The scenes were chaotic: hundreds of people crowded around aid trucks desperately trying to grab what they could amid a hunger crisis that international observers feared could turn into famine. By the end of the night, according to Gazan health authorities, 112 would be dead and more than 700 people injured. As the Guardian’s diplomatic … Read more
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has since killed more than 29,000 Palestinians Gunfire echoed around Palestinian medics, patients and displaced people during what they described as a terrifying and chaotic night evacuation from Gaza’s Nasser Hospital after Israeli forces rushed in the hospital. Survivors of last week’s assault on the second-biggest hospital in Gaza said … Read more
Israel’s air and ground offensive has devastated much of Gaza Gaza: Fighting, fuel shortages, and Israeli raids put the Gaza Strip’s second-largest hospital completely out of service on Sunday, local and U.N. health officials said, as Israeli forces battled Hamas in the devastated Palestinian enclave. The latest blow to Gaza’s destroyed healthcare sector came as … Read more
Hamas had proposed a Gaza ceasefire of four-and-a-half months (File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday total victory in Gaza was within reach, rejecting the latest offer from Hamas for a ceasefire to ensure the return of hostages still held in the besieged enclave. Netanyahu renewed a pledge to destroy the Palestinian Islamist … Read more
The healthcare system in Gaza has almost entirely collapsed, with hospitals overwhelmed El-Arish, Egypt: On a French warship off the Egyptian coast, wounded Palestinians receive the healthcare that has become largely unobtainable in the besieged Gaza Strip after months of war. Sitting in a wheelchair, Abdulrahman Iyad wrings his hands in his lap, resting them … Read more
Beyond the conflict in Gaza it has been a violent few weeks in the wider Middle East, from attacks on shipping in the Red Sea to bomb blasts in Iran and a killing by drone in Beirut. Julian Borger explains what may happen next Iran suffered the worst terrorist attack in the history of the … Read more
Militants also took around 250 people hostage, most of whom remain in Gaza. Jerusalem: Seconds after ringing in the new year on a lively street in Tel Aviv, some young Israelis found themselves running for cover while others kept the party going with a shrug as missile defence systems intercepted a barrage of rockets overhead. … Read more
Israel launched attack on Gaza in retaliation to October 7 attack (File) Three Palestinian brothers rounded up by Israel in the Gaza Strip said they and fellow detainees were beaten, stripped to their underwear, burnt with cigarettes and subjected to other forms of mistreatment during their detention. Sobhi Yaseen, his brothers Sady and Ibrahim were … Read more
Israeli siege imposed after October 7 led to dire shortages of food, safe water, fuel (File) After nearly three months of deadly strikes, incessant displacements and sputtering humanitarian aid, “exhausted” Gazans say they are desperate for an end to the fighting as Israel’s war against Hamas looks set to grind on into the new year. … Read more
