Palestinians are streaming out of eastern Khan Younis, the second-largest city in Gaza, as an Israeli evacuation order affects roughly 250,000 people, the United Nations said Tuesday. Israel’s military estimated that around 1.9 million people — more than 80% of all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — are now clustered into the territory’s central region. […]
At least 31 people have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports on Tuesday. Seventeen Palestinians died in the city of Gaza alone, medical sources in the sealed-off coastal region said as Israeli forces continued their operations. The information could not initially be independently verified. When asked, […]
Palestinians have been fleeing districts to the east of Gaza’s second city of Khan Younis after Israel issued evacuation orders. Overnight and into the morning, witnesses reported multiple Israeli strikes in and around Khan Younis. A medical source and the Palestinian Red Crescent said eight people had been killed and more than 30 wounded. Patients […]
Israel released 55 Palestinians on Monday who had been detained from Gaza, including the director of the territory’s main hospital, a Palestinian health official said. Mohammed Abu Selmia was detained in November when Israeli forces raided Shifa Hospital. In a video shown by Palestinian media after his release, Abu Selmia accused Israeli authorities of subjecting Palestinian […]
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Israel released 55 Palestinians on Monday who had been detained from Gaza, including the director of the territory’s main hospital, a Palestinian health official said. Mohammed Abu Selmia was detained in November when Israeli forces raided Shifa Hospital. In a video shown by Palestinian media after his release, Abu Selmia accused Israeli authorities of subjecting Palestinian […]
A Palestinian health official says Israel released 55 Palestinians on Monday whom it had detained from Gaza, including the director of the territory’s main hospital. Mohammed Abu Selmia was detained in November when Israeli forces raided Shifa Hospital. In video comments aired by Palestinian media following his release, Abu Selmia accused Israeli authorities of subjecting […]
Two more Palestinian men, injured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank last week, have told the BBC that Israeli soldiers forced them onto the bonnet of an army jeep and drove them – sometimes at speed – along village roads. Their accounts came days after footage of 23-year-old Mujahid Abadi Balas clinging […]
At least 12 people have been killed in fresh Israeli attacks in parts of Gaza City, Palestinian medics said on Saturday. The Israeli military said airstrikes hit targets in Shejaiya, a neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City, including cells of militants who were about to attack Israeli soldiers. Ground troops also took action against […]
Palestinians have been fleeing Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya district amid intense Israeli bombardment and a reported incursion by ground forces. One Gaza City resident said it had “sounded as if the war is restarting”, while Hamas-run authorities said air strikes had killed at least seven people. Palestinian armed groups said they had targeted a tank […]
Seven people have been killed in Israeli army attacks on targets in Gaza City, the Hamas-controlled civil defence forces said on Thursday. Dozens more Palestinians had been injured in the bombardment of the Shejaiya neighbourhood, it added. Palestinian media reported heavy attacks on the area. The information could not be independently verified. The Israeli army […]
The cuts on her feet from a strike she survived two weeks earlier had yet to heal, Asma Al-Sarafendi said, before more shrapnel embedded itself into the flesh of her leg during a strike this week on a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza. The Wednesday strike on Al-Mawasi began just after midnight, Al-Sarafendi said, […]