DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP: Thousands of Palestinian families fled Wednesday from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges, as the military launched heavy strikes across the center and south of the territory, killing dozens, Palestinian health officials said.On foot or riding donkey carts loaded with belongings, a stream of … Read more
The war has already killed thousands of Palestinians and displaced over three-fourths of the territory’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians, who are running out of safe places to go. Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip: … Read more
More than five weeks into Israel’s war against Hamas, some streets are now more like graveyards. FILE – Palestinians inspect the rubble of a destroyed building after an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip on Oct. 27, 2023. U.N. humanitarian monitors say at least 2,700 people, including 1,500 children, are missing and believed … Read more
Israeli troops were “shooting at anyone outside or inside the hospital,” and prevented movement between the buildings in the compound. DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip: Israel’s prime minister pushed back Saturday against calls from Western allies to do more to protect Palestinian civilians, as troops encircled Gaza’s largest hospital where doctors said five patients died, including … Read more
More children have been killed in just over three weeks in Gaza than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years, according to the global charity Save the Children. A teddy bear is rest on the floor following an Israeli airstrike in Nusseirat refugee camp in Gaza Strip on … Read more