Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills four, wounds 17

An Israeli air strike on a Gaza hospital Sunday killed four people and wounded 17, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The strike at Al-Aqsa hospital was witnessed by a World Health Organization team sent there to assess needs and to collect incubators for the north of Gaza, Tedros said in

Israeli strike on Lebanese house kills five: state media

At least five people were killed Saturday, four from the same family, and nine wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon, the country's official National News Agency reported. Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement and Israel have traded deadly cross-border fire on a near-daily basis since war broke out

Expanding Israeli settlements a war crime: UN

Expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes "a war crime" and risks eliminating "any practical possibility" of a viable Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday. Volker Turk said there had been a drastic acceleration in Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied West Bank, at

Foreign Minister to join OIC meeting on Israeli aggression

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud, now in Turkiye, will attend an extraordinary meeting of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah on March 5 to discuss the continued Israeli aggression against Palestinian people. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold the meeting at the headquarters of its General Secretariat in Jeddah,

Israeli strike kills 3 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon

An Israeli drone strike killed three Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon on Saturday, security sources in Lebanon said, the latest to die in months of cross-border hostilities that have been fought in parallel to the Gaza war. The men were killed when the car they were in was targeted on a

Fears grow for crucial Gaza hospital after Israeli raid

Fears mounted Saturday for people trapped in one of Gaza's main hospitals after Israeli troops raided the facility and the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said several patients had died there from a lack of oxygen. The ministry said late Friday that at least 120 patients and five medical teams were stuck

Israeli siege has placed Gazans at risk of starvation

The stories of hunger emerging from war-ravaged Gaza are stark: People resorting to grinding barely edible cattle feed to make flour; desperate residents eating grass; reports of cats being hunted for food. The numbers involved are just as despairing. The world’s major authority on food insecurity, the IPC Famine Review Committee,

Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 11 civilians

Eleven people, including six children, were killed by Israeli strikes on villages across southern Lebanon on Wednesday, a hospital director and three Lebanese security sources said, as Israel said it responded to a Hezbollah rocket attack that killed one of its soldier. Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire