8 hours ago Israeli forces raid Gaza hospital after staff reported killed in strike

Staff arrested, injured and killed as Israeli forces burn departments and attack buildings surrounding one of the area’s last remaining hospitals, says directorA fire has broken out at one of northern Gaza’s only functioning hospitals, while medics and patients have been forced to leave by Israeli forces, who raided the hospital on Friday morning, according to staff members.Kamal Adwan hospital and the surrounding area has been under increased attack this week, according to the hospital’s director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who said five medical staff were killed in a strike on Thursday. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Israel confirms strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen as WHO chief caught in airport attack

Yemen’s Houthi-run broadcaster Al Masirah said that two people were killed in Israeli strikes on Sanaa international airport and another person was killed in Ras Issa port

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12 hours ago Houthis claim missile attack on Tel Aviv after Israel strikes Yemen airport – Middle East crisis live

Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the overnight firing of a missile at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airportThe Israeli military demanded that medical staff and patients leave the premises of Kamal Adwan hospital to make room for their forces to storm the facility, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported this morning.Gaza’s health ministry has said the three main hospitals in northern Gaza – of which Kamal Adwan is one – are barely functioning and have been under repeated attack since Israel sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and nearby Beit Hanoun and Jabalia in October.This morning, Israel pushed deeper into the area surrounding Kamal Adwan hospital. Israeli armoured tanks advanced deeper under heavy cover from quadcopter machineguns.Explosive devices had already been planted in the vicinity of the hospital. Four were set off near the northern gate, at the back entrance, causing damage to the compound and sparking fires in some of the buildings around it. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Israeli attacks kill 50 more Palestinians as troops storm northern Gaza hospital

US pressures expert monitoring group into withdrawing famine warning for northern Gaza

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13 hours ago Netanyahu warns Yemen airstrikes will continue after WHO chief caught up in airport attack – Middle East crisis live

Head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was at Yemen’s international airport when it was hitThe Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea for more than a year to try to enforce a naval blockade on Israel, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel’s year-long war in Gaza.The strikes on shipping by the Houthis, who have also launched missiles at Israel, have prompted retaliatory strikes by the US and Britain. Here is an extract from our explainer on the group:The Houthis are a Yemeni militia group named after their founder, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, and representing the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam.They emerged in the 1980s in opposition to Saudi Arabia’s religious influence in Yemen. Continue reading...

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23 hours ago Israeli drone strike kills 5 journalists in Gaza sparking global outrage

An Israeli drone strike killed five journalists outside a Gaza hospital, drawing condemnation from media groups and raising concerns over attacks on press freedoms during the ongoing conflict

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26 hours ago WHO head in Yemen airport during Israeli air strikes on Houthi targets

The Israeli military said it carried out strikes on several key Houthi targets in Yemen

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29 hours ago Middle East crisis live: WHO chief at Yemen airport during Israeli airstrikes; Netanyahu says attack ongoing ‘until we complete the job’

Houthi television reports say three people were killed in Israel’s strikes on Yemen; Israel says airstrikes target military infrastructureAn IDF reservist soldier was killed in fighting in the central Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said.The 35-year-old was named as Amit Levi, the Jerusalem Post reported.The Israeli army justifies or excuses this targeting by claiming it is aimed at individuals involved in Palestinian organisations and cells.However, on the ground, these individuals were on journalistic assignments, residing in press vehicles and covering events.May God take revenge on them, may God take revenge on them. He’s the one that makes the news and broadcasts the crimes to the world, this is what they do to them. Continue reading...

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29 hours ago Israel hits Houthi targets across Yemen with air strikes including at airport

Head of the WHO said he was at airport when it was struck by Israeli forces targeting Houthi rebels

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32 hours ago Middle East latest: 5 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli strike, Gaza Health Ministry says

Gaza's Health Ministry says five Palestinian journalists have been killed by an Israeli strike

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32 hours ago Israeli airstrike kills five Palestinian journalists outside Gaza hospital

Several young men attended the funeral outside the hospital, many of them sobbing. The bodies were all wrapped in white shrouds, with blue press vests draped over them

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37 hours ago Middle East crisis live: 14 security personnel killed in Syria after clash over former prison officer

Security personnel and three armed men killed in Tartous province after forces sought to arrest officer linked to Sednaya prison, says Syrian Observatory for Human RightsHello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and developments in the Middle East more widely.Fourteen security personnel from Syria’s new authorities and three armed men were killed in clashes in Tartous province when forces attempted to arrest an officer linked to the notorious Sednaya prison, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Five journalists were killed when their vehicle was struck in the vicinity of Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza, health authorities said. Palestinian media and local reporters said the vehicle was marked as a media van and was used by journalists to report from inside the hospital and Nuseirat camp. The journalists worked for the Al-Quds Al-Youm television channel. The Israeli army said its air force attacked the vehicle in a “targete...

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38 hours ago Israel kills 5 journalists in latest Gaza attacks as three babies freeze to death

Babies die from hypothermia as temperatures plummet in makeshift camps

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