Displaced Gaza newborn freezes to death and twin fights for his life as rain floods tents
Gaza Reuters Yahya Al-Batran woke up in the early hours of Sunday morning to find his wife, Noura trying to wake their newborn twin sons Jumaa and Ali as they lay together in the makeshift tent the family occupied in an encampment in the central Gaza Strip. Intense winter cold and heavy rain across the […]
Pope calls Gaza airstrikes “cruelty” after Israeli minister’s criticism
Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli Government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people. Francis opened his annual Christmas address to the Catholic cardinals who lead […]
UNRWA ban could kill more children in Gaza, UNICEF says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Israel’s decision to ban the UN relief agency UNRWA could result in the deaths of more children and represent a form of collective punishment for Gazans if fully implemented, UN agencies said on Tuesday. A law passed by Israel on Monday to ban the UN Palestinian refugee agency from operating inside Israel […]
Israeli attacks in Gaza kill 35 Palestinians but pauses allow third day of polio vaccinations
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli forces killed at least 35 Palestinians across Gaza on Tuesday as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian officials said, but brief pauses in fighting allowed medics to conduct a third day of polio vaccinations for children. Among those killed were four women in the southern city of Rafah and eight people near […]
Israeli fire kills dozens in Gaza, polio vaccinations in full swing
Cairo, Egypt/Gaza Reuters Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian officials said on Monday, while medics conducted a second day of polio vaccinations for children in the enclave. Palestinian and UN officials said more than 80,000 children had been vaccinated […]
UN to vaccinate Gaza’s children against polio during pauses in fighting
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The United Nations will start vaccinating some 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip against polio on Sunday, a campaign that relies on daily eight-hour pauses in fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in specific areas of the besieged enclave. The complex campaign, which is targeting children under age 10, follows confirmation last […]
Essay: Rebuilding Gaza was seen as a ‘Herculean’ task before 7th October; six months of bombing has led to crises that will long outlive the war
In an article first published on The Conversation, scholar and systems engineer DIMA NAZAL looks at the cost of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza…