WASHINGTON (AA) – The US is “aware of reports and still gathering information” about the Israeli detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, said the State Department on Monday. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Israeli forces arrested Abu Safiya in northern Gaza, and other s...
ANKARA (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) director-general has called on Israel to stop attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X that “Hospitals in #Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat.” He stressed that the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza w...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A private Israeli broadcaster, in an investigative report aired late Saturday, said a bomb was planted in Ismail Haniyeh’s room in his Tehran residence. Haniyeh was killed inside his residence during a visit to Tehran on July 31. The assassination was carried out with a “precision bomb” placed inside Haniyeh&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A 20-day-old baby died on Sunday due to severe cold and a lack of heating in refugee tents in the central Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said. The infant, Jumaa al-Batran, “passed away due to the intense cold” in Deir al-Balah city, the ministry explained in a statement. “His twin […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli soldiers, operating in the heavily besieged area of the northern Gaza Strip, posted footage on social media Saturday showing homes in the town of Beit Hanoun being set on fire, accompanied by the racist song “Let your village burn.” The soldiers, part of the military’s 92nd Battalion, were filmed t...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Israel’s over 80-day siege of northern Gaza endangers the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians still in the area, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement. The UN agency’s statement came after Israel’s attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital resulted in the loss of the last fully functioning medical facility in [&he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas has denied Israeli claims about the presence of its fighters inside a hospital that was raided by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia on Friday, burning large sections and forcing patients and displaced civilians to […]
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that an Israeli raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital put “the last major health facility” in the northern Gaza Strip out of service, calling for an end to “this horror.” Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burned and destroyed d...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Freezing temperatures have killed three Palestinian babies in the Gaza Strip amid an Israeli siege, according to officials and local media. A three-week-old baby girl lost her life in a tent encampment in al-Mawasi in the southern city of Khan Younis on Wednesday, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, the director general of [&...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 38 more Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, pushing up the death toll since October last year to 45,399, the Health Ministry in the enclave said. A ministry statement added that some 107,940 others have been injured. “Israeli forces killed 38 people and injured 137 others in […]
