Red Cross warns against Gaza evacuation
The Red Cross warned on Saturday that any Israeli efforts to evacuate Gaza City would put residents at risk, as Israel’s military tightened its siege on the area ahead of a major planned offensive.
The Red Cross warned on Saturday that any Israeli efforts to evacuate Gaza City would put residents at risk, as Israel’s military tightened its siege on the area ahead of a major planned offensive.
The Israeli military declared Gaza City ‘a dangerous combat zone’ on Friday ahead of a looming offensive to conquer the Palestinian territory’s largest city after almost two years of devastating war.
UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at reports of ‘enforced disappearances’ of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, urging Israel to end the ‘heinous crime’.
Journalists in the UK rallied Wednesday in central London in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza, in the wake of two Israeli military strikes earlier this week that killed five journalists.
The head of Save the Children described in horrific detail Wednesday the slow agony of starving children in Gaza, saying they are so weak they do not cry.
The Israeli military pressed operations around Gaza City on Wednesday, as president Donald Trump prepared to host a White House meeting on post-war plans for the shattered Palestinian territory...
Gaza mediator Qatar said Tuesday that it was ‘still waiting’ for Israel’s response to a proposal for a truce and hostage release deal in the Palestinian territory after Hamas agreed to the framework more than a week ago...
The World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the aid Israel is allowing to enter Gaza remains a ‘drop in the ocean’, days after famine was formally declared in the war-torn Palestinian territory.
FOUR Al Jazeera journalists, including globally admired correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in Gaza in an Israeli air strike on Aug 10...
Gaza’s civil defence agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Reuters, the Associated Press and Al Jazeera mourning their slain contributors.
ISRAEL war of genocide is not about October 7; it is not about freeing Israeli captives. It is, first and foremost, about preserving a racist Jewish governing coalition and seizing a historic opportunity while a submissive administration in Washington looks the other way. The aim is to advance a biblical expansionist project and create the conditions for ‘self’ ethnic cleansing...
Israeli forces killed four aid seekers traveling on Sunday through a military zone south of Gaza City — an area regularly used by Palestinians trying to reach a food distribution point, a hospital and witnesses said...
Turkey’s First Lady wrote to her US counterpart Melania Trump on Saturday, asking her to show the same concern for Gaza’s children as she has shown for those of Ukraine.
Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory.
The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming ‘systematic obstruction’ of aid by Israel during more than 22 months of war, with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly dismissing the findings.
Israel hammered Gaza City and its outskirts overnight, residents said Thursday, as the military announced it had taken initial steps in its push to capture Hamas’s last major stronghold...
Israel’s defence minister approved a plan on Wednesday for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60,000 reservists, piling pressure on Hamas as mediators push for a ceasefire...
A senior Israeli official on Tuesday said the government stood firm on its call for the release of all hostages in any future Gaza deal, after Hamas accepted a new truce proposal.
A Hamas source said on Monday that the Palestinian militants had agreed to a new proposal from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, devastated by more than 22 months of war between the Islamist group and Israel...
Rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of enacting a ‘deliberate policy’ of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory...
Demonstrators across Israel called on Sunday for an end to the Gaza war and a deal to release hostages still held by militants, a push lambasted by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies...
The US government said Saturday it is suspending visitor visas for Gazans after a far-right influencer with the ear of president Donald Trump complained that wounded Palestinians had been allowed to seek medical treatment in the United States...
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks killed at least 36 people on Saturday, warning that intensifying strikes on a Gaza City neighbourhood were placing its remaining residents in mortal danger...
Leaders of Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh on Saturday protested against Israel’s recent decision to occupy Gaza and called on an immediate end to aggression and mass killings in Palestine. ..
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has become a ‘problem’, adding she would try to put pressure on Israel over the Gaza war as her country currently holds the EU presidency...
A young Palestinian woman with severe wasting who was flown from Gaza to Italy this week for treatment has died, the hospital said on Saturday...
The UN human rights office said Friday that at least 1,760 Palestinians had been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August...
THE Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide...
THERE is something profoundly disquieting about a moral catastrophe unfolding under the glaring light of international attention—only to be met with an American shrug and a diplomatic shrug-off. Israel’s unfolding plan to seize full military and administrative control of Gaza, paired with the dismaying acquiescence of the United States, ought to alarm every...
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas condemned what it called ‘aggressive’ Israeli ground incursions in Gaza City...