Israel kills 40 Palestinians in Gaza airstrikes amid fears of wider war
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli forces stepped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics said, in further battle with Hamas-led militants as Israel braced for potential wider war in the region. Israeli airstrikes hit a cluster of houses in central Gaza’s Al-Bureij camp, killing at least 15 people, […]
Israel kills dozens as it steps up Gaza bombardment
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 39 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah. Among those killed on Saturday were local journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife and two children in an Israeli strike on their home […]
Israel pounds central Gaza camps, deepens invasion of Rafah
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Several Israeli air strikes in the central and northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens of others, according to medics, while tanks deepened their invasion into Rafah in the south, residents said. Israeli planes struck a house in Al-Nuseirat camp, killing two people and […]
Israeli forces move deeper into Rafah in night of heavy battle
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of a crowded district in the heart of Rafah on Wednesday during one of the most intense nights of bombardment of the southern Gaza city since Israel launched its offensive there this month. Israel’s assault on Rafah on Gaza’s southern edge has set hundreds of thousands […]
Israeli strikes kill at least 29 Gazans awaiting aid, say Palestinian officials
Updated: 10:45am (AEDT) Cairo, Egypt Reuters At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Gaza’s health ministry said. In the first incident, Palestinian health officials in the Hamas-ruled strip said eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution centre in […]