Palestinian Territories – AFP The hospitals in the centre of the heaviest north Gaza fighting have been forced out of service amid shortages and combat, the health ministry said Monday, adding the number of patients dying in the biggest medical centre had risen. UN agencies and doctors inside the facility warned the effects of the [&hell...
The death toll in Sunday’s Israeli attack on a home in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, rose to 31 on Monday, according to media reports. Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry reported that six premature babies and nine patients had died since electrical shortages began affecting al-Shifa Hospital. Gaza’s two largest hospitals, al-Shifa and al...
ANKARA (AA) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a humanitarian healthcare organization, has said that the majority of the young Palestinians it received at Jenin Hospital in the West Bank had life-threatening bullet wounds in their abdomens and lower thighs. “Most of the patients we receive have been shot in the abdomen and legs,” Dr...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli attacks raged around Gaza’s biggest hospital Sunday where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital is caught in Israel’s ground offensive aimed at “destroying Hamas”, and the compound has been repeatedly hit by...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated its confidence in the death toll reported by the health ministry in Gaza. The ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel started bombarding the territory – in response to the 7 October Hamas attacks that killed about 1,200 people in Israel. Speaking [&hel...
Israel has destroyed the cardiac ward of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, while al-Quds hospital has suspended services after running out of fuel, according to media reports. Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says Israeli forces “are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has admitted that it targeted the Buraq School in the blockaded Gaza Strip where dozens of civilians were killed. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement that the military killed Hamas members who “held about a thousand residents of the Gaza Strip hostage in the Rantisi hospital [&hellip...
London, United Kingdom – – AFP Huge crowds marched through the British capital on Saturday, calling for a halt to Israel’s attacks in Palestine. The “National March for Palestine”, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, set off after a two-minutes’ silence to remember Britain’s war dead on Armistice ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has detained and suspended a high school teacher for speaking out against Israeli forces’ raping Palestinian women. “A high school teacher was detained and suspended from his job on the grounds that he accused Israeli soldiers of raping Palestinian women and legitimized the attacks of Hamas on October 7,” th...
GENEVA (AA) – European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic has demanded that hospitals in Gaza be protected, calling for an immediate de-escalation of hostilities. “The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is beyond words,” Lenarcic said on social media platform X, adding, “I urge the warring parties to de-escalate ...
