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A Palestinian mom mourns her son, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike simply over a month into the ceasefire, at Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, on Nov. 20, 2025.
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Editor’s observe: This story accommodates graphic photos of violence and demise.
GAZA STRIP — President Donald Trump promised an finish to Israel’s warfare in Gaza after he pushed Israel to conform to a ceasefire and Hamas to launch remaining Israeli hostages. The deal got here into impact on Oct. 10, 2025.
A 12 months later, nevertheless, there’s nonetheless no worldwide peacekeeping power in Gaza as promised and no reconstruction. Instead, Israel’s army has expanded its management to roughly 70% of Gaza, squeezing greater than 2 million Palestinians close to the ocean’s edge.
Israel has additionally continued focusing on Hamas all through the ceasefire. Those assaults have killed greater than 1,400 Palestinians this previous 12 months, practically 500 of them girls and kids, in line with Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Although the bombings haven’t stopped, they’ve slowed down in the course of the ceasefire.
That has given folks in Gaza an opportunity to recuperate from what U.N.-backed consultants declared was a famine within the north of the territory final 12 months. More meals is now getting into, reversing hunger throughout Gaza.
NPR’s reporter in Gaza, Anas Baba, has been capturing moments of respite and steady grief over the previous 12 months of the ceasefire. Below are a number of his pictures.
Palestinians returned to the ruins of Gaza City after Israeli forces withdrew and ended their floor operation on the primary day of the ceasefire, on Oct. 10, 2025.
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In Khan Younis, households greet Palestinian prisoners who have been freed in change for Israeli hostages on Oct. 13, 2025.
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At Al-Shifa Hospital on Oct. 23, 2025, Joud Al-Angar, 12, and his youthful cousin are coated in dime-sized scabs after they have been wounded by a chunk of shrapnel from an Israeli munition. They discovered it within the rubble and thought it was coal they might use to assist their household prepare dinner dinner.
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The our bodies of a number of folks, together with kids, are coated in shrouds at a morgue at Al-Shifa Hospital on Nov. 20, 2025, after Israeli airstrikes focused houses and tents.
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People examine the aftermath of a lethal Israeli airstrike that destroyed a house in Gaza City six weeks into the ceasefire on Nov. 20, 2025.
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A father and his son wade by means of flooded streets in Gaza City after choosing up humanitarian support on Nov. 25, 2025.
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Children put on digital actuality headsets as a part of a TechMed Gaza initiative that goals to assist present kids with psychosocial assist for trauma, in Al-Zuweida, Gaza, on Dec. 10, 2025.
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Saqer Al-Ankah holds his dying 10-year-old granddaughter, Bayan, in his arms at Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Dec. 10, 2025, after she was shot in her tent by Israeli troops who occupy northeast Gaza.
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Makeshift tents like these in Gaza City on Dec. 11, 2025, supply little safety from the winter chilly, however the U.N. says roughly 1.5 million folks have solely these for shelter after Israeli airstrikes destroyed practically all of the buildings within the warfare.
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Raed el-Ghazawi and his kids stand in a tent in Gaza City on Dec. 11, 2025. The household of 5 says the tent is freezing chilly and damp from winter rainstorms.
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On Dec. 17, 2025, Palestinian Christian kids embellish a Christmas tree contained in the Holy Family Church in Gaza City for the primary time because the starting of the warfare.
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Fresh produce returns to Gaza City’s streets on Dec. 23, 2025, after U.N.-backed consultants declared a famine there amid Israeli restrictions on support in the course of the warfare.
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Patients sit in a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City on Dec. 31, 2025, a day earlier than Israel banned greater than 40 worldwide support organizations from bringing in workers or support to Gaza.
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Palestinian feminine artists collect on the seashore in Gaza City for the primary time because the warfare started to color as a type of remedy, on Feb. 12, 2026.
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Palestinian rescue employees start the work of retrieving corpses from underneath the rubble of houses bombed by Israel in the course of the warfare in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on Feb. 16, 2026.
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The skeleton of Shawqi Abu Naser, 60, is retrieved from underneath the rubble on Feb. 16, 2026, greater than a 12 months after an Israeli airstrike killed 132 people from the same family in Beit Lahia.
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Palestinians collect in an open house in Gaza City for early morning prayers that mark the tip of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 20, 2026.
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A toddler smiles subsequent to a person dressed as a clown on the primary day of Eid al-Fitr, celebrations that mark the tip of Ramadan fasting, in Gaza City on March 20, 2026.
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A Palestinian boy shakes fingers with Hamas militants on the primary day of Eid al-Fitr, following the tip of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Gaza City on March 20, 2026.
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Palestinians stand subsequent to bins of U.N. meals support in an space that support teams want Israeli permission to enter in Jabalia, Gaza, on April 18, 2026.
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A yellow block positioned by Israeli forces marks the increasing territory managed by the army in Bureij, Gaza, on May 7, 2026. Palestinians are barred from getting into the realm.
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Young Palestinian chess gamers collect at a espresso store in Gaza City for the primary event because the begin of the warfare, on May 12, 2026.
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A Palestinian youngster carries jugs of water as he passes by a mural of Spanish soccer star Lamine Yamal that’s painted on the rubble of a house destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, in Al-Shati refugee camp, Gaza, on May 14, 2026.
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A constructing burns after an Israeli airstrike killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the chief of the army wing of Hamas, his spouse, his daughter and a neighbor in Gaza City on May 16, 2026.
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Children leap on a trampoline in the course of the Eid holidays on May 31, 2026, in Beit Lahia, which the Israeli army had deemed an “orange zone.” Aid organizations are restricted from getting into the realm.
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A toddler appears to be like right into a burned automobile that was focused in an Israeli airstrike on a busy avenue in Gaza City on June 22, 2026. A teenage lady who was going to search out web entry to take her ultimate exams was killed within the strike.
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A plume of smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike focused a house in Gaza City 9 months into the ceasefire on July 12, 2026.
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Thousands of displaced Palestinians collect underneath Egyptian flags amid the rubble in Gaza City for a public screening of Egypt’s match in opposition to Argentina within the World Cup on July 7, 2026.
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One-hundred corpses are wrapped in Palestinian flags in Gaza City on Aug. 4, 2026, after being retrieved from underneath the rubble of a constructing that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in October 2023.
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A Palestinian youngster whose brother was killed in an Israeli airstrike cries on the door of a morgue at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Aug. 19, 2026.
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Palestinian kids type a series for a world solidarity initiative known as Swim With Gaza that raises cash for swimming classes in Khan Younis on Aug. 25, 2026.
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A toddler’s toys are stained with blood in Gaza City on Sept. 1, 2026, following an Israeli operation to kidnap a Hamas safety officer. His household was killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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