ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army attacked the southern city of Rafah and the Nuseirat refugee camp in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens of others. Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah. Six Palestinians were killed, most of them children, and many others [&h...
JERUSALEM – AFP Hamas said Sunday that Israel had launched a series of “very violent raids” targeting the southern city of Khan Yunis and the road from there to Rafah, near the border with Egypt. A source close to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian resistance group, told AFP that both were engaged in “fierce [...
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...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA/AFP) – At least 26 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, according to local sources. Fighter jets struck residential buildings in Hamad Town, northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing 26 people, including several children, and injuring dozens oth...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN humanitarian chief said Wednesday he and Iran’s top diplomat had discussed fears of what an expansion of Israel’s war against Palestine might entail, and had agreed it “would not be good”. At a Geneva press briefing, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths voiced deep co...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Just hours after receiving its first wartime delivery of fuel from outside Gaza, the UN warned Wednesday its operations in the territory were facing collapse, with most people soon unable to access drinking water. “Our entire operation is now on the verge of collapse,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP A group of dual nationals left Gaza for Egypt on Thursday through Rafah, a border official said, a day after the crossing point reopened for foreign passport holders and wounded Palestinians. Wael Abu Mohsen, spokesman for the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, said in a statement that “100...
İSTANBUL (AA) – The commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said Wednesday that the situation in Gaza is “unprecedented” as he made his first visit to the Palestinian enclave since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas. “This is the first time ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — At least 55 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, according to local media. An airstrike hit a house in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing nine and injuring several others, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Another strike targeted a dwelling in the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people in Gaza and a UN aid agency warned it would have to stop work by the end of Wednesday. Alarm has grown about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in heavily bombarded Gaza where one doctor said he was forced to perform emergency surgery on the […]
