Palestinians line up to receive bags of flour distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip (Image credit: AP) 34 people were killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, according to health officials. The strikes began late Friday and continued till Saturday morning. The dead included 12 people killed at the […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday expressed hope that a ceasefire in Gaza could be reached soon, saying a deal involving Israel and Hamas might come as early as next week.“We think within the next week, we’re going to get a ceasefire,” Trump told reporters when asked about the possibility of ending the fighting in […]
GENEVA: The United Nations on Tuesday condemned Israel’s apparent “weaponization of food” in Gaza, a war crime, and urged Israel’s military to “stop shooting at people trying to get food”.“Israel’s militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism is in contradiction with international standards on aid distribution,” the UN human rights office said in written notes provided before a […]
A Palestinian carries a bag of food he collected at a distribution centre run by private contractor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the southern Gaza Strip, as he arrives at his tent in Khan Younis (Image credit: AP) Palestinians in Gaza are risking their lives daily to get food as aid remains scarce and violence […]
Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 51 people, medics said, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet as desperate residents struggle for food. Video shared on social media showed around a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street in Khan […]
Representative image (AP) CAIRO: Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, most of them near an aid distribution site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, local health authorities said.Medics at Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa Hospitals in central Gaza areas, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at […]
Gaza’s war-scarred labyrinth has a new face of command. His name is Ezzedin al-Haddad—and most people have never heard of him.After more than 600 days of war, and the deaths of both Yahya and Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas has quietly handed over its Gaza operations to a shadowy veteran commander known as The Ghost of al-Qassam. […]
A deadly attack on aid workers in southern Gaza has drawn sharp condemnation from a US- and Israel-backed relief group, which accused Hamas of targeting its Palestinian staff as they travelled to distribute humanitarian aid, reports the New York Times. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which began operating in late May, said a bus carrying […]
Greta Thunberg (Image credits: X/@benonwine) A French doctor who was aboard a humanitarian aid boat bound for Gaza has accused Israeli authorities of mistreating passengers, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, after the vessel was intercepted at sea.Dr Baptiste André, one of the 12 people on the Madleen, said passengers were mocked, deprived of sleep, […]
Greta Thunberg and Donald Trump (R) Climate activist Greta Thunberg fired back at US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he mocked her for being “angry” following her detention by Israeli forces. Responding to his remarks, Thunberg said, “The world needs more angry young women.” Thunberg was deported from Israel after being taken into custody […]
