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EXPLAINED: Inside the ramallah hotel housing gaza s cancer patients | Rare Historical Photos

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Since 2017, the Retno Hotel has housed patients and their family members from Gaza during their medical visits [Al Jazeera]

Ramallah, occupied West Bank — For more than 16 months, loss and grief have stalked the granite-floored corridors of the Retno Hotel.

On the evening of October 6, 2023, the family-run hotel was close to full occupancy. A few of the 70 or so guests were Palestinian Americans but most were from Gaza. Expecting to return home soon, they had brought just enough clothes for a week’s stay.

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