At last 11 people have been killed and a further 40 have suffered injuries during an attack on a tented encampment in the south of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported on Friday, citing hospital doctors. According to the report, tents in al-Mawasi, which lies directly on the Mediterranean coast, were hit […]
Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50 according to Gaza’s heath ministry and emergency workers. It is the latest attack in the tiny Palestinian territory where hundreds of thousands have fled fighting between Israel and Hamas. According to Ahmed Radwan, […]
Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50 according to Gaza’s heath ministry and emergency workers. It is the latest attack in the tiny Palestinian territory where hundreds of thousands have fled fighting between Israel and Hamas. According to Ahmed Radwan, […]
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50 according to Gaza’s Heath Ministry and emergency workers, in the latest deadly attack in the tiny Palestinian territory where hundreds of thousands have fled fighting between Israel […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday killed at least 17 Palestinians in two of the Gaza Strip’s historic refugee camps and Israeli tanks pushed deeper into the enclave’s southern city of Rafah, residents and medics said. Residents reported heavy bombardments from tanks and planes in several areas of Rafah, where more […]
Israel’s military said they have killed more than 500 Hamas militants during the monthlong operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. The military said they had identified 20 smuggling tunnels which totalled more than 20km (12.5 miles) and more than 230 tunnel shafts. The army said 100 of the tunnel shafts were […]
The Israeli military says it will soon have achieved its aims in the offensive in Rafah. Half of the combat units of the the militant Palestinian organization, which governed Gaza prior to the war that broke out in October, have been destroyed, the army said. Some 60-70% of the territory of the city in the […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military said, as forces continued to push in and around the southern city of Rafah and strikes hit several areas of Gaza, killing at least 19 Palestinians. Earlier, the armed wing of Hamas […]
Fear plagued Saleh Mohammed al-Hila, 37, on that Sunday. “I was lying on the ground of the tent and told my son, ‘May God save us from this night,’” he recalled. Hamas had launched rockets at central Israel hours earlier, setting off air-raid sirens in the Tel Aviv area for the first time in months. […]
Israel’s army says it is continuing its internationally criticized operations in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Casualties were again reported Wednesday, the Israeli military said on Thursday. IDF troops carried out targeted raids in the area, located weapons and eliminated several terrorists in close combat, the army said in […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli tanks advanced deeper into the western area of Rafah, amid one of the worst nights of bombardment from air, ground, and sea, forcing many families to flee their homes and tents under darkness, residents said on Thursday. Residents said the Israeli forces thrust towards the Al-Mawasi area of […]
A photo of a tunnel in northern Gaza on the border with Israel has been shared repeatedly in posts that falsely claimed it shows a passage between the war-torn territory’s southern tip and Egypt. The claim circulated shortly before the UN’s top court ordered a stop to the Israeli assault on the southern city of […]