Dining on long makeshift tables and among the rubble of where their homes once stood, hundreds of Palestinians gathered for a mass Iftar in Gaza City on Thursday. (AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana)

The highest level of damage was recorded in the northern governorates of North Gaza and Gaza City. That area was repeatedly targeted by Israeli air strikes throughout the war and was subject to a siege in the latter half of 2024. Civilians were ordered to evacuate amid heavy bombardment.

Drone fires missile into group of civilians heading to inspect their homes in Shujaiya neighborhood, eyewitnesses say - Anadolu Ajansı

Hamas said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats against Palestinians constituted support for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back out of the Gaza ceasefire and intensify the siege of Gazans.

Even if Trump doesn’t order American soldiers to occupy and expel us, as he first said he would, he has effectively given Israel approval to do so.

At least six babies have died in the past two weeks in Gaza due to the cold weather and lack of adequate shelter and heating, Palestinian medics and health officials say.

A large-scale polio vaccination campaign brought hope to Gaza's children. A new blockade on further humanitarian aid delivery threatens emergency relief efforts.

On Dec. 3, 2023, an Israeli airstrike reduced his five-story home in Beit Lahia to debris, burying 54 members of his family beneath it, he said. Among those killed were his wife, his sons, his parents, his brothers and their wives, his nieces and nephews and his cousins, Assaf said.