Nidal al-Mughrabi
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
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Life Before Settling Down, Gaza Couples Get U.S.-Style Marriage Help
(Reuters) – Hesitant but curious, several Palestinian couples walked into a classroom in Gaza this week to attend the first marriage guidance program in the conservative, Hamas-run enclave. The initiative, backed by three Palestinian ministries, the Islamic University and British-based charity Interpal, is designed to prepare young couples for married life, including religious, legal, medical…
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Fast Forward IDF Air Strike in Gaza Kills Palestinian Terrorist — Israel
GAZA – An Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday who the military said planned to detonate a bomb at the border with Israel, and a Palestinian militant faction said one of its men was killed. Local residents in the Hamas Islamist-run enclave said the incident occurred on a…
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Fast Forward Gaza Gets First New Hospitals in a Decade
GAZA — The Gaza Strip’s struggling healthcare system will get some much needed help in 2016 after the first new hospital in a decade opened its doors in the territory last month and as two more foreign-funded clinics are set to launch this year. After nearly five years of construction, with delays caused by fighting…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Hope for Telecom Upgrade — Gaza Stuck in 2G
More than a decade after Israel and Europe rolled out 3G, Palestinians are preparing for the introduction of the mobile network, hoping better Internet access will give their economy a boost. With 4.6 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, a burgeoning Internet sector and a very high usage of social media platforms such…
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Life Pirouettes and Plenty of Pink at Gaza’s Only Ballet School
The group of girls, ponytailed and dressed in pink, stretched their arms out to the sides and pivoted onto their toes, trying desperately to hold still. Eagle-eyed, the instructor surveyed Gaza’s latest crop of would-be ballerinas. Fifty girls aged five to eight are now enrolled in the ballet school at the Al-Qattan Center for Children…
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Fast Forward Gaza Girls Pirouette in Pink at Only Ballet School
The group of girls, ponytailed and dressed in pink, stretched their arms out to the sides and pivoted onto their toes, trying desperately to hold still. Eagle-eyed, the instructor surveyed Gaza’s latest crop of would-be ballerinas. Fifty girls aged five to eight are now enrolled in the ballet school at the Al-Qattan Center for Children…
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Fast Forward Desperate Palestinians Eye Risky Jump Over Gaza Fence
From his spartan room in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, 18-year-old Abdalla al-Haddad could glimpse a narrow chance at a better life: it was less than a mile and a 3-1/2-meter fence away. So on a chilly night in February, he and a friend made a dash for it, scrambling over the…
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Fast Forward Hamas May Seek Long-Term Truce With Israel
It’s not quite a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but shared concern over Islamic State-inspired militant groups in Gaza could help redraw complex relationships between Hamas and a hostile Egypt and Israel. Talk is rampant in the territory of 1.8 million of a prospective pullback from confrontation with Israel –…
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