3 d. ago Eleven killed in Gaza school shelter as Israel continues bombing campaign

Wave of airstrikes claim at least 25 lives while Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposalAt least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza

Israel launches wave of airstrikes as Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposalAt least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Palestinian star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike

Fatma Hassona, the protagonist of Sepideh Farsi’s ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’, was 25

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1 week ago One person killed and several wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital

Airstrike prompts UN warning that humanitarian crisis is at its worst since fighting broke out 18 months agoOne person has been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a hospital in Gaza, just as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was making a visit to the war-torn territory.The attack on Tuesday occurred two days after another major hospital was targeted, fuelling warnings from the UN that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now the worst it has been since conflict began. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Medics killed and wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital

Airstrike prompts UN warning that humanitarian crisis is at its worst since fighting broke out 18 months agoA medic has been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a hospital in Gaza.The attack on Tuesday came two days after another major hospital was targeted, fuelling warnings from the UN that the humanitarian crisis in the territory is now the worst it has been since conflict began. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Middle East latest: Israeli strike on Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Gaza kills medic and wounds several

An Israeli airstrike hit Tuesday the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said

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2 w. ago Israeli strike on Gaza City residential block killed at least 23, officials say

Israeli military says it struck a senior Hamas militant who it claims was behind attacks emanating from ShijaiyahMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsraeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian territory showed no signs of letting up.The Al-Ahli hospital said at least 23 people were killed in the strike, including eight women and eight children, figures confirmed by the territory’s health ministry. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gaza air strike by Israel leave scores missing with at least 22 killed

Rescuers search for survivors of an Israeli strike which has left scores of Palestinians missing and a rising death toll, as the US ramps up tensions with Houthi rebels and their Iranian sponsors

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2 w. ago Israeli strike on Gaza apartment building kills at least 23, officials say

An Israeli airstrike on a residential block in northern Gaza killed at least 23 people, health officials in the Palestinian territory say

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2 w. ago Gaza rescue workers say 20 people killed in Israeli strike on residential block – Middle East crisis live

Gaza’s civil defence agency says the strike resulted in ‘20 martyrs and more than 40 injured’The Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,846.Hamas’s October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on Israeli official figures. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Middle East latest: Israeli strike on media tent near Gaza hospital kills reporter, wounds others

Israel has struck tents outside two major hospitals in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least two people, including a local reporter, and wounding nine, including six reporters, Palestinian medics said

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3 w. ago Israeli bombing of Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians kills at least 27, say medical officials

Most of those killed were women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry

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3 w. ago At least 27 killed as Israeli strike hits a school in Gaza, say medical officials

The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, say officials

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3 w. ago At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from southern city of Rafah in one of war’s biggest mass displacementsAn Israeli bombing of a school turned shelter in Gaza City has killed at least 27 people, rescuers said, and hundreds of thousands in the Rafah area are fleeing in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war amid Israel’s newly announced campaign to “divide up” the Gaza Strip.Three missiles hit Dar al-Arqam school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, the civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said, killing several children and wounding 100 people. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Family of British aid worker killed in Gaza make fresh calls for investigation

The family of James Kirby, an aid worker killed in an Israeli drone strike, say they feel ignored by the Government on the anniversary of his death.

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