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...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the “best way” to ensure the safety of patients as well as civilians taking shelter at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital is not a risky evacuation but “stopping hostilities now.” At a UN press conference in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said t...
ANKARA (AA) – Health authorities in Gaza denied on Tuesday Israel’s claims that it was coordinating the transfer of incubators into the Gaza Strip, which could possibly enable the evacuation of newborn babies from Al-Shifa Hospital. Hundreds of patients and dozens of newborn babies, some of them premature, remain trapped as Israeli...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday that the Israeli army detained a Palestinian from inside an ambulance while on the way to a hospital. The Red Crescent said the incident took place in Tulkarem in the northern the occupied West Bank, and Israeli forces are hindering the work of medical […...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Gaza’s main hospital has been forced to bury scores of dead patients in a mass grave, its director said Tuesday. At least 179 people, including babies and patients who died in the intensive care unit, were buried in the “mass grave” at Gaza’s biggest hospital, said director Mohammad Abu ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Thousands of people remained trapped in Gaza’s largest hospital Monday, where evacuations have been hampered by Israeli attacks. Conditions are worsening for hundreds of patients and thousands of others sheltering around Al-Shifa hospital — which has become the focus in the five-week-old war. The...
