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Israel kills 34 people in Gaza, say health officials, ahead of U.N. meeting

September 21, 2025 admin

Israeli strikes killed at least 34 people in Gaza City overnight, including children, said health officials on Sunday (September 21, 2025), as Israel presses ahead with its offensive in the famine-stricken city and several countries prepare to recognise a Palestinian state. Health officials at Shifa Hospital, where most of the bodies were brought, said the…

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Mass displacement, hunger, and death toll

September 15, 2025 admin

When Israel launched its war on Gaza, following the October 7, 2023 cross-border attack by Hamas — which killed at least 1,200 people — it declared two objectives: the destruction of Hamas and the release of the 251 hostages taken by the Palestinian militant group. Twenty-two months later, both goals remain largely unmet….

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Thousands protest Israeli siege of Gaza near Venice Film Festival

August 31, 2025 admin

Thousands of people protested on Saturday (August 31, 2025) against Israel’s siege of Gaza on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, seeking to move the spotlight from movie drama to real-world trauma. Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast Italy, the demonstration began in the early evening a few kilometres from the festival where…

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Israel Gaza war: what is a famine

August 27, 2025 admin

Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, during treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital, in Deir Al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 2024. (File photo) | Photo Credit: Mohammed Salem A. On August 22, 2025, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed that conditions in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City,…

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Palestinians Starve As Hamas And Israel Battle For Control Of Gaza

April 1, 2024 admin

Some aid groups have accused Israel of using hunger as a weapon in its war against Hamas. A top Hamas police commander met in mid-March with the heads of a Gaza clan who’d been commandeering aid meant for hungry Palestinians. He told them to stop taking the shipments or they’d be killed. A week later,…

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4 More Gaza Children Die Of “Malnutrition And Dehydration”, Says Health Ministry

March 1, 2024 admin

The deaths occurred at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza (File) Four more children have died of “malnutrition and dehydration” in war-torn Gaza, the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry said on Friday, the latest such reported deaths as famine warnings mount. The deaths occurred at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said…

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