The Israel-Hamas war|The attacks
Netanyahu's message: Israel's war cabinet is dissolved
Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves Israel's war cabinet, Haaretz writes. The decision was made on Sunday after a meeting with the security cabinet.
The war cabinet was established in connection with the war between Israel and Hamas starting in October last year.
The Prime Minister says he will continue to consult in a "limited forum" when it comes to sensitive decisions.
The announcement comes after opposition leader Benny Gantz chose to step down in protest against Netanyahu's policies linked to the war in Gaza.
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The Israel-Hamas warThe reactions
Norway gives 100 million in support to Unrwa
Norway gives 100 million Norwegian kroner, approximately 98 million Swedish kronor, in support of the UN Palestine organization Unrwa, writes VG. The announcement comes in connection with Unrwa head Philippe Lazzarin visiting Oslo.
Norway is one of the few countries that, unlike Sweden, the USA, Germany and Denmark, never stopped its support for UNRWA despite Israel's accusations of collusion with Hamas.
- Norway has underlined in recent months that it is unacceptable to punish an entire organization with 30,000 employees, and all the Palestinian refugees, for alleged atrocities committed by a small number of the organization's employees, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in April.
The Israel-Hamas War|The Victims
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Youssef Salem has lost 270 relatives during the war
173 of Youssef Salem's relatives died in two Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in mid-December. In the AP news agency's review of attacks between October and December, they have spoken to family members who lost almost everything in the war.
The two attacks, which hit an apartment building and a villa respectively, killed both children, pregnant women and the elderly in the Salem family.
- Nothing like this war, says Youssef to the news agency.
During the spring, around 100 more relatives have been killed in the fighting.
The news agency has also spoken to Mohamed Salem, Youssef's cousin, who survived the attacks in December.
- I saw the bodies of my uncles and cousins lying strewn on the floor, he says.
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Families are wiped out in Israel's attacks on Gaza
Entire families have been wiped out during the Israeli offensive in Gaza. This is reported by AP, which has reviewed deadly Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip between October and December.
The news agency has been able to identify over 60 Palestinian families who lost at least 25 family members in the attacks. Several families have no one left alive who can document the deaths.
The AP spoke with Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American historian at Columbia University who says the war in Gaza is deadlier than the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians.
- I don't think anything like this has happened in modern Palestinian history, he says.
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