By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Bassam Masoud CAIRO/GAZA, March 23 (Reuters) – Fighting raged on Saturday around Gaza’s main hospital where Israel says it has so far killed more than 170 gunmen in an extensive raid, which the Palestinian Health Ministry says has also resulted in the deaths of five patients. The armed wing of Hamas […]
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied. Al Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, is now one of the few healthcare facilities even partially operational in the north […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area. “Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in […]
The numbers tell a story of continuing devastation: blocked food, destroyed homes, and lost lives. This is not the first time that food has been weaponized against people in Gaza. In 2012, during a blockade imposed by Israel, documents revealed that calorie counts were used in order to permit minimum amounts of food and avoid […]
WASHINGTON — From the skies over the Gaza Strip these days fall American bombs and American food pallets, delivering death and life at the same time and illustrating President Joe Biden’s elusive effort to find balance in an unbalanced Middle East war. The president’s decision to authorize airdrops and the construction of a temporary port […]
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. expert said on Thursday that Israel was destroying Gaza’s food system as part of a broader “starvation campaign” in its war against Hamas militants and berated a U.N. human rights body for not doing more. “The images of starvation in Gaza are unbearable and you are doing nothing,” […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights office said on Friday that an Israeli offensive in Gaza’s border town of Rafah could not be allowed to happen because it would cause massive loss of Palestinian lives. “Should Israel launch its threatened military offensive into Rafah, where 1.5 million people have been displaced in deplorable, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address Thursday for the U.S. military to help establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast, increasing the flow of humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory during the Israel-Hamas war, according to administration officials. The officials, who spoke on […]
The death toll in Gaza surpassed 30,000 from the Israel-Hamas war that began last October, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said Thursday. The news comes as Israel and Hamas are negotiating details of a proposed ceasefire in Qatar this week. President Biden, who had earlier expressed hope for an agreement by Monday, said Thursday that timeline […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Sunday it intensified operations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, destroying dozens of Hamas targets in a blitz of air and artillery strikes. The air force and artillery hit about 50 targets within six minutes, it said, in a bid to “intensify operational achievements in […]
The death toll in Gaza surpassed 30,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Thursday. It comes as Israel and Hamas have representatives in Qatar this week to work out the details of a proposed weeks-long pause in fighting in the Gaza Strip, with the war in its fifth […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At least one quarter of Gaza’s population – 576,000 people – are one step away from famine and virtually the entire population desperately needs food resulting in aid trucks being shot at, looted and overwhelmed by hungry people, top U.N. officials said Tuesday. The officials from the U.N. humanitarian office and […]