JERUSALEM – AFP Gaza’s health ministry on Friday reported 40 dead in Israeli strikes near Gaza City and “dozens” more in the northern Jabalia refugee camp and Khan Yunis. Israeli forces have encircled major urban centres as they seek to “destroy Hamas”, making much-needed aid deliveries to Gaza almost imposs...
KHAN YUNIS (AFP): The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has slammed the world leaders for their failure to stop killings in Gaza. “We can’t turn away from what is evidently a moral failure in the face of the international community,” said Mirjana Spoljaric after visiting the European hospital in...
Jerusalem – AFP Israel has killed at least 240 people and injured another 650 since early Friday, the Hamas government in Gaza said Saturday. The deaths occurred as a result of “hundreds of air strikes, artillery and navy bombardments, everywhere in the Gaza Strip”, Hamas said in a statement, adding that Israeli forces had &#...
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories – AFP In the rubble of a house destroyed by bombs in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, a man screamed: “Where are my children?” Similar scenes played out across the devastated Gaza Strip on Friday, as residents fled their homes and rushed their dead and wounded to hospitals after Israel [&h...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops and Hamas fighters were locked in heavy, close quarters fighting in Gaza City on Thursday, including a 10-hour battle that Israel said toppled one of the Palestinians’ “strongholds”. Hamas fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and assault rifles were clashing...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Israeli airstrikes have damaged two more mosques in Khan Yunis, bringing the total number of damaged mosques to 136 and completely destroyed mosques to 59, according to Gaza’s Interior Ministry. Ikrami al-Mudallal, spokesman for the Ministry of Endowments in the Gaza Strip, said: “The number of mosques completely demolis...
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories — AFP Fadwa al-Najjar said she walked for 10 hours with her family from the north of war-torn Gaza to reach a UN camp for displaced Palestinians, witnessing terrifying scenes along the road. “We left the house at 10:00 am and we got here at 8:00 pm,” said the 38-year-old who […]
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Twelve Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Medical sources told Anadolu: “At least 12 Palestinians were killed, and dozens were injured in the shelling that hit a house belonging to the Abu Is’haq family in the […]
