Israel’s blockade means there is little or no soap, period products or household cleaning materials. Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: When girls complain to Gaza paediatrician Lobna al-Azaiza that they have no comb, she tells them to cut off their hair. It’s not just combs. Israel’s blockade of the territory, ravaged by 10 months of war, means … Read more
The incident took place in Khan Younis. As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, a new video of Israel’s elite Egoz commando unit killing a group of Hamas operatives using drones and grenades in southern Gaza has surfaced online, as per a report in the New York Post. The 28-second short clip shows the aftermath of a … Read more
During October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, some 250 hostages were taken to Gaza. (File) Palestinian Territories: Hamas’s armed wing said on Friday that hostages in Gaza were “struggling to stay alive” as conditions across the war-battered Palestinian territory deteriorate due to relentless Israeli bombardments. “The wounded and sick enemy prisoners are going through … Read more
28,576 people have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory military offensive on Gaza: Hamas (File) New York: Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Thursday. Killings of reporters … Read more
Gaza has had its own separate administration run by Hamas since 2007. (File) Ramallah: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas pressed the group Hamas on Wednesday to agree a Gaza deal quickly to avoid “dire consequences”, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. “We call on the Hamas movement to quickly complete a prisoner deal, to spare … Read more
The UN has launched two separate probes into UNRWA. (File) Jerusalem: The Israeli military claimed on Saturday that they had discovered a Hamas tunnel under the Gaza City headquarters of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). UNRWA said in response that it had not operated from the base since October 12 — five days … Read more
“Come and get me,” Hind Rajab was heard crying desperately in an audio recording. (File) Relatives found the body on Saturday of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who had begged Gaza rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire, along with the bodies of five of her family members and two ambulance workers … Read more
27,947 people have been killed in Gaza, says Hamas. (File) Riyadh: Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that Israel’s planned army operation in overcrowded Rafah would cause a “humanitarian catastrophe” and called for the United Nations Security Council to intervene. The kingdom “warned of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting” Rafah and affirmed its … Read more
Hamas confirmed that it submitted its response to Egypt and Qatar. (File) Doha: Qatar said Tuesday that Hamas has delivered a “positive” response to a proposal to free hostages in return for pausing the Gaza war, which US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will take to Israel. “We have received a reply from Hamas with … Read more
More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are now hemmed into Rafah. (File) Rafah: Displaced again and again by Israel’s military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent close to gravestones in a cemetery in Rafah, the last place of relative safety in the ruined strip of land. … Read more