Gaza’s sick and injured search for help as Rafah assault brings hospitals to their knees
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Reuters Souad Zohair, 73, has been kept alive by kidney dialysis three days a week at a hospital in Rafah, but that’s shut now by Israel’s latest offensive. Her daughter brought her up the dangerous coastal road to the last hospital left in the Gaza Strip that still has functioning dialysis […]
Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says, as West calls for restraint
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran. The United States, European Union and G7 group of industrialised nations all announced plans to consider tighter sanctions on […]
Israel says airstrike unintentionally killed aid workers in Gaza, allies demand explanations
Updated: 11:45am (AEDT) Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday an Israeli airstrike had mistakenly killed seven people working for the aid charity World Central Kitchen in Gaza, and the US and other allies called for explanations amid widespread condemnation. Israel’s military voiced “sincere sorrow” over the incident, which ratcheted up international pressure for […]
Israeli strikes kill at least 29 Gazans awaiting aid, say Palestinian officials
Updated: 10:45am (AEDT) Cairo, Egypt Reuters At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Gaza’s health ministry said. In the first incident, Palestinian health officials in the Hamas-ruled strip said eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution centre in […]
Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Reuters After surviving on bitter loaves made from animal feed instead of proper flour, three young brothers who fled their home in Gaza City for a tent further south were tucking into a tub of halawa, a sweet crumbly paste. Seraj Shehada, eight, and his brothers Ismail, nine, and Saad, 11, […]
Israel pressures Gaza cities, health officials say 18 die in airstrikes
Doha, Qatar/Gaza Reuters Israeli airstrikes killed 18 Palestinians in the Gaza cities of Rafah and Deir Al-Balah, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, as residents of the enclave feared Israel would expand its ground offensive into those last remaining areas where people have sought shelter. Rafah is on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt and more […]
Postcards: Gaza graffiti artists bedeck houses destroyed by Israel in war
NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, of Reuters, reports from Deir al-Balah…