5 d. ago Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundationMore than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies.Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago At least 21 Palestinians killed while heading to Gaza aid hub, hospital says

At least 21 people were killed as they went to receive aid from an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a nearby hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies

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7 d. ago Israel reportedly accepts US ceasefire proposal but Hamas says it fails to end war

Israeli forces kill at least 70 Palestinians in strikes since Thursday and order closure of last remaining hospital in northern Gaza

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8 d. ago Discussions on US ceasefire proposal are ‘ongoing’, says White House – Middle East crisis live

Washington says proposal has been submitted to Hamas that has been ‘backed and supported’ by IsraelHere are the latest pictures from the West Bank, courtesy of the newswiresIsraeli strikes killed at least 13 Palestinians overnight in Gaza, the Associated Press reports. According to local hospitals, Four were killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City late Wednesday, and another eight, including two women and three children, were killed in a strike on a home in Jabaliya. A strike on a built-up refugee camp in central Gaza killed one person and wounded 18. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants are embedded in populated areas. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Netanyahu tells hostages’ families that Israel has accepted ceasefire proposal from US, say reports – Middle East crisis live

Proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkoff stipulates the release of 10 living hostages held in Gaza and the return of 18 bodies in exchange for a 60-day ceasefireHere are the latest pictures from the West Bank, courtesy of the newswiresIsraeli strikes killed at least 13 Palestinians overnight in Gaza, the Associated Press reports. According to local hospitals, Four were killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City late Wednesday, and another eight, including two women and three children, were killed in a strike on a home in Jabaliya. A strike on a built-up refugee camp in central Gaza killed one person and wounded 18. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants are embedded in populated areas. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Israel: Scottish nurse shares ‘haunting’ experience of working in Gaza hospital, involving two

Mel Graham worked at field hospital in Al Mawas

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8 d. ago Scots nurse haunted by memories of dead toddler in Gaza field hospital

Mel Graham has given a shocking first-hand account of life in Al Mawasi, in war-torn Gaza, after returning from two months in a UK Government-funded emergency field hospital.

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9 d. ago Hamas’s Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar has been killed, Netanyahu claims

The brother of deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reportedly the target of an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza

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1 week ago Tragedy for doctor as nine of her 10 children are killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza, hospital says

Horrifying footage shared by the Hamas-run Palestinian Civil Defence shows the bodies of young children being pulled from the rubble

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2 w. ago Israel wrecks last functioning hospital in north Gaza as food aid begins to trickle in

Israeli tanks and drones strike Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza while fighter jets bomb southern Lebanon

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2 w. ago Mothers and their babies face starvation in Gaza, where hospitals are overwhelmed

The U.N. children’s agency says more than 9,000 children have been treated for malnutrition in Gaza this year, and food security experts say tens of thousands of cases are expected in the coming year

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2 w. ago ‘No flour, no food, no water’: Israel continues to pound Gaza as aid still struggles to get through

The Israeli military continued its renewed attack on Gaza overnight on Wednesday, killing at least 82 including a week-old baby and several women, Gaza’s hospital officials said

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2 w. ago In Gaza, 45 killed in strikes as desperately needed aid fails to reach Palestinians

Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday have killed at least 45 people, including several women and a week-old infant

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2 w. ago Two of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli forces, staff say

Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the facilities

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2 w. ago AP PHOTOS: Israeli strikes across Gaza overnight kill dozens

Israel says it has launched “extensive” new ground operations in Gaza.

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2 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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2 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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2 w. ago Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 75 people, hospitals and medics say

Hospitals and medics in the Gaza Strip say Israeli strikes across the Palestinian enclave killed at least 75 people

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3 w. ago 54 people killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says

A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis

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3 w. ago A grim lottery: as Israel bombs hospitals, some Gaza children are granted rare exit permits

The al Astal brothers are among the unlucky Palestinians who are fighting their own battle against cancer while stuck in a war zoneIt was a short distance but a very long journey from a bombed out hospital in Gaza to the Jordanian border. Zeinab al Astal arrived with her two sick sons as dusk was falling on Wednesday evening, and she seemed stunned they had made it at all.Twenty four hours earlier she had been watching chunks of ceiling crash down to the floor around them, after Israel bombed the European hospital in Khan Younis where they were staying. Continue reading...

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