At least 27,000 people have been displaced from southern Lebanon and the Bekaa region due to Israeli military attacks. Lebanon’s Environment Minister Nasser Yassin says these people have fled to open shelters across the country. He adds that approximately 252 public schools across the country have been converted into shelters for displac...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least seven Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a college building housing displaced people in Gaza City, a medical source confirmed. The attack targeted the Namaa College building, where hundreds of displaced Palestinians had taken shelter northwest of Gaza ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes targeting homes and a school sheltering displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. An Israeli drone hit a house in western Gaza City, killing five people, including two children and a woman, and injuring 15 […...
United Nations, United States — AFP The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza has said that 1.9 million people are now displaced in the battered territory, adding she was “deeply concerned” by reports of new evacuation orders for Khan Yunis. The United Nations has estimated that up to 250,000 people are impacted by the Israeli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 1.5 million displaced individuals in the Gaza Strip have contracted infectious diseases due to absence of waste and sewage disposal facilities because of the Israeli war on the besieged enclave. In a statement, the media office reported: “1,477,748 Palestinian displaced individuals have contracted inf...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Distress calls are coming in from people injured by Israeli attacks on Rafah in southern Gaza, but Israeli military vehicles are keeping rescuers out, says the Gaza Civil Defense Agency. “We’re getting distress calls from injured and trapped people in the Al Qarya as Suwaydiya area in western Rafah, but [&hell...
Washington, United States — AFP Israel has taken US concerns into account as it wages an unprecedented military operation in the battered Gaza city of Rafah, which is packed with refugees, a senior United States official has said. “It’s fair to say, I think the Israelis have updated their plans. They’ve incorporated man...
Rafah, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP Palestinians in Rafah have voiced despair as Israel dropped flyers ordering them to evacuate ahead of a long-threatened ground invasion.Palestine, Gaza, Rafah, Israel, safe zone, displaced people Israel’s army said it was instructing Palestinian families in eastern Rafah to flee in prep...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians taking refuge in Rafah refuse to leave the southern Gaza Strip city despite concerns of an impending Israeli ground invasion. More than a 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in attacks launched by the Israeli army on Rafah this week. Local sources report that Israeli warplanes carried out ...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia warned on Saturday of the repercussions of a possible Israeli incursion into the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the last refuge for displaced Palestinians, according to Saudi Press Agency. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has warned of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the c...
