Among ruins and improvised markets, after the fighting, families celebrate reunions and try to return home, to restart their lives, despite many having lost everything, including their homes.
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Agreement under tension
The ceasefire, negotiated by the United States through the Donald Trump’s peace is at risk: Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas continue to exchange accusations of breaking this climate of peace.
To date, Hamas has released 20 Israeli hostages in exchange for almost two thousand Palestinian prisoners. He also returned some of the bodies of those who they didn’t survive.
Due to the delay in returning the hostages, Israel reduced the entry of humanitarian aid (such as the Red Cross and UNICEF, which help distribute food and treat the injured), which made the situation even worse.
Help needed!
The Gaza Strip is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian and health crises in its history. The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that this situation is a “health and humanitarian catastrophe”, which could last several years.
According to the United Nations, 92% of the city’s buildings were damaged or destroyed. There is a lack of energy, food, water, sanitation and functioning hospitals, which which makes it very difficult to live there.
Red Cross in Gaza
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Despite the ceasefire, humanitarian aid remains insufficient: 600 trucks are needed per day, but only 200 to 300 are able to enter the territory.
Urgent but unstable peace
This war began in October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and took hostages. In response, Israel launched air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of people died. Since then, several countries have tried to broker an agreement.
The ceasefire is part of a multi-phase peace plan. The first foresees the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of humanitarian aid, such as food, water and medicine. The following phases include the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the reconstruction of cities destroyed by the war.
Donald Trump shows the agreement signed at the Egypt summit
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Attempts at dialogue continue to take place. The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, traveled to Israel and Egypt to participate in the Peace Summit, where the reconstruction of Gaza and the future of the territory. But the first-Israeli minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has already warned that “the fight is not over yet”.
And so, in the midst of hope, the fear that peace won’t last long…
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The Gaza Strip is…
A small strip of territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Middle East. Together with the West Bank, it forms what is recognized as the State of Palestine, although the two territories are separated from each other.
Gaza is around 40 kilometers long and 16 kilometers wide, a relatively small area, slightly smaller than the island of Madeira. It borders Israel to the east and north, Egypt to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
Before the war (which is part of a conflict that has lasted for decades)around two and a half million people lived there, in one of the most densely populated places in the world.