More than 700 Palestinians have been killed trying to get food in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, according to new figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, spurring renewed condemnation of a contentious United States and Israeli-backed aid scheme. The Health Ministry said on Saturday that at least 743 Palestinians were killed and […]
Read MoreMembers of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly this week to proscribe the campaign group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organisation under anti-terrorism laws, putting the group on a par with armed groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS). A draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 to do this, brought by Home […]
Read MoreMore than 300 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the last 48 hours, according to the Gaza Government Media Office, which says Israel has “committed 26 bloody massacres” in that period. At least 118 Palestinians were killed and 581 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, […]
Read MoreIsraeli strikes killed at least 60 people across Gaza on Monday in some of the heaviest attacks in weeks as Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by US President Donald Trump. A day after Trump called to “Make the deal in Gaza, get the hostages back”, Israel’s strategic affairs minister […]
Read MoreHospitals in Gaza are “completely overwhelmed; there’s not enough beds; there’s not enough staff to treat them; patients are on the floor”, Hannah Grace Pan, a paediatric nurse volunteer from the UK, tells Al Jazeera. She said many patients and small children are being treated for “extremely painful, explosive injuries and burns with no pain […]
Read MoreIsraeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 21 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday (26 June), local health authorities said, as mediators reached out to Israel and Hamas to seek a resumption of ceasefire talks to end the war. Local health authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed at least nine people at a school […]
Read MoreAfter 79 killed Palestinians were brought to Gaza hospitals over the past 24 hours and the death toll from Israeli attacks on the enclave since the start of the war has risen to 56,077, reports Al Jazeera. The number of those wounded has also increased to 131,848 people, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Since […]
Read MoreAt least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said, in a third day running of chaos and bloodshed to blight the aid operation. The Israeli military said its forces had opened fire on a group of people […]
Read MoreDEIR AL-BALAH: An Israeli strike on a residential building in the Gaza Strip on Monday killed 14 people, mostly women and children, according to health officials. The Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals confirmed the toll from the strike in the built-up Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, saying five women and seven children were among those […]
Read MoreIsrael is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, with almost no ready-to-eat food entering what its spokesperson described as “the hungriest place on earth”. Spokesperson Jens Laerke said only 600 of 900 aid trucks had been authorised to […]
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