Karin Laub

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 photo, Palestinian woman washes clothes as she sits in front of the rubble of her family house in Khuzaa, southern of Gaza Strip. More than five weeks after the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed or badly damaged in the fighting still live in classrooms, storefronts and other crowded shelters. Yet despite their pressing needs, reconstruction efforts appear stymied by a continued Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of Gaza and an unresolved power struggle between the Islamic militant group Hamas and Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Cost to rebuild Gaza? $4 billion, political will

Karin Laub · October 5, 2014 2:07 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, President Mahmoud Abbas, of Palestine, addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. The Palestinians are asking the U.N. Security Council to set a deadline of November 2016 for an Israeli withdrawal from all Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 including East Jerusalem in a new push to achieve independence. The circulation of the draft resolution to council members follows Abbas' announcement to the U.N. General Assembly last Friday that he would ask the council to set a deadline for a pullout and dictate the ground rules for any talks with Israel.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Abbas to seek $4 billion for Gaza reconstruction

Karin Laub · October 3, 2014 6:22 pm

Jordan acquits radical cleric of terrorism charges

Karin Laub · September 24, 2014 10:49 am

File - In this Thursday, April 24, 2014. file photo, Palestinian farmers harvest wheat on a farm near the West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian economy is expected to contract for the first time in seven years in 2014, shrinking by 4 percent, the result of the recent Gaza war, continued Israeli and Egyptian restrictions on Palestinian trade and a drop in foreign aid, the World Bank said Tuesday. The bank issued the report ahead of a meeting next week of donor nations to the Palestinians on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas, File)

World Bank: Palestinian economy to shrink in 2014

Karin Laub · September 16, 2014 3:28 pm

In this Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 photo, Mouin Quishta holds photographs of his daughter Shahed, 8, who was killed on July 22, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Almost a month after her death from what her father says was an Israeli tank shell, her family remains paralyzed by grief. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

In Gaza, emotional wounds of war remain unhealed

Karin Laub · August 18, 2014 10:20 am

In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 photo, Ibrahim al-Telbani, left, and Ahmad Baraka inspect the damaged and burned Al Awda snack food factory in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Factory owner, Mohammed al-Telbani, lost his life's work during the Gaza war after Israeli shells slammed into his four-story factory, one of Gaza's largest, sparking a fire that engulfed vats of margarine and sacks of cocoa powder. Al-Telbani and others in Gaza say anything short of a complete opening of Gaza's borders, after seven years of closure by Israel and Egypt, will do little to change their lives. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

7-year-old Gaza closure key in Israel-Hamas talks

Karin Laub · August 11, 2014 7:25 pm

Palestinians return to the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

In brief lull, Gaza’s displaced survey devastation

Karin Laub · August 1, 2014 1:46 pm

Palestinian Ahmed Jadallah, centre, 75, prepares a child's body for burial at the morgue of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Over the past three decades, the 75-year-old Jadallah has dressed hundreds of 'martyrs' _ those killed in conflict with Israel. He said his volunteer work fulfills an Islamic commandment and that he hopes it will earn him a place in paradise. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Busy Gaza morgue performs Muslim burial rituals

Karin Laub · July 24, 2014 8:28 pm

FILE - In this Monday, July 21, 2014, file photo, a Palestinian family watches rescuers searching for bodies and survivors under the rubble of homes which were destroyed by an Israeli missile strike, in Gaza City. Disagreement over whether to lift the Gaza blockade is a key stumbling block to ending more than two weeks of fighting between the Islamic militant Hamas and Israel. Some in Gaza say they would rather endure more fighting than return to life under blockade. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Gaza blockade key to any Israel-Hamas truce deal

Karin Laub · July 22, 2014 7:47 pm

Smoke from an Israeli strike rises over Gaza City, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. A police spokesman said Israeli aircraft have hit dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip, including the home of the late leader of Hamas' military wing, several mosques and a football stadium. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israeli aircraft hit more than 70 targets in Gaza

Karin Laub · July 22, 2014 5:36 am

Palestinian medics carry a wounded woman to an emergency room at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Sunday, July 20, 2014. In the heart of Gaza City, as its citizen again find themselves under fire from Israeli airstrikes and artillery, the wounded and their wailing families stream into Shifa Hospital without end. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Amid bloodshed, frenetic Gaza hospital improvises

Karin Laub · July 21, 2014 12:18 am

In this Monday, July 14, 2014 photo, sisters Mariam Attar, center right, and Sada Attar, center left, rest with their children inside the New Gaza Boys United Nations School after fleeing their home in fear of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their neighborhood in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Scars show as Gaza’s children endure third war

Karin Laub · July 15, 2014 6:21 pm