For more than five months, 15,000 boxes of children’s cold medicine and other vital medicines meant for kids in the Gaza Strip have been sitting in a warehouse, awaiting approval from Israeli authorities that never seems to come. To Israeli officials, the cold medicine I am trying to deliver is a potential weapon. Israeli officials…
KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip  — It had been 647 days since Amani Imran left her home, and she had felt every single one of them. So when the call came at 10 p.m. telling her she was finally leaving Egypt and returning to Gaza the next day, she didn’t think about the house that was destroyed…
As a psychologist in the occupied West Bank, I have spent my career sitting across from children carrying burdens no child should ever know — lives shaped not by playgrounds or classrooms, but by constant fear. I recognize that fear because I lived it myself. I remember when I was less than 5 years old,…
At least 20 Palestinians, including several children and a paramedic, have been killed and almost 40 others wounded in Israeli strikes in Gaza, hospitals say. The Israeli military said tanks and aircraft carried out “precise strikes” against what it called “terrorists” who opened fire on troops in the north of the strip, seriously wounding an…