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1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.pngTareq S. Hajjaj, Author at ZNetwork
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3232Israel Is (Still) Killing Aid Workers in Gaza
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-still-killing-aid-workers-in-gaza/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-still-killing-aid-workers-in-gaza/#respondWed, 22 Apr 2026 17:48:00 +0000Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving a truck for the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) on April 6 when the Israeli army killed him in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Aslan was the main driver in a WHO convoy that was transporting injured Palestinian patients from Gaza to Egypt and other countries. The convoy already had [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-still-killing-aid-workers-in-gaza/feed/0Israel’s Restriction of Aid Into Gaza Leads to Critical Shortages in Bread, Baby Formula, and Water
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-restriction-of-aid-into-gaza-leads-to-critical-shortages-in-bread-baby-formula-and-water/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-restriction-of-aid-into-gaza-leads-to-critical-shortages-in-bread-baby-formula-and-water/#respondWed, 15 Apr 2026 18:55:20 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296907Amjad Ashour, 50, stands in the nutrition department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, holding his four-month-old infant as doctors warn him that a lack of formula leads to stunted growth, developmental delays, and serious health complications. His child is already suffering from the shortage. Ashour’s wife, the baby’s mother, is herself malnourished, leaving the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-restriction-of-aid-into-gaza-leads-to-critical-shortages-in-bread-baby-formula-and-water/feed/0‘We Own Gaza Now’: Inside An Israeli Interrogation Room At The Rafah Border Crossing
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/#respondFri, 27 Feb 2026 16:48:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295235Palestinians returning to Gaza from Egypt report being beaten, tortured, and humiliated by Israeli border agents and pressured to collaborate with Israel as informants. Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing report systematic harassment, beatings, torture, and being told to leave Gaza with their families by Israeli border agents. Returnees who spoke to Mondoweiss described [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/feed/0Israeli Ban On 37 Aid Organizations Expected To Have Devastating Impacts Across Palestine
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-ban-on-37-aid-organizations-expected-to-have-devastating-impacts-across-palestine/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-ban-on-37-aid-organizations-expected-to-have-devastating-impacts-across-palestine/#respondThu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293498Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah. Israel’s decision to cancel the registration of 37 international aid organizations at the beginning of the year [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-ban-on-37-aid-organizations-expected-to-have-devastating-impacts-across-palestine/feed/0One Excavator, 10,000 Bodies, a Sea of Rubble: Inside Gaza’s Effort to Retrieve and Bury Its Dead
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-excavator-10000-bodies-a-sea-of-rubble-inside-gazas-effort-to-retrieve-and-bury-its-dead/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-excavator-10000-bodies-a-sea-of-rubble-inside-gazas-effort-to-retrieve-and-bury-its-dead/#respondFri, 26 Dec 2025 19:20:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292798Fatima Salem waits outside anxiously, as rescue crews dig through the rubble of her family’s home in Gaza City on December 15th. With bated breath, she clings to the hope that all 60 of her family members – brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren – who were buried under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-excavator-10000-bodies-a-sea-of-rubble-inside-gazas-effort-to-retrieve-and-bury-its-dead/feed/0Gaza City’s Iconic Shuja’iyya Neighborhood No Longer Exists
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-citys-iconic-shujaiyya-neighborhood-no-longer-exists/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-citys-iconic-shujaiyya-neighborhood-no-longer-exists/#respondWed, 13 Aug 2025 18:34:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287246On Saturday, August 2, the Israeli army withdrew from the western parts of the al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood. One of the largest neighborhoods in Gaza City, al-Shuja’iyya had an estimated population of 120,000 people. The last evacuation order for the area was in April 2025, marking the seventh invasion of the neighborhood since the war began. As [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-citys-iconic-shujaiyya-neighborhood-no-longer-exists/feed/0‘It Looked Like a Large Prison’: Chaos Ensues at U.S.-Israeli-Backed Aid Distribution Site in Gaza
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-looked-like-a-large-prison-chaos-ensues-at-u-s-israeli-backed-aid-distribution-site-in-gaza/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-looked-like-a-large-prison-chaos-ensues-at-u-s-israeli-backed-aid-distribution-site-in-gaza/#respondWed, 28 May 2025 17:35:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284308On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli media published photos of a long queue lined up in barbed-wire-fenced passageways waiting to receive aid in Rafah. The harrowing scenes were part of the initial attempt by the U.S.-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to implement its project to distribute assistance to the residents of the Gaza Strip. After hours of [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-looked-like-a-large-prison-chaos-ensues-at-u-s-israeli-backed-aid-distribution-site-in-gaza/feed/0Massacred First Responders in Gaza Found Dead and Buried with Hands Bound
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/massacred-first-responders-in-gaza-found-dead-and-buried-with-hands-bound/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/massacred-first-responders-in-gaza-found-dead-and-buried-with-hands-bound/#respondFri, 04 Apr 2025 13:43:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282013At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Taghreed al-Attar sits next to her husband’s body, which was discovered last Friday in Rafah. Her husband, Anwar al-Attar, left with fellow first responders to Rafah the previous week, but no one returned. His wife says that when they lost contact with him, people told her he had been [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/massacred-first-responders-in-gaza-found-dead-and-buried-with-hands-bound/feed/0Palestinians Reject Trump’s Vision of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-reject-trumps-vision-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-reject-trumps-vision-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/#respondWed, 05 Feb 2025 19:38:51 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279349On Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. would take over Gaza and permanently relocate its Palestinian residents to neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for Gaza’s devastation, sat beside him and grinned as Trump answered a reporter about whether Palestinians would be allowed to [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-reject-trumps-vision-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/feed/0‘We Won’t Leave Our People’: The Medical Workers Refusing to Evacuate Central Gaza’s Last Functioning Hospital
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-leave-our-people-the-medical-workers-refusing-to-evacuate-central-gazas-last-functioning-hospital/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-leave-our-people-the-medical-workers-refusing-to-evacuate-central-gazas-last-functioning-hospital/#respondFri, 30 Aug 2024 15:36:34 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271579On August 21, the Israeli army ordered different areas in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes and newly-erected tents. This was the first step in the army’s invasion and campaign of destruction in Deir al-Balah, the last town that had not been completely leveled throughout the war. One of the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-leave-our-people-the-medical-workers-refusing-to-evacuate-central-gazas-last-functioning-hospital/feed/0Israel’s Starvation Policy in Gaza is Forcing People to Eat Tree Leaves
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-starvation-policy-in-gaza-is-forcing-people-to-eat-tree-leaves/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-starvation-policy-in-gaza-is-forcing-people-to-eat-tree-leaves/#respondTue, 09 Jul 2024 16:30:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269070Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount can hardly buy a single meal. The markets, now little more than bombed-out remains, are empty [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-starvation-policy-in-gaza-is-forcing-people-to-eat-tree-leaves/feed/0Israel’s Campaign of Starvation in Gaza Has Palestinians Eating Weeds to Survive
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-campaign-of-starvation-in-gaza-has-palestinians-eating-weeds-to-survive/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-campaign-of-starvation-in-gaza-has-palestinians-eating-weeds-to-survive/#respondSun, 07 Jul 2024 13:26:37 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268944Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount can hardly buy a single meal. The markets, now little more than bombed-out remains, are empty [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-campaign-of-starvation-in-gaza-has-palestinians-eating-weeds-to-survive/feed/0They Let Humanitarian Aid In. Then They Bombed It So That Gaza Would Starve.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-let-humanitarian-aid-in-then-they-bombed-it-so-that-gaza-would-starve/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-let-humanitarian-aid-in-then-they-bombed-it-so-that-gaza-would-starve/#respondSat, 28 Oct 2023 13:38:25 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1256549The following report is a consolidation of voice recordings sent by Mondoweiss Gaza Correspondent Tareq Hajjaj on October 25. The situation is more terrifying than any previous day. People have been standing in long lines outside bakeries to get a small bag of bread for hours — six hours, seven hours, every day. But in the last [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-let-humanitarian-aid-in-then-they-bombed-it-so-that-gaza-would-starve/feed/0
Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving a truck for the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) on April 6 when the Israeli army killed him in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Aslan was the main driver in a WHO convoy that was transporting injured Palestinian patients from Gaza to Egypt and other countries. The convoy already had [...]]]>
Palestinians returning to Gaza from Egypt report being beaten, tortured, and humiliated by Israeli border agents and pressured to collaborate with Israel as informants. Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing report systematic harassment, beatings, torture, and being told to leave Gaza with their families by Israeli border agents. Returnees who spoke to Mondoweiss described [...]]]>
Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah. Israel’s decision to cancel the registration of 37 international aid organizations at the beginning of the year [...]]]>
Fatima Salem waits outside anxiously, as rescue crews dig through the rubble of her family’s home in Gaza City on December 15th. With bated breath, she clings to the hope that all 60 of her family members – brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren – who were buried under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike [...]]]>
On Saturday, August 2, the Israeli army withdrew from the western parts of the al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood. One of the largest neighborhoods in Gaza City, al-Shuja’iyya had an estimated population of 120,000 people. The last evacuation order for the area was in April 2025, marking the seventh invasion of the neighborhood since the war began. As [...]]]>
On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli media published photos of a long queue lined up in barbed-wire-fenced passageways waiting to receive aid in Rafah. The harrowing scenes were part of the initial attempt by the U.S.-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to implement its project to distribute assistance to the residents of the Gaza Strip. After hours of [...]]]>
At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Taghreed al-Attar sits next to her husband’s body, which was discovered last Friday in Rafah. Her husband, Anwar al-Attar, left with fellow first responders to Rafah the previous week, but no one returned. His wife says that when they lost contact with him, people told her he had been [...]]]>
On Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. would take over Gaza and permanently relocate its Palestinian residents to neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for Gaza’s devastation, sat beside him and grinned as Trump answered a reporter about whether Palestinians would be allowed to [...]]]>
On August 21, the Israeli army ordered different areas in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes and newly-erected tents. This was the first step in the army’s invasion and campaign of destruction in Deir al-Balah, the last town that had not been completely leveled throughout the war. One of the [...]]]>
Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount can hardly buy a single meal. The markets, now little more than bombed-out remains, are empty [...]]]>
Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount can hardly buy a single meal. The markets, now little more than bombed-out remains, are empty [...]]]>
The following report is a consolidation of voice recordings sent by Mondoweiss Gaza Correspondent Tareq Hajjaj on October 25. The situation is more terrifying than any previous day. People have been standing in long lines outside bakeries to get a small bag of bread for hours — six hours, seven hours, every day. But in the last [...]]]>