AL ARISH: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Egypt’s border with Gaza on Saturday to renew pleas for a ceasefire that could bring relief to a territory devastated by more than five months of war between Israel and Hamas. His trip comes as Israel threatens to launch a major military operation in the southern Gaza … Read more
SDEROT: Cheerful music welcomed children apprehensively returning to school amid heavy security on Sunday in Sderot, one of the Israeli towns near the Gaza border attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7. Gunfire could be heard from the direction of Gaza, just a few kilometres away, as education officials said thousands of children are set to … Read more
Four monkeys have already died and a fifth is now so weak it cannot even feed itself said the zoo owner. Gaza: In Rafah zoo, dozens of destitute Gazans are camping between the cages where starving monkeys, parrots and lions cry out for food 12 weeks into Israel’s offensive. Nearly all Gaza’s 2.3 million people … Read more
“To have security we must control the territory,” Bezalel Smotrich said (File) Jerusalem, Undefined: Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for the return of Jewish settlers to the Gaza Strip after the war and said its Palestinian population should be encouraged to emigrate. Israel launched a relentless military campaign against Hamas in … Read more
Israel approved the temporary reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday. An Israeli strike killed the head of the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip said. Crossing director Bassem Ghaben and three other people were killed as Israeli aircraft targeted the infrastructure, the crossings … Read more
Gaza hospitals have come under bombardment as part of Israel’s response to Hamas’ attacks. (File) Geneva: The World Health Organization chief said on Sunday it will be all but impossible to improve the “catastrophic” health situation in Gaza even as the board passed an emergency WHO motion by consensus to secure more medical access. Palestinian … Read more
More than 15,000 have been killed in Gaza since fighting began on October 7. (File) Cairo: Ilham Majid was praying when bombs fell on her Gaza house, and her husband only found her hours later under the rubble, alive but seriously wounded. She was one of the luckier ones — 17 other family members, including … Read more