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Abdelazim Wadi, 50, holds up a poster commemorating his brother, Ibrahim Wadi, and his nephew, Ahmed Wadi, who were killed by Israeli settlers during a funeral procession on Oct. 12 in the rural Palestinian village of Qusra, West Bank, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. With the world’s attention focused on the fighting in Gaza, Israeli settler violence against Palestinians since Oct. 7 has surged to the highest levels ever recorded by the United Nations. Palestinians say this Israel-Hamas war has left them more scared and vulnerable than ever in recent memory. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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With the world's eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Sun,11/19/23-11:02PM , 69 Reads
QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank.
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An injured Palestinian boy is carried from the ground following an Israeli airstrike outside the entrance of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

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Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza?
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Sat,11/11/23-2:25PM , 108 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.
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Palestinians resort to the sea water to bathe and clean their tools and clothes due the continuing water shortage in the Gaza Strip, on the beach of Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. With the Israel-Hamas war in its second month and more than 10,000 people killed in Gaza, trapped civilians are struggling to survive without electricity or running water. Each day has become a mind-numbing cycle of searching for bread and water and waiting in lines. A sense of desperation has strained Gaza's close-knit society. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman, File)

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Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza's close-knit society
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Thu,11/09/23-11:18AM , 92 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters.
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Mourners pray by the bodies of Salem Abu Quta family members, a Hamas fighter, during a funeral after they were killed in an Israeli strike on their house in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. As the fifth Israel-Hamas war rages, growing more deadly and devastating, international and local monitoring groups in besieged Gaza have been unable to keep up. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)

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EXPLAINER: What is Gaza's Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war's death toll?
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Thu,10/26/23-1:40PM , 231 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — How many Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and Hamas started?
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