Israeli special forces rescued four hostages in broad daylight on Saturday from the Nuseirat refugee district in the centre of the Gaza Strip after 246 days in captivity, the army said. The Palestinian director of the al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah said at least 94 people had been killed and a further 200 injured in […]
Dozens of civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in central Gaza, Palestinian medics and the Hamas militant group said, a claim Israel denies. The Hamas-controlled health authority in Gaza said that at least 30 people were killed in the attack on Wednesday […]
By Ali Sawafta and Raneen Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded at least 13 others in a raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry and medics said. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it was treating at least six people […]
The Palestinians plan to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel currently before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Ramallah has applied to join the case, the court announced in The Hague on Monday evening. The ministry requested this on behalf of Palestine, which is not yet recognized as a […]
Emergency services have recovered the bodies of 360 people, mostly women and children, killed in the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya, during a recent three-week Israeli offensive there, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence said on Tuesday. Palestinian health officials in the Gaza Strip said Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people overnight into Tuesday, […]
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights office called on Tuesday for an end to violence in which it said Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers have killed more than 500 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. It said in a statement that Israel […]
Israel’s military confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas — including three men in their 80s who were seen in a Hamas video begging for their release. Around 80 hostages captured on Oct. 7 are believed to still be alive in Gaza, alongside the remains of 43 others. Monday’s announcement came days […]
By Mahmoud Issa JABALIA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Palestinian Umm Mohammed Khrouat says she would rather live in a tent than the school where she is forced to shelter with her five children in northern Gaza, so bad are the conditions after nearly eight months of war. “There is no hygiene, or water,” said Umm […]
On May 18, a photo of two Israeli soldiers circulated on social media. They were standing in front of a bullet-riddled house in what appeared to be Gaza. Its wall was spray-painted with the words “Nakba 2023.” This apparent mocking acknowledgment of the term’s importance put those two soldiers in a peculiar kind of agreement […]
May 24 (UPI) — Israel announced Friday it had terminated Spain’s diplomatic and consular links with Palestinians in response to a senior Spanish minister’s use of the phrase “From the river to the sea,” amid an escalating row over Madrid’s decision to recognize Palestine as a state. In a social media post, Foreign Minister Israel […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and battled in close combat with Hamas-led militants in areas of the southern city of Rafah, health officials and Hamas media said. Israeli tanks advanced in Rafah’s southeast, edged towards the city’s […]
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has handed out a “limited number” of high-energy biscuits that arrived in Gaza via a US-built pier. It is the first aid from the new humanitarian sea route to reach Palestinians. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella said on Wednesday the small number of biscuits came in the first […]