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Amid Destroyed Health System, Gaza Sees Severe Outbreak of Autoimmune Disorder

Amid Destroyed Health System, Gaza Sees Severe Outbreak of Autoimmune Disorder

Guillain-Barré syndrome could be a manageable disease anywhere with proper treatment — but not in Gaza.

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Hend Salama Abo Helow

Recognizing Palestinian Statehood Is the Floor. Liberation Must Be the Ceiling.

Recognizing Palestinian Statehood Is the Floor. Liberation Must Be the Ceiling.

One by one, nations formally recognized the State of Palestine. But what does that mean with Gaza reduced to rubble?

18.10.2025 5

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Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Offer No Safety. Many Can’t Afford to Flee Anyway.

Displacement costs, which many call “the fees you pay to become homeless in the south,” have reached nearly $5,000.

07.10.2025 2

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15K Gaza Students Have Been Killed. Survivors Are Denied Their Education.

Israel has killed over 800 teachers and staff, along with 15,000 school-aged kids. Schools are in ruins.

14.09.2025 20

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Olive Trees Tie Palestinians to Our Homeland. Israel Treats Them as a Threat.

I gifted a bottle of olive oil to a doctor who visited Gaza on a medical mission. Israeli officers confiscated it.

26.08.2025 2

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We Often Return Home From Gaza Markets Empty-Handed — If We Return at All

Buyers and sellers alike struggle to survive under both siege and constant threat of Israeli airstrikes on the markets.

09.08.2025 7

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As a Medical Student in Gaza, I Studied Malnutrition. Now It’s All Around Me.

Before the genocide, malnutrition was a rare diagnosis. Now more than 2 million Gazans are forced to survive on nothing.

26.07.2025 6

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Internet Access Is a Lifeline for Us in Gaza — So Israel Attacked It

Communications blackouts aren’t accidental. They’re strategy. They’re the tool Israel uses to try to erase us quietly.

28.06.2025 4

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Displaced Again and Again, Gazans Ask: Where Do We Go?

Fear in Gaza has surged again after Israeli forces threatened to turn Khan Younis refugee camp into barren swaths.

08.06.2025 6

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Israel Destroyed My Medical School, But Students Like Me Pledge to Rebuild Gaza

Those of us who survived the genocide vow to carry the legacy of those martyred forward.

21.01.2025 5

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Hend Salama Abo Helow