Wafaa Shurafa
Wafaa Shurafa is an author at Religion News Service.
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Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis
By Wafaa Shurafa, Lee Keath, and Jack Jeffery — November 17, 2023
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 11,470 Palestinians have been killed, two-thirds of them women and minors, according to Palestinian health authorities.
After weeks in besieged Gaza, some foreign nationals and wounded Palestinians are allowed to leave
By Najib Jobain, Lee Keath, and Jack Jeffery — November 1, 2023
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The isolated Palestinian enclave, home to 2.3 million people, is in the grip of a severe humanitarian crisis.
Israel pushes deeper into Gaza and frees Hamas captive; Netanyahu rejects calls for cease-fire
By Najib Jobain, Lee Keath, and Samy Magdy — October 30, 2023
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Gaza Health Ministry later said three people were killed in the car that was hit. The Israeli military declined to comment on where its forces were deployed.
UN warns Gaza blockade could force it to sharply cut relief missions as Israeli bombings rise
By Najib Jobain, Lee Keath, and Samy Magdy — October 25, 2023
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. says about 1.4 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are now internally displaced, with almost 600,000 crowded into U.N. shelters.
Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protection
By Lee Keath — November 16, 2021
The Taliban, Sunni hard-liners who for decades targeted the Hazaras as heretics, are now their only protection against a more brutal enemy: the Islamic State group.
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