As hostages are expected to be released today by Hamas following a truce, Israel has warned against returning to north Gaza. Israel dropped leaflets from planes saying the war not over. Meanwhile, children had pets in their arms, others with their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs, headed home on Friday. They […]
Israeli soldiers escorted journalists through a war-ravaged landscape to Gaza’s largest hospital Wednesday, to show them a tunnel shaft they said was part of a vast underground network Hamas uses for military purposes. For weeks Al-Shifa hospital in the northern Gaza Strip has been the focal point of the fight between Israel and the […]
Six Palestinians were shot dead in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry said. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers across the West Bank since the Hamas attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, according to […]
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Tuesday his militant movement was nearing a truce agreement with Israel, according to a statement sent by his office to AFP. “We are close to reaching a deal on a truce,” Haniyeh said, according to the statement. Negotiators have been working to seal a deal to allow […]
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said it targeted troops in northern Israel with drones, artillery and missiles on Monday, claiming a string of new attacks. The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7. Hezbollah fighters targeted soldiers west of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel “with three attack […]
Emily turned nine on Friday. Like many little girls the world over, she loves to sing and to dance like Beyonce. But unlike those other girls, Emily “spent her birthday in the Gaza tunnels”, one of the scores of hostages snatched by Hamas during its deadly October 7 attack on Israel, according to her […]
The Israeli military on Sunday said it had uncovered a tunnel under Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital that stretched 55-metres beneath the complex where troops have been conducting a major operation. “IDF troops exposed a 55-meter-long terror tunnel 10 metres deep underneath the Shifa hospital complex,” which ran under the hospital and ended at a blast […]
Gaza’s Hamas government said Sunday the death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory had reached 13,000 since war began on October 7. The Hamas government said more than 5,500 children were among the dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded. Its health ministry has previously […]
Hundreds of people fled on foot Saturday after Israel’s army ordered the evacuation of Gaza’s main hospital where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by the war between Israel and Hamas. An AFP journalist witnessed the movement, on a road leading south, but health officials in the Hamas-ruled territory said […]
The health ministry, under the control of Hamas, reported on Friday that 24 patients at a hospital in conflict-ridden Gaza had succumbed within 48 hours due to power failures, while Israeli forces were conducting searches in the facility for potential Hamas hideouts. This news was released shortly after Israel consented to a US […]
