24 h. ago Netanyahu speaks to Pope after three killed in Israeli strike on Gaza church – Middle East crisis live

Leo urges Israeli PM to reach a ceasefire deal and expresses concern over ‘heartbreaking toll’ in regionTwo of Jerusalem’s most senior Christian clerics travelled to Gaza on Friday after a deadly Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory’s only Catholic church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.The Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Theophilos III, headed an “ecclesiastical delegation” to meet local Christians after Thursday’s strike on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, a statement read.Those responsible must be held to account.It is crucial that immediate steps are taken to prevent recurrence of such violence. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Israeli strike on Gaza church kills three and injures priest Pope Francis called daily

Two of the dead named as Pope Leo renews ceasefire call after strike on territory’s only Catholic churchAn Israeli strike has hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people and injuring 10 others including the parish priest, who used to receive daily calls from the late Pope Francis.The Catholic charity Caritas Jerusalem earlier named two of the victims were Saad Salameh, the 60-year-old janitor of the Holy Family church, and Fumayya Ayyad, an 84-year-old woman who was receiving psychological support in a Caritas tent within the church’s compound when the blast occurred. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Israeli strike on Gaza church kills two and injures priest Pope Francis called daily

Pope Leo renews ceasefire call after strike on territory’s only Catholic church injures children and clergyAn Israeli strike has hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing two people and injuring several others including the parish priest, who used to receive daily calls from the late Pope Francis.“Two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike by the Israeli army that hit the Holy Family compound this morning,” the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Latest: 20 die in stampede at Gaza food distribution site as Israeli strikes kill 41 others

A stampede at a food distribution site run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip killed 20 Palestinians on Wednesday

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake | Editorial

Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mountOn Sunday, an Israeli strike killed six Palestinian children – and four adults – as they queued for water in a refugee camp. The deaths of children may be the most terrible part of any war. It is not only the suffering of the innocent and powerless, and the unimaginable pain of surviving parents – as dreadful as those are – but the knowledge of lives ended when they had barely begun, of futures that should have stretched long into the distance severed in an instant.As shocking as Sunday’s deaths were, they are commonplace in Gaza: a classroom-worth of children have been killed each day since the war began. What marked them out was that so many deaths happened at once and publicly; and that Israel’s military felt obliged to acknowledge its responsibility – though without any great contrition. It claimed that a “technical error with the munition” caus...

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3 d. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 93 Palestinians, including several families, health officials say

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes overnight and into Tuesday killed more than 90 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including several families

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5 d. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 30 people including six children gathering water, hospitals say

Six children were killed by an Israeli strike on a water collection point while another three were killed when a home was struck

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6 d. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 19, hospitals say, as ceasefire talks drag on

Gaza health officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 19 people including six children at a water collection point

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7 d. ago A father mourns 2 sons killed in an Israeli strike as hunger worsens in Gaza

A father in Gaza is mourning two young sons who were killed in an Israeli strike outside a clinic in the Gaza Strip, where they had gone to get food supplements

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8 d. ago Almost 800 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food aid since end of May, says UN – Middle East crisis live

Majority of those killed were in the vicinity of sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation The number of people killed by strikes in Gaza on Friday has risen to seven, according to the region’s civil defence agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.Nearly all of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once during the more than 21-month war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people living there. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Israeli strike kills 10 children queuing at Gaza medical clinic, officials say

Aid groups call strike ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’ while ceasefire talks continue

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8 d. ago Israeli strike kills at least 15 people queueing outside medical point in Gaza

Ten children among the dead in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’At least 15 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza, amid intensifying Israeli attacks that left 82 people dead across the strip.The uptick in Israeli bombing came as negotiators said a Gaza ceasefire deal was in sight, but not yet achieved. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza

Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’At least 15 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza, amid intensifying Israeli attacks that left 82 people dead across the strip.The uptick in Israeli bombing came as negotiators said a Gaza ceasefire deal was in sight, but not yet achieved. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 34 Palestinians and 1 soldier killed in Gaza as hopes for imminent truce fade

Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing at least 34 Palestinians, according to local hospitals

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1 week ago Moment Hamas boss is killed in Israeli strike on car in Lebanon is revealed

Footage captured the moment Mehran Mustafa Ba'jur was hunted by the Israeli Defence Forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

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1 week ago Photos show Palestinians mourning after people were killed in Israeli strikes

Health officials in the Palestinian territory said Tuesday that 18 people were killed in Israeli strikes.

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1 week ago Iran's president admits nuke facilities WERE 'severely damaged' in US military strikes and claims in interview with Tucker Carlson that Israel tried to assassinate him in 12

The remarks came less than a month after Israel launched its unprecedented June 13 bombing campaign against Iran , killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists.

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1 week 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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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal

Exclusive: Experts say use of heavy munition in Monday’s strike that killed dozens may constitute a war crimeThe Israeli military used a 500lb (230kg) bomb – a powerful and indiscriminate weapon that generates a massive blast wave and scatters shrapnel over a wide area – when it attacked a target in a crowded beachfront cafe in Gaza on Monday, evidence seen by the Guardian has revealed.Experts in international law said the use of such a munition despite the known presence of many unprotected civilians, including children, women and elderly people, was almost certainly unlawful and may constitute a war crime. Continue reading...

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