Israeli forces launched an operation early Monday in and around Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, with witnesses reporting air strikes and tanks near the complex crowded with patients and displaced people. The pre-dawn raid came at a time of growing concern over a looming Israeli ground invasion of Gaza's crowded far-southern city
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Gazans break fast without ‘joy of Ramadan’ as Israel-Hamas war
War pushing Gaza to famine, UN warns
The Israel-Hamas war is pushing Gaza towards famine, the United Nations warned ahead of an expected Security Council vote Friday on a resolution to boost aid to the Palestinian territory but not call for a ceasefire. Separate diplomatic efforts were also underway for a fresh pause in the worst-ever Gaza war,
UN warns of socioeconomic impacts of Israel-Hamas war
One month into the war in Gaza, Palestine has already seen major setbacks in development that will have severe ramifications for the people of Palestine that will impact any future efforts toward its economic recovery. A new report from UNDP and the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA)
More than one journalist dying per day in Israel-Gaza conflict
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Gaza-Israel war has been the deadliest conflict for media workers since the organisation began counting statistics in 1992. At the time of writing, the committee said at least 39 journalists and media workers had been killed in the month since the war began.
BSAF urges world leaders to end Israel-Hamas war
Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF) has called upon all the world leaders to take immediate action to stop the Israel-Hamas war immediately. “World Leaders must come forward to take the strongest and most effective initiative to stop the Israel-Hamas war immediately. We do not want War, we want Peace in the
Hezbollah chief to break silence on Israel-Hamas war
Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday will break weeks of silence since war broke out between Hamas and Israel, in a speech that could impact the region as the Gaza conflict rages. After Hamas militants launched an unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon's southern border
The killings in Gaza should stain our moral conscience
Thank you for your presence here with us in New York, and for the special dedication that Brazil has given to peace in our region. I also pay special tribute to our briefers, and to their teams’ dedicated work in the most unimaginable circumstances on the ground in the Gaza Strip. Commissioner-General
Children are the ultimate pawns and victims in Israel-Hamas war
In 1903, a local mob killed 49 Jews, including several children, and raped and wounded 600 others, in the city of Kishinev, then part of the Russian Empire. These three days of violence later became known as the Kishinev pogrom. A few days later, the Jewish-Russian poet Hayim Nahman Bialik published
Biden to address US on Israel-Hamas war, Ukraine
US President Joe Biden will give a primetime speech on Thursday about the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Wednesday. Biden will speak at 8 pm (0000 GMT) in the Oval Office, from which presidents have traditionally addressed the nation at times