Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed the main surgical building at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, following four days of siege. Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed at least 65 Palestinians and wounded 92 people in the past 24 hours. The forces are reported to be targeting homes near the hospital, obstructing ambulances and rescue efforts. The...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday arrested several journalists at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to witnesses. “They were brutally beaten by Israeli forces, blindfolded and taken into custody,” an eyewitness to the latest attack on the hospital reported. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera television confirmed that its c...
Israeli forces stormed Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, marking the fourth raid since October. The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that more than 80 people, including medical staff and evacuees, were detained. The Israeli military alleges that Palestine resistance fighters had regrouped inside the hospital. But the Palestinian Media Off...
United Nations, United States – AFP A UN team visiting a Gaza hospital Friday reported seeing “a large number of gunshot wounds” among dozens of Palestinians being treated after Israeli troops opened fire at a food aid point. UN staff, the first to visit Gaza’s north in more than a week, spent just over two […]
London, United Kingdom – – AFP A British-Palestinian doctor who worked in Gaza hospitals during the Israeli attacks hopes that testimony he has given to UK police will lead to prosecutions for war crimes. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a plastic surgeon specialising in conflict injuries, spent 43 days volunteering in the besieged Palestinian t...
ANKARA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said only four hospitals are operating in northern Gaza, providing very limited care. WHO and UN mission to north Gaza found that Al-Ahli Arab Hospital is a “shell” of its former self due to lack of fuel, staff and supplies, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel faced mounting international pressure Monday over the rising civilian death toll and destruction of hospitals in Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza says Israel has killed more than 18,800 people, mostly women and children since October 7 when Hamas attacked its military check posts. It said dozens were...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Palestine (AA) – Families have turned to burying the bodies of their relatives killed in Israeli airstrikes in makeshift mass graves scattered throughout the Gaza Strip. The burials in makeshift graves are due to the difficulty of reaching cemeteries because of the continual bombardment. Palestinians interviewed by the med...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are currently “out of service”, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Thursday. He said medical teams are facing difficulties in work at the Al-Shifa Hospital. “Despite the difficulties, we will keep up attempts to run any hospital in the G...
BERLIN (AA) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday met with the German citizens who were recently evacuated from the Gaza Strip. Dr. Ahmed Abu Nada, chief of vascular surgery at Al-Shifa Hospital, told Anadolu that they had a good meeting, where they had the opportunity to inform President Steinmeier about the dire conditio...
