Dolow, Somalia – – AFP The floodwaters in the southwestern Somali district of Dolow may have started to recede — for now — but distraught families who have lost their homes and livelihoods in the muddy deluge are now at risk of potentially fatal diseases. Shukri Abdi Osman, a 34-year-old mother of three, is sheltering [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Around 1,600 Israeli soldiers have been left physically disabled since Israel began its war against Palestinians living in Gaza last month, according to a veterans’ organization. “Some 1,600 soldiers (have) suffered physical disabilities since Oct. 7,” Idan Kleiman, chairman of the army’s Disabled Veterans Organization, told A...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Gaza’s health ministry has said that 200 patients were evacuated from a hospital with the help of the Red Cross just hours after it was hit by a deadly Israeli strike. Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra revealed that 200 people were evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in Jabaliya and taken by...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Fuel shortages, a lack of water and worsening sanitation in Gaza, along with attacks on health care and mass displacement, are creating “a perfect storm for tragedy”, the UN warned Tuesday. Here are some key numbers highlighted by the United Nations: – Impact on children – Israel’s ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip are not in any better condition than others in the besieged enclave, Gaza’s health ministry spokesperson told Anadolu. The Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital does not properly provide health care because it has lost its resources and is about to run out of fuel, said […]
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...
