While serving as a contractor and senior adviser for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Alex Smith had a broad mandate. He was tasked with offering insight on issues concerning gender, infectious disease, nutrition, and the health of mothers and children. And all of those issues converged in Gaza, as Israel’s siege unfolded. The … Read more
The World Health Organization has condemned Israel’s storming of a vital hospital in northern Gaza, saying assaults on medical facilities are a “death sentence” for thousands of Palestinians and that “this horror must end”. An Israeli military assault on the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday put the last major health facility in northern Gaza out … Read more
Israeli soldiers have stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last remaining medical facility in the northern Gaza Strip, torching large sections and ordering hundreds of people to leave. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Friday that contact had been lost with staff inside the hospital in Beit Lahiya, which has been under siege and heavy pressure … Read more
Journalists from Al-Quds Today were covering events at al-Awda Hospital when their vehicle was struck. Five journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the vicinity of a hospital in central Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities and media reports. The journalists from the Al-Quds Today channel were covering events near al-Awda Hospital, located in … Read more
Khan Younis, Gaza – The face of Samar Ahmed, 37, shows clear signs of exhaustion. It is not just because she has five children, nor that they have been displaced several times since the start of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza 14 months ago and are now living in cramped, cold conditions in a makeshift … Read more
Defence Minister Israel Katz warns Houthi rebels that Israel will ‘behead’ its leaders as it did to Hamas. Israel’s Minister of Defence Israel Katz has for the first time publicly acknowledged that his country assassinated Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, warning that the Yemen-based Houthis will also be struck a “severe blow”. Speaking on Monday … Read more
The UK denies entry to a four-year-old amputee to receive treatment. Fifty British MPs have called for children from Gaza to receive medical care in the United Kingdom. It was prompted by the UK’s denial of treatment to a four-year-old Palestinian boy who lost both his legs in an Israeli attack. British hospitals have treated … Read more
NewsFeed Ramez al- Souri is a Palestinian Christian living in Gaza. He’s struggling to find hope and joy during the Christmas season, while surrounded by the constant loss and destruction of the war. Published On 23 Dec 202423 Dec 2024
NewsFeed Israeli forces have bombed the UN-run, Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School, in southern Khan Younis. The attack continues Israel’s repeated pattern of targeting former school buildings, with some sheltering up to 65,000 displaced Palestinians. Published On 16 Dec 202416 Dec 2024
Israeli forces have bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building, witnesses told Al Jazeera, as the death toll from several attacks across the besieged territory, including in Beit Hanoon, Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp rises. According to the latest report from Gaza’s … Read more