Gaza health ministry says 20 Palestinians killed in strike on food aid queue
Gaza/Doha,Qatar/Jerusalem Reuters An Israeli strike on Gaza City killed 20 Palestinians and wounded 150 who were queuing for food aid on Thursday, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said, in what Palestinian groups called a “war crime”. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report. A Palestinian girl carrying a child walks through debris at […]
Updated: US pushes for pause in Gaza as Israel suffers worst loss of soldiers
Updated: 7:45am, 24th January, 2024 Gaza/Jerusalem Reuters The White House said on Tuesday its envoy was having active discussions about ensuring the release of hostages in Gaza and securing a humanitarian pause in the war after Israel suffered its worse loss of soldiers in over three months of conflict. In the hours after the death […]
Fighting across Gaza as Israel drops leaflets seeking its hostages
Doha, Qatar/Gaza Reuters Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip on Saturday while its planes dropped leaflets on the southern area of Rafah urging Palestinians seeking refuge there to help locate hostages held by Hamas, residents said. Palestinian fighters battled tanks trying to push back into the eastern suburbs of the Jabalia area in northern […]
Israel presses assault in southern Gaza, Jordan says field hospital badly damaged
Gaza/Israel-Gaza border/Doha, Qatar Reuters Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sending tanks westwards and prompting accusations from Jordan that its field hospital in the city had been badly damaged by nearby shelling. The Jordanian army said it held Israel responsible for a “flagrant breach of international law” in what it […]