4 d. ago More than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel

The Gaza Health Ministry says that the Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war has climbed past 55,000

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1 week ago Aid distribution centres in Gaza to close following Palestinian deaths

US-backed group temporarily shuts hubs after health ministry in the strip says Israeli soldiers killed 27 Gazans

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2 w. ago At least 31 people in Gaza 'killed in Israeli attack' near aid distribution site

The Palestinian health ministry, run by Hamas, claimed 31 people had been killed by Israelis near an aid centre, but there are conflicting reports over the numbers and causes of the deaths

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2 w. ago Live updates: Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 14, medics say

Medics in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 14 people while Hamas is reviewing a new Israeli-approved ceasefire proposal after giving it an initial cool response

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2 w. ago Live updates: Chaos and gunfire at a new Gaza aid distribution hub leave 1 dead and 48 hurt

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least one Palestinian was killed and 48 were wounded when gunshots were fired on a crowd that overran a new aid distribution site in the war-battered enclave that was set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation

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2 w. ago Malawi battles mpox as cases of the infectious disease surge in Africa

Medicine shortages plus limited testing and hospital capacity exacerbated by withdrawal of USAID as outbreak gathers pace across countries in the regionMalawi’s ministry of health has announced three new cases of mpox in the capital, Lilongwe, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 11 since the country’s first was reported in April.Malawi is one of 16 countries in Africa reporting mpox outbreaks as health officials battle with vaccine shortages as well as limited testing and hospital capacity. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israeli strikes over past 24 hours killed at least 38 people in Gaza, Palestinian officials say

Civil defence agency says some people are still under rubble after attacks on Deir al-Balah and JabaliyaIsraeli strikes over the past 24 hours have killed at least 38 people in Gaza, health officials in the Palestinian territory have said, bringing the death toll to more than 100 in less than three days.An attack on a tent housing displaced people in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed a mother and her two children, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Another strike in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza killed at least five, including two women and a child, it added. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Nine of a doctor's 10 children are killed in Israel's latest strikes in Gaza

Gaza's Health Ministry says the bodies of 79 people killed by Israel strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours

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3 w. ago Turkish officials admit they've NO IDEA how British mother's heart went missing in hospital after she died on holiday fuelling growing suspicions

The Ministry of Health in Turkey has spoken out after a British mother died in mysterious circumstances on a family holiday and allegedly had her heart removed.

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3 w. ago A biblical hatred is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict – and blinding them to reason | Jonathan Freedland

Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see itI sat this week with Hussein Agha, a man who has given his working life to seeking peace between Israelis and Palestinians, negotiating from the Palestinian side of the table. He was gloomier than I have ever seen him, adamant that peace between the two sides can never, ever come. Because, Agha explained, this conflict was not about mere lines on a map or forms of words, the goods in which diplomats trade. This was about emotions, and specifically hatreds. Hatreds that, he feared, are becoming too murderous to contain. “It’s biblical,” he said.What he had in mind was the fury that drove Hamas to slaughter around 1,200 Israelis on a sleepy Saturday morning nearly 20 months ago and the fury that has driven the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to bombard Gaza ever since, killing more than 50,000, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, and, over the last 80 days,...

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4 w. ago Israel to resume entry of ‘basic’ humanitarian aid into Gaza, Netanyahu’s office says – Israel

Prime minister’s office says Israel will allow some food into Gaza to prevent a ‘hunger crisis’In an earlier post, we reported on the dire situation at the Indonesian hospital, which is reportedly under siege by Israeli forces.Now Gaza’s health ministry has said that all public hospitals in the north of the territory were “out of service”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Israel begins ground operation in Gaza after latest airstrikes kill more than 135

Israel is preparing for a new ground offensive to achieve ‘operational control’

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4 w. ago Israel begins ground operation in Gaza after latest airstrikes kill more than 100

Israel is preparing for a new ground offensive to achieve ‘operational control’

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4 w. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in Gaza Strip with ‘complete families’ wiped out, health ministry says

Israel is preparing for a new ground offensive to achieve ‘operational control’

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4 w. ago Israeli air strikes overnight kill 100 Palestinians across the Gaza strip as ceasefire talks appear to stall

Israel has expanded its strikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of people since Thursday, in preparation for a new ground offensive to achieve 'operational control' in parts of Gaza.

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4 w. ago Israel systematically targeting hospitals, Gaza health ministry says, after scores die in new IDF strikes – Israel

Gaza officials says hospitals are overwhelmed but are being repeatedly hit by Israel as reports say more than 100 people died in new strikesThe Israeli military said this morning it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel, where sirens sounded in several areas.The Iranian backed Houthi rebel group said they had targeted Israel’s main airport, Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, with two ballistic missiles in an overnight operation. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in Gaza Strip, with ‘complete families’ wiped out

Israel is preparing for a new ground offensive to achieve ‘operational control’

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4 w. ago Israel airstrikes kill at least 75 in Gaza in night of terror with kids among heartbreaking victims

Israel's latest barrage of airstrikes in Gaza has claimed at least 75 lives overnight, with women and children among the victims, after Benjamin Netanyahu broke a ceasefire deal earlier this year

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4 w. ago Israel launches major new offensive in Gaza after airstrikes kill more than 100

Hundreds killed in initial stages of Israel’s new operation in Gaza hours after Trump leaves Middle East with no talks of ceasefire

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