Rafah, Palestinian Territories — AFP Palestinian officials said a field hospital sent by Jordan has finally entered the Gaza Strip, the first since Israel’s war on Gaza erupted. “The hospital will be established in Khan Yunis, to receive the wounded and the sick, under catastrophic conditions which southern hospitals are expe...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of seeking to turn the Indonesian Hospital into a “mass grave.” At least 12 people were killed in Israeli shelling targeting the hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. The Interior Ministry in the blockaded enclave also said several people were killed and [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s National Defense Ministry on Monday said that it has sent an aircraft to Egypt to evacuate more than 100 patients from Gaza. The move came on a request from the Turkish Health Ministry, a National Defense Ministry statement said. “An A400M aircraft from the Turkish Air Force has been assigned to [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Ahmad Shabat, a 3-year-old Palestinian boy, calls for his mother at the Suhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip. Despite fleeing northern Gaza to the south, it is the third time that Ahmad has been targeted by Israeli airstrikes since the outbreak of the war on the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hundreds of people had to leave Gaza’s main hospital on Saturday after its director said Israel’s army had ordered evacuation of the facility where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by Israeli attacks. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees R...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The director of a Palestinian hospital was killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Gaza City late Friday, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency. The attack targeted the Al-Wafa Hospital for the Elderly Care in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, killing director Midhad Mhaisen, said WAFA, citing local...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, have arrived in Turkiye for treatment. Turkiye has sent a ship loaded with material for field hospitals, ambulances and generators to Egypt to treat civilians who have been able to flee Israel’s military assault on the besieg...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The United Nations and the Red Cross have voiced alarm after Israeli forces raided Gaza’s largest hospital, demanding that patients and civilians be protected. Israeli forces entered Al-Shifa hospital early Wednesday, targeting what they alleged was a “Hamas command centre” in tunnels b...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca met his Egyptian counterpart Khaled Abdel Ghaffar in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss aid supply to Gaza and the transfer of cancer patients to Türkiye. Koca arrived in the Egyptian capital earlier in the day and was received by Abdel Ghaffar and other officials. Last week, Koca [&helli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army carried out “explosions” in the basements of several buildings in the Al-Shifa Hospital complex after it was raided by Israeli forces on Wednesday, according to a medical source. “The Israeli army is the sole party firing inside the Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings,” th...
