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Ruins and hunger: Gaza weeps in silence

Ruins and hunger: Gaza weeps in silence
A displaced Palestinian boy carries a container of water after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war, in the central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS
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Gaza lies in ruins. The city that once pulsed with life, its markets, its laughter, its evening calls to prayer, is now a landscape of broken concrete and silence. Buildings lie crushed, streets are buried in dust, and the air smells of smoke and sorrow. Families wander through the ruins, calling the names of loved ones who no longer answer.

Smoke rises following explosions in Gaza City after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, as seen from central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS

Hospitals are overwhelmed, doctors working by flashlight as fuel runs out and supplies disappear. Mothers cradle starving children, fathers dig through the rubble with bare hands, hoping for a miracle that never comes. Beyond the ruins and rubble, a deeper agony runs through the city: hunger and the desperate search for clean water.

People carry an injured man on a stretcher, as Palestinians inspect the damage at a residential neighborhood, following an Israeli operation in the area, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war, in Gaza City October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS

And still, the bombs fall. Israel has declared Gaza City a “combat zone,” but for those trapped inside, it feels more like a graveyard. Amid the wreckage, people whisper prayers, not for victory, but simply for the chance to see another dawn.

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