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An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows Palestinians walking through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, January 21, 2025
PALESTINIANS in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of Israeli destruction.
Across the tiny coastal enclave, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, drone footage shows mounds of rubble stretching as far as the horizon.
“As you can see, it became a ghost town,” said Hussein Barakat, 38, whose home in the southern city of Rafah was flattened.
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
