The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is calling for “humanitarian pauses” to provide children in Gaza with a second dose of polio vaccines. Around 560,000 Palestinian children under 10 received the first dose as part of a polio vaccination campaign from September 1 to 12. According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedro...
The Palestinian Health Ministry has released the names of 34,344 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since October 7. The list includes the names of 11,983 minors under the age of 18. It also has the names of 710 infants under a year old and 2,734 people over the age of 60 who […]
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza. “The resistance has a high ability to continue,” Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. “There were martyrs...
MADRID (AA) – A large group of people staged a demonstration Sunday in support of Palestine in the Spanish capital Madrid. Responding to a call from civil society organizations, the crowd gathered at Sol Square, waving Palestinian flags and wearing Palestinian scarves. They protested Israel’s killing of over 40,000 people in Gaza in the ...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Six Palestinians, including two children and a woman, were killed late Sunday in an airstrike by an Israeli fighter jet on a house in Gaza City. Gaza’s civil defense agency said on Telegram that the six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli aerial attack targeting a house in the Shamm’a area. […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip, including a school housing displaced people in Beit Hanoun. An Israeli strike on a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighborhood east of the city killed five Palestinians and injured...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian paramedic was killed in an Israeli prison following his arrest at a medical complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, said the local health ministry. The ministry confirmed the death of medic Hamdan Abu Anaba while in Israeli detention. Anaba and his colleagues were arrested while [&hell...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP A senior UN official said Saturday that teachers and other UN staff working in Gaza fear they are now targets after an Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in the territory this week. Wednesday’s strike on the UN-run Al-Jawni School in central Gaza, which is housing displaced Palestinians, kille...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed five Palestinians in an attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas militants. Thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war, now in its 12th month, have sought shelter in the Shuhada al-Zeitun school, said Mahmud Bassa...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 560,000 children in Gaza were vaccinated against polio in the first round, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. “Over 560,000 children aged below ten years of age were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign in Gaza, which was completed yesterday,”...
