Palestinian Territories — AFP Gaza’s health ministry has said that 200 patients were evacuated from a hospital with the help of the Red Cross just hours after it was hit by a deadly Israeli strike. Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra revealed that 200 people were evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in Jabaliya and taken by...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of seeking to turn the Indonesian Hospital into a “mass grave.” At least 12 people were killed in Israeli shelling targeting the hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. The Interior Ministry in the blockaded enclave also said several people were killed and [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for an “illusion” at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Hamas has said. “Netanyahu and his war cabinet are looking for a mirage that indicates their inability and hollow arrogance,” Abu Obaida, a spokesman for the Palestinian group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigad...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli troops carried out building-by-building searches at Gaza’s main hospital on Friday, after a communications blackout in the Palestinian territory compounded fears for civilians trapped inside the facility. Al-Shifa hospital has become a focal point for Israeli operations in northern Gaza since sold...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said on Thursday its troops had taken “operational control” of Gaza City’s port. “In the past few days, in a joint operation, soldiers… took operational control of the Gaza harbour, which was controlled by the Hamas terrorist organisation,” the Israeli army s...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The United Nations and the Red Cross have voiced alarm after Israeli forces raided Gaza’s largest hospital, demanding that patients and civilians be protected. Israeli forces entered Al-Shifa hospital early Wednesday, targeting what they alleged was a “Hamas command centre” in tunnels b...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the “best way” to ensure the safety of patients as well as civilians taking shelter at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital is not a risky evacuation but “stopping hostilities now.” At a UN press conference in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The death toll from a power outage at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has risen to 15, including six premature babies, the hospital director said Monday. “Six premature babies and nine injured people at the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) died today as a result of the power outage,” Mohamed Abu […]
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...
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...
