ANKARA (AA) – France is deeply concerned over the recent Israeli strikes on schools in Gaza, according to an official statement. The French Foreign Ministry recalled that the attack on Al-Awda school on Tuesday was the third one aiming at a school for displaced children since Saturday. A school affiliated with the UN agency for Palestini...
Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli army has dropped thousands of leaflets over Gaza City urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive that has rocked the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory. The leaflets, addressed to “everyone in Gaza City”, set out designated escape routes to the south and warned that t...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed at least 29 people in a strike at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza on Tuesday, a hospital source in Khan Yunis said. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Hamas’ Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh said he had warned mediators that the “catastrophic consequences...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least six Palestinian policemen were killed and others injured on Saturday when Israeli jets bombed their car in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources told Anadolu that the casualties in the Al-Shakoush area in the Saudi neighborhood, northwest of the city of Rafah, were transferred to the [&hel...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israeli military positions on Thursday as Israel continued its attacks in Gaza. The Iran-backed resistance group said its latest attack, which followed the launch of over 100 small rockets the previous day, came in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah c...
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...
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, a Palestinian man displaced by the shelling has made umbrellas from parachutes used in air-dropped aid packages and opened a picnic area for Palestinians living in tents in Khan Younis. Mahmud Helmi, who took refuge in Nuseirat camp and came up with the idea of opening a picnic area, […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of the Eid al-Adha, according to medical sources. Israeli warplanes struck three homes in the central city of Deir al-Balah, killing 13 people and injuring several others, the sources said. Two more […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN has warned that displaced people who sought shelter in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip due to Israel’s offensive in Rafah face shortage of safe drinking water. “That’s what our partners who are working on sanitation and water are telling us,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters duri...
Three American members of medical missions have chosen to stay in Gaza until Israel permits replacement humanitarian workers. They are part of a group of 20 American and British medical workers from the European Hospital in Khan Younis, who are being evacuated from Gaza. Hindered by the closure of the Rafah border crossing, these workers [&h...
