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
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
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
My weight was 87 Kg. I lost, in 45 days, more than 25 Kg, says Doctor Said Abdulrahman Maarouf. Rafah: A Palestinian doctor says Israeli forces in Gaza detained him when they overran a hospital and subjected him to abuse during 45 days of captivity including sleep deprivation and constant shackling and blindfolding before releasing … Read more
Israeli army said its forces killed “dozens of terrorists” in Gaza over the past 24 hours. (File) Palestinian Territories: Israel pressed its blistering assault in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as fears grew over a push into Rafah, the southern city teeming with civilians uprooted by the nearly four-month war. A barrage of air strikes … Read more
WHO Chief warned that more people in Gaza would die of starvation and disease. (File) Geneva: The head of the World Health Organization called for a ceasefire and a “true solution” to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in an emotional plea to the global health body’s governing body on Thursday where he described conditions in Gaza as … Read more
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s unprecedented October 7 attacks. (File) Jerusalem: The Israeli army announced Sunday the death of another soldier in the October 7 Hamas attacks and said his body was being held in the Gaza Strip. “Sergeant Shay Levinson, 19, died on October 7… his body is … Read more
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says about 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza. (File) Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry on Sunday said the death count in the war-torn Palestinian territory breached 25,000 as Israel pushed its southward offensive and renewed bombardment in the north. Israel is pressing its push against Hamas … Read more