Israeli strikes killed 107 Palestinians and left 176 wounded in 24 hours. Palestinian medics say Israeli forces targeted Rafah in southern Gaza, killing 30 civilians. Despite warnings from international leaders, Israel continues bombing Rafah. It is planning a ground invasion of southern Gaza, which currently houses about 1.4 million displac...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens in Gaza overnight Thursday-Friday, sources on both sides said on the 98th day of the war on the Palestinian enclave. An AFP journalist reported strikes and artillery shelling hit areas between the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah, which is crowded with people who fled fro...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Amid dire warnings of food shortages and mass displacement in Gaza as a winter chill sets in, aid group Oxfam has warned that the plight of trapped Palestinians “is not just a catastrophe, it’s apocalyptic”. Palestinian resistance groups reported fighting in Jabalia and Gaza City’s Sh...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority said on Thursday. Khaled Abu Samra, a doctor at Al-Shia Hospital, also told Anadolu that Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of the hospital, has been detained by the Israeli army. “The occupati...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Fuel shortages, a lack of water and worsening sanitation in Gaza, along with attacks on health care and mass displacement, are creating “a perfect storm for tragedy”, the UN warned Tuesday. Here are some key numbers highlighted by the United Nations: – Impact on children – Israel’s ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The World Health Organization said it had led an assessment mission to Al-Shifa hospital — Gaza’s largest and the focal point of the war in past days — and determined it was a “death zone”, urging a full evacuation. The United Nations health agency said it was developing an evacuat...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Saturday forcibly evacuated about 500 patients from Al-Shifa Hospital, including those who had been injured by its extensive onslaughts, and left them to meet their fate on the streets, the government’s media office in the Gaza Strip said. The Israeli army had given all those inside the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hundreds of people had to leave Gaza’s main hospital on Saturday after its director said Israel’s army had ordered evacuation of the facility where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by Israeli attacks. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees R...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has agreed to allow two fuel trucks a day into Gaza, Israeli officials said Friday, after the UN warned shortages had halted aid deliveries and put people at risk of starvation. In response to a US request, Israel’s war cabinet unanimously decided to allow “the entry of two diesel fuel [&h...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Communications with Gaza were severed once again, with network provider Paltel saying it was because “all energy sources sustaining the network have been depleted, and fuel was not allowed in”. The United Nations warned the outage would compound the misery of civilians, complicating efforts to di...
