Cairo, Egypt – AFP A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medic on Friday described unparallelled conditions in the Gaza Strip following a visit to the besieged territory in which he witnessed oversaturated hospitals and ever-closer bombardment. Enrico Vallaperta left Gaza after spending several weeks in the war-torn Palestinian territory for c...
GENEVA (AA) – Nearly 20,000 babies have been born during the current war in Gaza, while 135,000 children under age 2 are at “severe risk” of malnutrition, UNICEF has said. Noting that the number equals one baby born about every 10 minutes since October 7, Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson, told a press briefing in […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 350,000 chronically ill patients have not been receiving their medications due to the Israeli war since October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry has disclosed. The spokesperson for the ministry, Ashraf Al-Qudra, warned of serious health complications that may worsen the patients’ conditions, calling ...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Israel is consistently blocking humanitarian convoys into northern Gaza, making it increasingly difficult to bring desperately-needed fuel and other aid to hospitals there, the United Nations said Friday. After planning aid missions to the north, UN agencies said their convoys were subjected to slow and unpredic...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two medics were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Thursday. Israeli fighter jets struck an ambulance service center in the town of Hanine, leaving two medics dead, the Islamic Health Society (Hayaa) said in a statement. An ambulance was destroyed in the attack. Tensions have escalated along Lebanon’s border [&...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army breaking into a Palestinian clinic in the occupied West Bank and destroying its contents was “a brutal act,” the West Bank-based Palestinian health minister said on Wednesday. In a statement, Mai Alkaila said the Israeli army raided the clinic in the village of Al-Rashaida, east of ...
London, United Kingdom – – AFP A British-Palestinian doctor who worked in Gaza hospitals during the Israeli attacks hopes that testimony he has given to UK police will lead to prosecutions for war crimes. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a plastic surgeon specialising in conflict injuries, spent 43 days volunteering in the besieged Palestinian t...
Peshawar, Pakistan – AFP A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a ...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – A British doctor of Palestinian origin says that medical teams in the Gaza Strip are exhausted, dealing with large numbers of patients. “The medical staff (at the European Gaza Hospital in the city of Khan Younis) is very exhausted, and the emergency department always receives patients with difficult and complex ca...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip faces overwhelming challenges in patient care, with wooden boards used to cope with patients’ influx. The situation inside the facility is catastrophic, and the number of patients exceeds the number of beds by five times, the hospital’s spokesp...
