Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent EPA Rubble pictured in a separate area of central Gaza on Sunday At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes overnight, including a strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza, according to medics and civil defence officials. The strike targeted Fahmi Al-Jargawi School…
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent James Chater BBC News, London Reuters Israel has intensified its offensive on Gaza in recent days At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip during a half-hour period overnight, according to Palestinian medics. Israeli warplanes struck several locations, including a school in…
The Israeli military has said an “operational misunderstanding” and a “breach of orders” led to the killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza last month. An inquiry into the incident by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found a series of failings. The deputy commander of the unit involved has been dismissed “for providing an incomplete…
Reuters Dozens of people were also wounded in the strike on a multi-storey building in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighbourhood At least 29 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a multi-storey residential building in the east of Gaza City, a local hospital says. The Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said warplanes targeted the…
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza. The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access was…
At least six babies have died in the past two weeks in Gaza due to the cold weather and lack of adequate shelter and heating, Palestinian medics and health officials say. Doctors at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society hospital in Gaza City, in the north, said nine newborn babies suffering from cold injuries had been…
Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, Palestinian medics and rescuers say. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa and Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence agency said at least 30 people had been killed. The civil defence said the dead included 13 children. The…
