By WAFAA SHURAFA and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.

UNRWA – the principal provider of aid, education, health and social services to Palestinian refugees across Gaza, the occupied West Bank and neighbouring countries for decades – strongly denied these allegations. Since Israel controls access to Gaza and the occupied West Bank, the ban crushed UNRWA’s operations in the Palestinian territory.

As 2025 draws to a close, Palestinians in Gaza are marking the new year not with celebration, but with exhaustion, grief and a fragile hope that their "endless nightmare" might finally end.

A storm has battered the Gaza Strip, creating misery for displaced Palestinians and delaying the search for the body of the last Israeli hostage held by militants there.

A sixth child has died in Gaza this month as Palestinians continue to endure dire living conditions linked to freezing rains and the devastation caused by the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced.

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during a solemn, spiritual service.

COGAT slams 'distorted and biased' report, says 500,000 tons of food has entered Strip since ceasefire, well over the enclave's nutritional requirements as stated by the IPC

Thousands of displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are struggling to keep themselves warm through harsh winter conditions as uncertainty rises around the implementation of the second phase of the ceasefire deal.

A joint report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA), published in the Palestinian Economic Moni