Samouni fam­i­ly were kid­napped by Is­raeli army on the ‘safe cor­ri­dor’ south of Gaza City.

Peo­ple hop­ing to buy es­sen­tials like food, warm clothes dur­ing the pause in Is­rael’s bomb­ing frus­trat­ed by price hikes.

Ac­cord­ing to terms of a four-day truce be­tween Is­rael and Hamas, 150 Pales­tin­ian women and chil­dren will be re­leased.

No one knows the fate of the Khay­al fam­i­ly who tried to flee south dur­ing four-hour pause last Fri­day but were shot at.

With no prop­er treat­ment and care, the 2,000 can­cer pa­tients in the Gaza Strip live in cat­a­stroph­ic health con­di­tions.

Hun­dreds of for­eign na­tion­als have ex­it­ed Gaza through the Rafah cross­ing, but some Pales­tin­ian Egyp­tians are strand­ed.

Es­cap­ing over­crowd­ed schools, fam­i­lies dis­placed by Is­raeli bombs are bathing in ocean pol­lut­ed with un­treat­ed sewage.

The past month saw es­ca­lat­ing Is­raeli vi­o­lence against Pales­tini­ans in the oc­cu­pied West Bank, Jerusalem and Is­rael.

Since the start of the Is­raeli of­fen­sive on Oc­to­ber 7, farm­ers have been un­able to ac­cess their farm­land and crops.

Is­rael claims the med­ical per­mits of the pa­tients, rel­a­tives had ex­pired. Pales­tin­ian of­fi­cials say they’re in the dark.