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Before the war, Gaza had a functioning agricultural sector, despite the Israeli blockade.

In 2022 its farmers exported produce worth more than 16 million dollars.

But that all changed over the past year - when Israel waged war not only on the people of Gaza but also on its agricultural lands and ecosystems.

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Israel's war on Gaza has taken a heavy toll on aid organisations.

Its attacks have killed at least 226 United Nations aid workers.

That's the most killed in a single conflict since the establishment of the UN.

Early in the war, Israel launched a disinformation campaign, accusing some employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees of being involved in the attacks on October the 7th.

However, an investigation found no evidence.

The agency is a lifeline for the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

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After 76 years of Nakba, Israel's genocide in Gaza unfolds before the eyes of the world. Al Jazeera explores the context of the war on Gaza, which did not start on October 7th. It follows decades of occupation, dispossession, illegal land grabs, and an apartheid system discriminating against the indigenous people of Palestine.

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Hezbollah has fired more than 100 rockets from Lebanon into the Israeli port city of Haifa. The attack occurred immediately after the armed group's deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, made a televised address.

The Israeli army reports that this rocket barrage is the largest to ever strike the city.

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Israel's war on Gaza has been the deadliest conflict in recent memory for journalists.

The International Federation of Journalists says the mortality rate is over 10 percent.

Israeli attacks have killed 174 media workers in Gaza in the past year.

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Throngs of protesters rallied in New York City joining the “Flood NYC for Palestine” event organised by activist groups.

Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags, pounded drums, and shouted slogans against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The rally came a year after the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that unleashed the brutal war on the enclave.

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Our correspondent Hani Mahmoud reflects on a year of covering the Gaza war. He describes the constant pressure of wearing a vest, balancing his role as a journalist and a father, and evacuating his family. At one point, he brought his son to work, only for them to witness an Israeli air raid nearby. Mahmoud expresses deep concern for his family’s safety and hopes for an end to the violence, longing to report on a ceasefire instead of more devastation.

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Hezbollah has carried out a series of overnight strikes on Israeli targets.

The group says it targeted the Glilot military base near Tel Aviv. It houses the Mossad headquarters - Israel's intelligence agency.

Hezbollah also launched a number of missiles early on Monday.

The Israeli army says about 190 rockets were fired at the port city of Haifa, penetrating the Iron Dome defence system.

Beirut bombed again: Israeli army targets buildings in southern suburb

And in the southern suburb of Beirut, Israeli forces have carried out more air strikes on what they say was Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters.

They say one of the group's commanders Suhail Hussein Husseini was killed in the attack.

Israeli officials issued a warning on social media ahead of the strike, calling for the evacuation of two buildings in Dahiyeh.

Israeli authorities are ordering more forced displacements

in southern Lebanon, urging residents to leave all beaches and areas near the Awali River.

The evacuation zone extends south from the river's source to the Israeli border.

This directive effectively isolates approximately 25% of Lebanon's coastline, impacting more than one million people in the region.

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85% of Gaza's schools have been damaged or destroyed, and all universities have been demolished.

Israa Abu Mustafa is a Palestinian teacher who has built a classroom in the ruins of her house in Khan Younis.

She says she wants to help displaced children continue their education, despite the destruction of their schools.

The Gaza Education Ministry says more than 650,000 Palestinian students will lose out an education for the second consecutive year.

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It's been exactly one year since Hamas launched attacks on Israel on October the 7th.

Israel is marking the anniversary by pounding Gaza with air strikes.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the past year - from newborn babies, to the elderly. Nobody has been safe.

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Our cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has been injured by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza, becoming the second Al Jazeera cameraman to be injured in an Israeli attack this week.

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During an interview with Al Jazeera, senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discussed the United States' ongoing support for Israel at the UN Security Council, highlighting that the US has repeatedly blocked resolutions aimed at providing humanitarian aid and ceasefires during the conflict in Gaza. He noted that the death toll among Palestinians nears 42,000. Bishara emphasised that the US's actions suggest complicity in a genocide in Gaza, attributing this to America's imperial interests rather than a double standard. He argued that US interests drive its foreign policy, often disregarding the value of Palestinian lives compared to those of other nationalities.

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For a year, our reporters in Gaza have been working around the clock, covering the latest developments.

But the coverage comes at a personal cost.

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Israeli authorities have issued warnings for southern Lebanon, telling residents they should leave all beaches and areas near the Awali River.

It follows constant, heavy air strikes in the south of the country, that Israeli forces call targeted operations against Hezbollah.

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We begin in Gaza, where the latest Israeli attacks have killed at least 60 Palestinians since dawn on Wednesday.

The military is pushing deeper into Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the strip.

The ground assault is in its fifth day.

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Israeli anti-war activist Maoz Inon blames the Israeli government for the death of his parents in the Hamas attack on October 7. He says Israel has strayed from Judaism and its ‘war of revenge’ on Gaza will destroy his country. #AJOPINION

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Western governments have been accused of hypocrisy, with double standards laid bare in their reaction to Israel's war.

It stands in stark contrast with Washington's approach to Russia and its war in Ukraine.

And has diminished the credibility of what US administrations invoke time and again: the idea of an international rules-based order.

Victor Gao is the Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization and a former Chinese Foreign Service officer.

He says the US has to stop Israel from committing crimes against the Palestinians.

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The Israeli army has killed at least 24 Palestinians since dawn in the latest attacks across the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli drone strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat refugee camp killed four members of the same family.

A child survived the attack but lost his father in the strike.

Palestinians mourned their dead in a funeral in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The Israeli military has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians since October the 7th last year,

An Israeli strike also hit a bakery in the Jabalia refugee camp.

It caused a fire to break out in the crowded camp.

The Israeli army has intensified its assault on northern Gaza in recent days and issued forced displacement orders for Palestinians there.

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Western governments have been accused of hypocrisy, with double standards laid bare in their reaction to Israel's war.

It stands in stark contrast with Washington's approach to Russia and its war in Ukraine.

And has diminished the credibility of what US administrations invoke time and again: the idea of an international rules-based order.

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The United States has firmly backed Israel in its war against Hamas and sent its closest ally in the Middle East guided-missile carriers and F-35 fighters as well as other military equipment.

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One year of Israel's war on Gaza and the US remains Israel's biggest ally and largest supplier of arms.

Despite widespread condemnation and critics calling him "Genocide Joe". President Biden's stance on Israel and his government's military and financial support remain steadfast

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Even before the war Palestinians in Gaza, were caged in, and cut off from the rest of the world.

For 17 years Israel had imposed a land, air and sea blockade on Gaza.

And that siege has intensified in the past year of with absolutely no way out for the residents of Gaza as they were being systematically targeted.

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Guy Shalev, executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, says his NGO, which documents human rights abuses, has been closely following Israeli attacks on Gaza’s health system.

“There are more than 20,000 Palestinians who await medical evacuation in Gaza who can’t be treated there and can’t get out,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that only several hundred have been allowed to leave since May. In the occupied West Bank, the organisation is working closely with Palestinians to document “settler violence and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities” while trying to assist prisoners.

“Access is very restricted. For instance, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] has not had any access to any Israeli prison in the past year, which is a dire violation of prisoners’ human rights and of international law,” he said.

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The Israeli military says the sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel, and “interception attempts were conducted”. A second update by the military said that two unmanned aircraft had crossed from Lebanon. It said the Israeli air force successfully intercepted one aircraft, but that one had caused damage to a building in Herzliya in the northern part of the Tel Aviv district. It added that no casualties have been reported.

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A three-day strike by public transport workers has brought Peru’s capital to a standstill.

Unions are demanding the government take action against organised crime after three drivers were killed in September.

The government has already declared a state of emergency in parts of the capital and says it’s creating a special squad to combat extortion.

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Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports from the scene of one of the Israeli attacks in central Beirut that killed at least 22 people. Among the victims was a family who’d fled Israel’s assault on southern Lebanon.

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Al Jazeera journalists who’ve reported from devastating scenes in the war on Gaza explain what it’s been like working while losing family, friends, colleagues and homes over the past year.

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Since the war on Gaza began, Israeli forces have detained at least 108 Palestinian journalists in the occupied West Bank – nearly half of them 59 remain in jail.

Many of the charges relate to their work, journalists are often accused of provocation.

Other media workers have been targeted and harassed.

Most recently, Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah was shut down, preventing its staff from reporting in the occupied West Bank.

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The United Nations says Israel is waging war on the occupied West Bank.

As we saw in Nida's report, Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank this past year have been among the most violent breaking all records of killings, detentions, and demolitions of Palestinian homes.

But the UN says a silent war is also taking place one focused on seizing Palestinian territory and uprooting Palestinian families from their land.

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Members of the UN Security Council have been discussing the volatile situation in Lebanon including the attack on peacekeepers.

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South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm on Thursday.

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Israeli bombing in Gaza city hit a clinic that was being used as a shelter for displaced people. At least four people were killed and many others seriously wounded.

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The Lebanese health ministry reports that 22 people have been killed and 117 wounded in the Israeli strikes on central Beirut. As Al Jazeera's correspondent in Beirut Dorsa Jabbari reported earlier, the strikes hit residential buildings in two densely packed neighbourhoods, Nweiri and Basta.

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eighteen months of fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has led to the displacement of millions of people.

In recent weeks, the Sudanese army launched an offensive to retake parts of the capital.

It took over Khartoum Bahri, one of the three cities that make up the greater Khartoum area. capital.

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Israeli forces are attacking UN peacekeeper troops in southern Lebanon. Why are the soldiers there and why does Israel see them as targets? Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi has some answers.

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A vast majority of Latin American countries have been strong critics of Israel. Protests in support of the Palestinian cause have continued for over a year.

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Lebanon’s State media reported that an Israeli strike hit Ras El-Nabaa, a neighbourhood in central Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, marking the third such attack on the capital since Israel intensified its air campaign last month. While Israel has frequently targeted the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, strikes in the city's central areas have been rare.

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At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, families are searching for missing loved ones after Israeli forces attacked a school shelter, killing 28 Palestinians and wounding 54. A mother searches for her son, hoping to identify him by a birthmark, while a man found his wife, killed while collecting formula milk at the shelter, by recognising her clothes. The hospital’s emergency department is overwhelmed, with staff struggling to provide care. The bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, caused severe injuries. Blood from the victims filled the hospital courtyard as ambulances arrived.

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Ratan Tata, a former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night. He was 86.

Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran confirmed Tata’s death and described him in a statement as his “friend, mentor, and guide”. He did not provide a cause of death.

He was credited with transforming his family business into a global powerhouse - and was known for his charitable work.

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Israel's military operations in Lebanon have now extended beyond a week.

The Israeli army describes this as a limited ground operation, targeting what it claims to be Hezbollah's infrastructure in border towns.

But Hezbollah is mounting resistance, confronting Israeli forces as they try to move north.

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The UN says Israeli troops have opened fire at three positions held by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. Earlier this week, the UNIFIL force refused a request from the Israeli military to vacate bases near the border.

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After 1 year of war, Money Works looks at what the impact has been on the economies in Gaza, the Occupied West Bank and Israel.

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The work of journalists on the ground in Gaza has been indispensable, in showing the world exactly what's going on during Israel's military assault.

One group of artists in London was so moved by the work of Palestinian reporters, including our own Hind Khoudary, they created a series of murals to honour them.

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France has large Jewish and Muslim populations.

One year after October 7, authorities there are increasingly concerned about the divisions that Israel’s war on Gaza is creating in society.

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Showing solidarity with people in Gaza has become risky in Germany.

Artists, writers, street protesters have been cancelled, silenced or arrested.

Some even lost their jobs after expressing anger against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

It’s part of what Germany sees as its historical responsibility to support Israel unconditionally.

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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a Japanese pressure group that campaigns against the use of nuclear weapons. The prize defied widespread expectations that peacemakers in the Middle East would receive it. But the actual recipients drew their own parallels with the war in Gaza and Lebanon.

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A string of marches took place throughout Europe, in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The war generated mass protest movements – even when bans were imposed to prevent them.

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Students in Europe also joined protests, demanding their universities and colleges cut ties with Israel.

Within one month, students set up camps and occupied halls on campuses in several countries.

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Students who took part in the protest movement in the US have been marking one year of Israel's war with more demonstrations.

A federal judge stopped an attempt to ban a vigil by a Palestinian student group at the University of Maryland.

But new restrictions at other colleges are forcing student activists to change their tactics.

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Students across the US have been particularly vocal demanding their universities and colleges cut economic ties with Israeli companies.

They say the investments pay for Israeli crimes in Gaza.

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