Palestine

GAZA, Nov 11 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 50 displaced Palestinians were killed, in an Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, the health ministry said in a press statement, yesterday.

The ministry said, the attack on Al-Buraq School was “a disgrace to the forehead of humanity.”

In a press statement, Hamas condemned the Israeli attacks on the Palestinians, accusing the United States of supporting Israel in all of its “crimes” in Gaza.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s prime minister pushed back Saturday against calls from Western allies to do more to protect Palestinian civilians, as troops encircled Gaza’s largest hospital where doctors said five patients died, including a premature baby, after the last generator ran out of fuel.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes hit near several hospitals in Gaza City early Friday as the military pushed deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants, prompting increasing numbers of civilians to flee toward the south of the besieged territory.

Israel has accused Hamas fighters of hiding in hospitals and using the Shifa Hospital complex as its main command center, which the militant group and hospital staff deny, saying Israel is creating a pretext to strike it.

09 November 2023; MEMO: Despite shocking totals of over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza killed since 7 October,  according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, the number is likely to be “higher than are being cited,” according to a senior US diplomat, Anadolu Agency reports.

09 November 2023; MEMO: The military wing of the Palestinian Resistance group, Hamas, said Thursday that an Israeli female soldier, who was captive, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Anadolu Agency reports.

This brought the death toll of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip to 61, while the Al-Qassam Brigades also said another captive soldier had been injured in the strike.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinian civilians trudged in a forlorn procession out of the north of Gaza on Wednesday seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.

The exodus took place in a four-hour window of opportunity announced by Israel, which has told residents to evacuate the north encircled by its armoured forces or risk being trapped in the violence.

GAZA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- At least 10,569 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry said Wednesday.

The death toll included 4,324 children, said Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesperson of the Hamas-run ministry, adding the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has led to the injures of more than 26,000 people.

He said over the past day, 241 people in Gaza were killed and hundreds of others were wounded in Israeli assaults.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel faced pressure from some of its closest allies Wednesday over the plight of civilians in Gaza, where thousands streamed on foot out of the enclave’s north because of dwindling food and water and increased fighting in urban areas.

Over 70% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have already left their homes, but the number making their way south has quickened recently as Israeli troops battle Hamas militants inside Gaza City and the humanitarian situation grows increasingly dire.

NABI SALEH, West Bank, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Israeli troops on Monday arrested a Palestinian activist, regarded in the occupied West Bank as a hero since she was a teenager, on suspicion of inciting violence, but her mother denied the claim and said it was based on a fake Instagram post.

The Israeli military said it apprehended Ahed Tamimi, 22, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Tamimi rose to prominence in 2017 when, at age 16, she slapped an Israeli soldier who raided her village. She and others have for years protested Israeli land seizures.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain control there one month into a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled swaths of the territory.