15 h. ago At least 31 Palestinians killed while seeking aid in Gaza, hospital officials say

Red Cross field hospital in Rafah reports largest number of dead in a year and says most of over 100 injured were shotAt least 31 Palestinians were shot dead on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including four children, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said.The Red Cross said its field hospital recorded its largest influx of dead in more than a year of operation after the shootings, and that the overwhelming majority of the more than 100 people injured had gunshot wounds. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago At least 31 Palestinians shot dead while seeking aid in Gaza, hospital officials say

Red Cross hospital in Rafah reports largest number of dead in a year, as one witness says Israeli tank fired at crowdsAt least 31 Palestinians were shot dead on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including four children, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said.The Red Cross said its field hospital recorded its largest influx of dead in more than a year of operation after the shootings, and that the overwhelming majority of the more than 100 people injured had gunshot wounds. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Child dies from measles at UK hospital as officials fear disease could 'spread like wildfire'

A child has died at a UK hospital after being admitted with measles – the second death of a child in the UK following acute measles infection this decade, with experts concerned of an outbreak

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19 h. ago Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say

Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near site run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian FoundationDozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks while trying to get food aid in Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said, while progress in talks aimed at securing a ceasefire appeared to be stalling.At least 31 Palestinians were killed on their way to a distribution site run by the Israeli-backed American organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) near Rafah in southern Gaza, officials and witnesses said, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Child with measles dies at UK hospital as officials fear it could 'spread like wildfire'

This year there have been 529 confirmed measles cases, the majority, 357, were children under ten. But cases of measles are increasing in Britain because low vaccination rates leave children vulnerable

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38 h. ago UN says fuel shortage in Gaza at ‘critical levels’ – Middle East crisis live

A lack of fuel means ‘lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people’, the UN saidIsraeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late on Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital said.Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital. The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago 28 Palestinians including children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians in Gaza including four children

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2 d. ago Britain's 'deadliest' hospitals: NHS Trusts where 'too many' patients are dying, official report shows

Worrying data show that some NHS trusts recorded over a quarter more patient deaths than expected between March 2024 and February this year.

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7 d. ago Israeli strikes kill at least 38 in Gaza as ceasefire talks reach critical point

Benjamin Netanyahu travels to Washington as momentum gathers in negotiations for a US-sponsored deal Israeli warplanes launched a wave of strikes in Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 38 Palestinians, according to hospital officials, as talks over a ceasefire in the devastated territory reached a critical point.Officials at Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis said 18 people were killed by strikes in al-Mawasi, a nearby coastal area that is crowded with tented encampments of those displaced by fighting elsewhere. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 14 Palestinians in Gaza, another 10 people die seeking food

Israeli airstrikes killed 14 people in the Gaza Strip, while another 10 Palestinians were killed separately as they sought food in the embattled enclave, hospital officials said

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9 d. ago Israeli strikes kill 15 in Gaza, while shootings kill 20 people waiting for aid

A hospital official in Gaza says Israeli airstrikes killed 15 Palestinians in Gaza early on Friday, while another 20 people were killed in shootings while waiting for aid

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1 week ago Sikh activist who died in UK could have been poisoned, says pathologist

Family of Avtar Singh Khanda, who was thought to be on Indian authorities’ radar and died in 2023, call for inquestThe family of a Sikh activist who died suddenly in 2023 have made new calls for an inquest after a pathologist found the result of the postmortem exam “does not mean that a poisoning can be completely excluded”.Avtar Singh Khanda, 35, died in June 2023, four days after being admitted to a hospital in Birmingham feeling unwell. The official cause of death was acute myeloid leukaemia, a blood cancer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago An Israeli strike kills 18 Palestinians in central Gaza as turmoil mounts over food distribution

Palestinian hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit a street in central Gaza, killing 18 people

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2 w. ago At least 40 more Palestinians killed seeking aid in Gaza, say medics and officials

Shootings by Israeli forces raise death toll of such incidents in Gaza in last two weeks to more than 500At least 40 Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza have died in new shootings by Israeli forces, local medics and officials said, raising the total killed in the last two weeks in such incidents in the devastated territory to more than 500.Though the fragile ceasefire declared between Israel and Iran has boosted hopes in Gaza that the 20-month-long war there might end soon, there were further Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday and reports of at least two incidents involving Israeli troops opening fire on civilians seeking humanitarian assistance. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘My son went to get flour. He came back in a coffin’: As the world focuses on Iran Palestinians are being shot dead seeking aid

While the world has its attention fixed on a regional war, desperate Palestinians are being killed by the dozen as they seek food at controversial American-run aid sites in Gaza, write Bel Trew and Richard Hall

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3 w. ago Kristi Noem is ‘alert and recovering’ after trip to hospital over allergic reaction, official says

A spokesperson for Homeland Security says that Secretary Kristi Noem was taken to the hospital to treat an allergic reaction but is “alert and recovering.”

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3 w. ago Patients angering NHS staff by secretly filming consultations for TikTok and Instagram

The Society of Radiographers (SoR) is calling on health officials to introduce national guidelines that ban covert recording in hospitals and clinics.

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4 w. ago At least 15 Palestinians shot dead after new flashpoint near Gaza aid distribution centre

Medics at Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals said the victims were approaching the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) yesterday when they were shot.

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