3 d. ago Israel destroys a hospital in north Gaza as strikes intensify on Palm Sunday

A wave of Israeli strikes across Gaza hit a hospital, a municipal building, a home and a vehicle, killing at least 21 people, including children, on Sunday.

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3 d. ago Israel intensifies strikes across Gaza, targets hospital in territory’s north

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — Israel struck a hospital in northern Gaza early Sunday, forcing patients to evacuate as attacks intensified. The pre-dawn strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel issued an evacuation warning, according to Gaza’s ministry of health. One patient, a girl, died during the evacuation because medical staff were unable to […]

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7 d. ago Indonesia offers to temporarily shelter wounded and orphaned Palestinians from Gaza

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said Wednesday that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. “We are ready to evacuate those who are injured or traumatized, and orphans, if they want to be evacuated to Indonesia, and we are ready […]

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9 d. ago Rescue efforts from Myanmar’s deadly earthquake wind down as death toll exceeds 3,500

BANGKOK (AP) — Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity, with the death toll from the disaster surpassing 3,500 and still climbing. In the capital, Naypyitaw, people cleared debris and collected wood from their damaged houses […]

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2 w. ago Israel strikes building in southern Beirut, killing at least 4 people

BEIRUT — The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least four people, as the military said it had targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group. The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday for the first time […]

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2 w. ago Israel strikes southern Beirut overnight, saying it targeted Hezbollah official

BEIRUT — The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early Tuesday, saying it targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group. The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and […]

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2 w. ago The Latest: Countries sending humanitarian aid after Myanmar earthquake

BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from Myanmar’s powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake keeps climbing amid rescue efforts. The military government said Saturday that 1,002 people have been killed, with another 2,376 injured and 30 others missing. The earthquake struck midday Friday, followed by several aftershocks, including one that measured 6.4. In Thailand, the quake rocked […]

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3 w. ago UN to reduce staff in Gaza and blames Israel for a strike that killed its employee

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The United Nations said Monday it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer and wounding five others. Israel has denied it was behind the March 19 explosion at the UN guesthouse in central Gaza. […]

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3 w. ago Israel strikes Gaza and orders new evacuation as Palestinian death toll climbs past 50,000

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Residents said tanks had advanced into an area of the southern city of Rafah as the military ordered it evacuated. Gaza’s Health Ministry said the […]

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4 w. ago Israeli air strikes across Gaza shatter ceasefire with Hamas

JERUSALEM — Renewed Israeli air strikes in Gaza early Tuesday morning spelled an end to the uneasy ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched the strikes just after 2 a.m. Israeli time, ordered by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as a result of the terror group’s refusal to release more hostages. Unverified numbers […]

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4 w. ago Israel launches ‘extensive’ strikes against Hamas as hostage, ceasefire talks stall

'This follows Hamas's repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all of the proposals it has received,' the Israeli prime minister's office stated

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