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Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 39 people and injured 105 in last 24 hours, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.

More Palestinians have succumbed to their burn wounds after an Israeli strike hit their shelter in Gaza City overnight, raising the death toll there to at least 13, with reports of six people remaining under the rubble.

The school-turned-shelter was one of several sites hit in Gaza on Wednesday. Gaza’s civil defence said four more bodies were pulled from two nearby homes.

Since Israel resumed its war on Gaza in March, it has quietly removed the Al Mawasi safe zone from its maps. Despite this, Israel is continuing to force Palestinians to move to the area as it carves up more of Gaza. Soraya Lennie explains what’s going on.

The Israeli military bombed a school sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinian families in Gaza city, killing at least 10 people including a child that burned to death. There have been multiple attacks on tent encampments across Gaza in the past week that killed over 60 Palestinians.

Harare, Zimbabwe – Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s.

The then-51-year-old white commercial farmer was not just losing his land; he was leaving behind hundreds of workers and their families, many of whom he had known since childhood.

“We cried,” the 75-year-old told Al Jazeera.

On the morning of September 18, 2001,…