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| Today’s Mass at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza — the first day of the ceasefire, 736 days of nonstop prayers and unshakable faith. |
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Today’s Mass at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza — the first day of the ceasefire, 736 days of nonstop prayers and unshakable faith.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
"UNRWA has food, medicines + other basic supplies ready to go to Gaza. We have enough to provide food for the entire population for the coming three months. Our teams in Gaza are crucial for the implementation of this agreement including to provide basic services like healthcare + education. There are over 660,000 children who are eagerly waiting to go back to school. UNRWA teachers stand ready to help them fulfill that. I call on all member states to support UNRWA to do its work to assist people in need in the coming critical period." Philippe Lazzarini
The agreement to finally secure a ceasefire in #Gaza & release the hostages is a huge relief.
It will bring respite to people who survived the worst bombardment, displacement, loss and grief for two long years.
After their excruciating ordeal, hostages & Palestinian detainees will finally join their families.
@UNRWA has food, medicines + other basic supplies ready to go to Gaza.
We have enough to provide food for the entire population for the coming three months.
Our teams in #Gaza are crucial for the implementation of this agreement including to provide basic services like healthcare + education.
There are over 660,000 children who are eagerly waiting to go back to school.
UNRWA teachers stand ready to help them fulfill that.
I call on all member states to support UNRWA to do its work to assist people in need in the coming critical period.
UNRWA
For two years too long, humanitarian workers have been killed in #Gaza.
UNRWA mourns 562 aid workers killed in #Gaza since 7 October 2023, among them 370 from UNRWA.
They were killed while at home with their families.
They were killed while on duty.
They were civilians and should have been protected according to the laws of war.
UNRWA
Children belong in school, not in the rubble.
In #Gaza, around 90% of UNRWA schools were hit or damaged, many while sheltering displaced families.
Nearly 660,000 children are forced out of school for the third year in a row. Half of them used to go to UNRWA schools.
UNRWA
"It would take UNRWA just about 3 hours to get trucks to the borders and then get much needed supplies directly to desperate people in #Gaza” our Juliette Touma tells NPR https://x.com/i/status/1975926687805166015
For over 7 months now, the Israeli Authorities have blocked UNRWA from bringing any supplies in.
Our services in Gaza have meanwhile continued thanks to 12,000 UNRWA workers who have not stopped for a day since the war began two years ago.
The siege must be lifted, and the crossings must open.
"This ceasefire is just the beginning of a long road ahead, a road toward a future free from both the occupation and Hamas. No more being dragged into wars or turned into pawns in the games of others. For too long, Palestinians have been caught between oppression and exploitation, crushed by occupation, silenced by militias, and spoken for by those who never cared to listen. That chapter must end here. The only path forward is rebuilding our nation and working toward a two-state solution where Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side, in freedom, dignity, and peace. What remains is the hard, honest work of building a real future, one shaped not by slogans or weapons, but by the will of a people who have suffered enough and still dare to hope." Ihab Hassan
"This ceasefire is just the beginning of a long road ahead, a road toward a future free from both the occupation and Hamas.
No more being dragged into wars or turned into pawns in the games of others.
For too long, Palestinians have been caught between oppression and exploitation, crushed by occupation, silenced by militias, and spoken for by those who never cared to listen. That chapter must end here.
The only path forward is rebuilding our nation and working toward a two-state solution where Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side, in freedom, dignity, and peace.
What remains is the hard, honest work of building a real future, one shaped not by slogans or weapons, but by the will of a people who have suffered enough and still dare to hope."
GAZA:
734 days.
67,183 killed.
169,841 injured.
83% of Gaza’s infrastructure destroyed.
90% of its buildings reduced to rubble.
296 schools wiped out.
All universities destroyed.
134 hospitals and health centers reduced to ruins.
Over 1.6 million people left homeless and displaced.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory- IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble
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| Students doing their homework amid the rubble of buildings in Khan Younis in September 2024. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images |
Tue 7 Oct 2025 06.35 EDT
The devastating war in Gaza has entered its third year, standing as Israel’s longest war since the 1948 conflict that led to the country’s creation.
The majority of those killed by Israel’s offensive in the strip have been civilians, and the overall total now exceeds 67,000. Entire families have been wiped out in a single airstrike. Sometimes, only a single individual, frequently a child, is left alive. There are also nearly 170,000 injured. In all, casualties amount to roughly 10% of Gaza’s pre-war population of 2.3 million.
There may well be many more dead uncounted in the rubble that now covers much of Gaza. Those killed by untreated illnesses, poor nutrition, suicide or other causes linked to the conflict are more numerous still. Thousands of people have simply disappeared – lost, incinerated or blown apart by explosions, or held in secret detention by Israel.
Israel has controlled and restricted supplies going into Gaza throughout the conflict but imposed a total blockade of supplies from March to May 2025, saying that Hamas was stealing assistance to pay for its military operations. Though restrictions were eventually eased amid international outrage, famine was declared in parts of Gaza in August.
The impact of Israel’s offensive on Gaza has led to accusations of genocide, which Israel has denied. In September, independent experts working for the UN high commissioner for human rights said that the death toll and destruction in Gaza met its criteria for a genocide. This, too, was challenged by Israel.
The war, triggered by a Hamas raid into Israel on 7 October 2023 which killed approximately 1,200 people and took a further 251 as hostages, has devastated Gaza, in physical and human terms. Almost all Palestinians in the territory have been displaced, usually many times. Entire cities have been reduced to dust and broken concrete. Witnesses of attacks, or victims of the violence around some food distribution sites, or medics in overwhelmed hospitals describe “post-apocalyptic landscapes” or “hell on earth”... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/07/the-ruin-of-gaza-how-israel-two-year-assault-has-devastated-the-territory?CMP=GTUS_email