GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The accumulation of garbage and waste is threatening the health of Palestinians struggling to survive in difficult conditions in Gaza, which has been under intense attacks by Israel for months. Due to the lack of municipal services, pollution crisis caused by garbage and other waste has deepened in Gaza, which...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization has said that it led two life-saving missions to transfer 32 critical patients, including two children, from Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza on February 18-19. “The high-risk missions were conducted in close partnership with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the United Natio...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 150 patients are crammed in rooms and corridors of the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation forces arrested 70 medical staff and refused to evacuate the patients for treatment in other hospitals, the Gaza Health Ministry said […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has turned Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip into military barracks, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday. “The Israeli army has arrested 70 medics at the facility,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement. The complex “cannot handle [&h...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories — AFP A climate of fear pervades a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where patients and doctors are reeling from last month’s deadly raid by Israeli agents disguised as medics. At the rehabilitation ward at Jenin’s Ibn Sina hospital, two patients recalled hearing the screams of a...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Doctors Without Borders on Friday described chaos and terror seen at a key Gaza hospital before its staff were forced to flee amid a raid by the Israeli army. In recent days, intense fighting has raged around the Nasser Hospital — one of the Palestinian territory’s last remaining major medical facili...
ATHENS (AA) – Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday warned that a Israel ground attack on Rafah in southern Gaza Strip would be “catastrophic.” “Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed. As aerial bombardment of the area continues, more than a million people, many livi...
ATHENS (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is deeply concerned about the situation in and around the Nasser hospital in Gaza, which has been surrounded by Israeli forces. “We’re deeply concerned about the safety of patients and health personnel due to the intensifying hostilities in the vicinity of the hospital. We repeat: h...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented 721 attacks by Israel on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7. To a question at a UN press conference, Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman, said some 357 of the attacks were carried out in the Gaza Strip in which 645 people were […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 340 Palestinian medics have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to Health Minister Mai Alkaila. “Health teams are facing serious violations in Gaza and the West Bank,” Alkaila said during a rally held outside the UN office in the West Bank city […]
