Geneva, Switzerland – AFP More than 8,000 children aged under five have been treated in the Gaza Strip for acute malnutrition since Israel launched its war on the region, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 28 of those children had died and a significant proportion of Gaza’s po...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to send ground forces into Gaza’s southern Rafah city despite international fears for the fate of Palestinian civilians sheltering there. The right-wing premier stressed that “no amount of international pressure will stop us from realising al...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens in Gaza overnight Thursday-Friday, sources on both sides said on the 98th day of the war on the Palestinian enclave. An AFP journalist reported strikes and artillery shelling hit areas between the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah, which is crowded with people who fled fro...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel faced mounting international pressure Monday over the rising civilian death toll and destruction of hospitals in Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza says Israel has killed more than 18,800 people, mostly women and children since October 7 when Hamas attacked its military check posts. It said dozens were...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army has denied telling the World Health Organization to empty an aid warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours before ground operations in the area render it unusable. “We didn’t ask you to evacuate the warehouses and we also made it clear (and in writing) to the relevant #UN […...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel carried out deadly bombardments in Gaza on Sunday as international calls mounted for greater protection of civilians and the renewal of an expired truce with Hamas. The Israeli army said it had conducted more than 400 strikes in Gaza since Friday, with the Hamas government saying at least 240 people [...
LONDON (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said that the deliveries of essential supplies to Gaza must “urgently resume.” “Deliveries of essential supplies to #Gaza must urgently resume and be restored at least to levels reached during the recent truce – but much more than that is needed,” Tedros Adhano...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Thousands of people remained trapped in Gaza’s largest hospital Monday, where evacuations have been hampered by Israeli attacks. Conditions are worsening for hundreds of patients and thousands of others sheltering around Al-Shifa hospital — which has become the focus in the five-week-old war. The...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The hospitals in the centre of the heaviest north Gaza fighting have been forced out of service amid shortages and combat, the health ministry said Monday, adding the number of patients dying in the biggest medical centre had risen. UN agencies and doctors inside the facility warned the effects of the [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that half of the hospitals in Gaza are non-operational, stressing that the health system in the Palestinian enclave is “on its knees”. “Half of the Gaza Strip’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary health care centers are not func...
