39 h. ago Israeli strikes across Gaza kill more than 40 people as Israel prepares to ramp up its offensive

Hospital officials say Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 48 people, including women and children

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3 d. ago Pope Francis donated a popemobile to serve as a mobile health unit for Gaza children

Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza, officials said Monday

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3 d. ago Middle East crisis live: Gaza population to be moved as part of ‘intensive’ offensive, Netanyahu says

Israeli PM says people will be moved for their ‘own protection’ but does not give details about how much territory will be seizedIsrael to expand Gaza operations to establish ‘sustained presence’One of Pope Francis’s popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip, fulfilling one of his final wishes, the Vatican said yesterday.The vehicle, used by the late pontiff during his 2014 visit to the Holy Land, is being outfitted with diagnostic and emergency medical equipment to help young patients in the Palestinian territory, where health services have been devastated by the Israeli invasion. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Francis’s popemobile to become a mobile clinic for children in Gaza

Catholic charity says the late pontiff endorsed the idea of creating a ‘vehicle of hope’ to deliver medical aidJust over a decade ago, the converted Mitsubishi whisked Pope Francis through the streets of Bethlehem before it was left to gather dust. Now, in keeping with one of the late pontiff’s last wishes, the popemobile is being given a second life – as a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip.In a region ravaged by more than 18 months of war, the initiative is both symbolic and practical, said Peter Brune, the secretary general of the Catholic charity Caritas Sweden. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago Desperate children and adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid

Young children and adults in Gaza frantically wave pots and pans at charity workers

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6 d. ago Gaza blockade: a Palestinian widow, her children and a cupboard that is almost bare

Ibtisam Ghalia and her four children are just one of the families living on brink of starvation with no sign of an end to blockadeEvery day, Ibtisam Ghalia and her four children count their remaining stocks of food. These are meagre: a kilo or so of beans, a bag of lentils, a little salt, some herbs, spices, and enough flour for half a dozen flatbreads cooked on a griddle over a fire of wood splinters, waste plastic and cardboard.In the two months since Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza, stopping food, medicine, fuel and anything else from entering the devastated territory, Ghalia’s “cupboard” has slowly diminished. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Joy as girls from Gaza become first to arrive in UK for vital treatment

Seriously-ill Rama, 12, and Ghena, five, will receive specialised care in London after becoming the first children from Gaza to get to the UK for vital treatment

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8 d. ago Two Gazan children arrive in UK for treatment amid brutal Israel aid blockade

The Government has confirmed that two children from Gaza, whose conditions are not linked to the brutal Middle East conflict, are receiving treatment in a London hospital

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8 d. ago Middle East latest: At least 12 killed overnight by Israeli strikes in Gaza

At least 12 people including children were killed overnight in Gaza by Israeli strikes, hospital workers said Wednesday

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1 week ago For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel

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1 week ago Deadly Israeli airstrike kills 10 people: Bombs flatten three

Strikes across the region have killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours, according to health officials.

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1 week ago ‘We are not numbers’: Journalist who lost over 21 family members in Gaza releases new book of Palestinian voices

Over 51,000 people have been killed in Gaza, the vast majority being women and children

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2 w. ago Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble

Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble

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2 w. ago Hundreds of Buddies protest against killing of innocent civilians in Palestine

Organised by Paisley For Palestine, a rally was held at County Square earlier this month as part of efforts to highlight the plight of children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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2 w. ago An Israeli bomb took a teen’s arm in Gaza. She’s healing with a family in Philadelphia

Tasneem Sharif Abbas, 16, flew with her sister to the US, where doctors awaited and volunteers cheered their arrivalDozens of people across the world were in non-stop communication for several months to arrange the arrival of Tasneem Sharif Abbas to the US. Abbas’s entire life changed when a bomb dropped on her family’s home in Gaza on 31 October 2023. A piece of metal severed her arm and she blacked out as rubble fell on her. Soon after, her arm was amputated at a local Gaza hospital. “This is not a movie or a fictional story. This is the reality I have lived,” Abbas said in a statement. “This is just a glimpse of the dark days that have turned my life into a nightmare.”Last year, the 16-year-old and an accompanying guardian, her adult sister Ashjan who is not injured, evacuated to Egypt, where they spent several months aboard a medical ship. The journey to fit Abbas with a prosthetic arm began with a 24-hour-flight from Cairo to New York, where volunteers met them in the airport d...

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2 w. ago Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 17 people including children as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance in Jerusalem

Events

3 w. ago Woman dies after lying in agony on freezing ground for two hours

Josephine Ellis had just finished her appointment at a mobile clinic next to the Hoveton and Wroxham Medical Centre near Norfolk last year when she suffered a nasty slip

Events

3 w. ago ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

Amid the ruins and with fuel scarce, the animals provide vital transport for the injured as well as goods and belongingsIt felt like an “earthquake from the sky” when an Israeli airstrike hit the clinic Dr Saif Alden had left just minutes earlier. Alden had been treating animals hurt and abandoned amid Gaza’s destruction. They survived but the equipment and medication the mobile clinic needed to function was destroyed.Still, the team saw it as a setback, not a defeat. Alden has spent the month since the airstrike traversing Gaza to scavenge the tools needed to resume operations. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Israeli airstrike on Gaza apartment block kills at least 23 Palestinians

Attack on densely populated Shijaiyah area of Gaza City kills at least eight women and as many children

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