Six newborn babies have frozen to death in the Gaza Strip due to the cold weather in the war-torn enclave, a Palestinian health official said. “Six infants have died of cold in Gaza,” Marwan al-Hams, director general of field hospitals in Gaza, said. He appealed for access to electric generators …
Read More »Gaza war death toll tops 43,000
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that more than 43,000 Palestinians, half of them women and children, have died in Gaza during the year-long conflict. In recent days, a further 96 casualties have been reported as fighting intensifies in the north of the Gaza Strip. “Israeli forces recently raided …
Read More »Lebanon: 8 dead and 2,000 injured in pager explosion
At least eight people were killed and over 2,700 others were wounded across the country when their handheld pagers exploded, lebanon’s health ministry said. Those injured include medics and Hezbollah fighters. The armed group has blamed Israel for the detonations which one official has described as its biggest security breach …
Read More »Elon Musk announces activation of Starlink in Gaza hospital
While the Gaza Strip is deprived of the internet due to Israeli bombing following the October 7 attacks, a hospital in the enclave benefits from humanitarian internet access thanks to Starlink, Elon Musk’s company. Starlink continues to expand around the world, especially when telecom networks are destroyed. Elon Musk has …
Read More »Gaza doctors deliver baby girl from mother killed in Israeli airstrike
A baby girl has been delivered from the womb of her mother who lay dying from injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Rafah. “The mother was 30 weeks pregnant and doctors at Kuwaiti hospital performed an emergency caesarean section in a bid to save her,” …
Read More »Pope Francis renews call for peace
Pope Francis renewed his call for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine as he pray for peace in Palestine and Israel on Sunday. “I renew my appeal not to give in to the logic of claiming war,” Francis told a gathered audience in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican …
Read More »27,365 dead so far in Israeli attacks on GAZA
At least 27,585 people have been killed and 66,978 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023. The Israeli army once again bombed Khan Younès in the south of the territory on Sunday as the war enters its fifth month on Wednesday February 7. “The Palestinian Islamist movement …
Read More »74% of the dead are children and women in Gaza
As the deadly fighting continues in the Gaza Strip on November 23, women and children are the main victims, according to reports. Commenting on the situation, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency said that 74% of the dead were children and women. A truce agreement …
Read More »Israeli army demands evacuation of Indonesian hospital in Gaza
The Israeli army has called for the evacuation of the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip within four hours, a Palestinian Ministry of Health official said. The Israeli army wants to enter the hospital for “military operations” and is therefore demanding its evacuation within four hours, Ministry of Health …
Read More »South Africa urges UN to protect Gaza
South African authorities have said the UN should deploy “a rapid protection force” to intervene in the Israel-Gaza conflict “to protect the civilian population from further bombardment”. In a hard-hitting statement, the international relations ministry highlighted the number of children who have been killed so far in the conflict and …
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