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) – There has been significant progress in talks to release Israelis captured by Hamas, Israeli media reported Friday. An informed source told the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation Friday that there has been significant progress in talks to release the Israelis. “There is significant progress in the deal to rel...
ANKARA (AA) – French president Emmanuel Macron urged Israel on Friday to stop “killing babies and women” in Gaza. It is important for Israel’s security to “recognize that all lives matter,” Macron told the BBC at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris. He hoped that other leaders would join his demand for a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The electricity was cut off at the Indonesian Hospital in the Jabalia region in northern Gaza, where thousands of displaced Palestinians, as well as the wounded and sick, are taking shelter, according to the Health Ministry. The generators stopped running due to fuel depletion and the hospital was plunged into darkness, i...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Displaced Palestinians have said they faced humiliation from Israeli forces as they fled south amid its war against Palestine. Thousands of Gazans moved south along Salahuddin Road out of Gaza City, the only passage for civilians escaping a massive Israeli bombardment on the Palestinian territory. Most fled on...
London, United Kingdom – AFP UK trade union members on Friday blockaded a British military equipment maker in southeastern England, calling for a halt to Israel’s attacks in Gaza. Demonstrators brandished banners and placards reading “no business as usual” and “taxpayers have blood on their hands” outside th...
ANKARA (AA/AFP) – The Israeli army on Friday struck Gaza’s main hospital Al-Shifa, leaving numerous casualties among the displaced Palestinians taking shelter at the hospital. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli warplanes struck the outpatient building within the Al-Shifa Hospital complex. It added that ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said it could not confirm Israel’s claims that Hamas is using Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for military purposes. “The Israeli military claims that Hamas has its headquarters underneath al-Shifa hospital, and that Hamas military officials are inside the hospital. HRW cannot corroborate this...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN humanitarian office said on Friday that they cannot deliver aid trucks to the north of Gaza. “If there is a hell on earth, it is the north of Gaza,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told the weekly press briefing in Geneva. Laerke […]
