Tag: Gaza Strip

6 Killed, Many Houses Destroyed As Israeli Tanks Advance Into North Gaza

July 1, 2024 admin

The 6 bodies from the Zurub family were transferred to Nasser Hospital in the nearby city of Khan Younis. Cairo/Gaza: Israeli forces advanced further on Sunday into the Shejaia neighbourhood of northern Gaza and also pushed deeper into western and central Rafah in the south, killing at least six Palestinians and destroying several homes, residents…

World

Israel may have violated laws of war in Gaza campaign, UN rights office says

June 19, 2024 admin

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. File | Photo Credit: AFP Israeli forces may have repeatedly violated fundamental principles of the laws of war and failed to distinguish between civilians and fighters in their Gaza Strip military campaign, the United Nations human rights office said on June 19. In a report assessing…

World

Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

June 1, 2024 admin

Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. These are some of the conditions at Israel’s only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained by the military in the Gaza Strip, three people who have worked there…

World

Israel War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz Threatens To Quit Unless Benjamin Netanyahu Approves Gaza Plan

May 18, 2024 admin

Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Benny Gantz for his demands Jerusalem: Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said Saturday he would resign from the body unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip. “The war cabinet must formulate and approve by June 8 an action plan that will lead to the realisation…

World

Watch | Israel’s Rafah invasion | Explained

May 18, 2024 admin

The pre-war population of Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza strip sharing a border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, was 1,70,000. Today, seven months after Israel launched its war on Gaza, as many as 1.5 million people are living in Rafah. Many of them are camped on the streets and beaches, while others are cramped…

World

US military says first aid shipment has been driven across a newly built US pier into the Gaza Strip

May 17, 2024 admin

A Palestinian youth walks on a jetty in Gaza City with a view of navy vessels off the coast as part of a “maritime corridor” announced by US Central Command (CENTCOM) on May 17, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. | Photo Credit: AFP Trucks carrying badly needed…

World

U.S. military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on

May 16, 2024 admin

The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on May 16, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after U.S….

World

Turkey halts trade with Israel over Gaza humanitarian crisis

May 3, 2024 admin

File picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Photo Credit: AP Turkey has halted all exports and imports to and from Israel, citing the escalating humanitarian situation in Gaza, announced the Turkish Ministry of Trade, Al Jazeera reported. “Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” the Ministry said…

World

Israel concerned about possible ICC arrest warrants as pressure mounts over war in Gaza

April 29, 2024 admin

Israeli officials on April 29 appeared to be increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants against the country’s leaders, as international pressure mounts over its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and into Monday killed at least 22 people,…

World

Gaza | Premature baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies after 5 days in an incubator

April 26, 2024 admin

Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb shortly…

World