Israel-Hamas: Strikes on Rafah, Washington judges IDF response “excessive”. A million Palestinians are half refugees.
“Gaza is no longer Gaza,” Palestinian Authority Culture Minister Atef Abou Seif told AFP. ‘Our goal is to bring a smile to everyone’s faces, to change their mood, to make them happy,’ says a 20-year-old Palestinian who sells roses there to lighten hearts. The war was sparked on October 7 when Hamas commandos infiltrated from the Gaza Strip.