After more than a year and a half of the war in Gaza, Britain appears to have finally lost patience with Israel. Speaking to MPs, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy sounded genuinely angry. Sir Keir said the level of suffering in Gaza, especially among innocent children, was “intolerable”. Israel’s decision...
Pro-Palestine advocates say the announcement is a publicity stunt that will do little to end the genocide. The U.K. government said on Tuesday that it is suspending free trade talks with Israel and imposing sanctions on some settlements in the occupied West Bank over Israel’s recent escalation in Gaza — an announcement being slammed by...
The UN says no aid has yet been distributed in Gaza despite aid lorries starting to cross the border after an 11-week blockade. Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, carrying aid including flour, baby food, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical drugs. But the UN said, despite trucks reaching the Palestinian side of the...
Dr Rose has been describing life at Nassar Hospital in Gazan city of Khan Younis. Read full article at source...
A damning new report reveals how Israel is systematically making Gaza unlivable. The independent news outlet +972 Magazine has spoken to Israeli soldiers who describe how they have been using bulldozers and explosives to intentionally flatten Gaza. In the southern city of Rafah, 73% of buildings are completely destroyed, with only about 4% of the...
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent James Chater BBC News, London Reuters Israel has intensified its offensive on Gaza in recent days At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip during a half-hour period overnight, according to Palestinian medics. Israeli warplanes struck several locations, including a school in...
Jeremy Bowen International Editor Reuters IDF attacks in Gaza have killed thousands since Israel ended a ceasefire in March Israel went to war after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 armed with an arsenal of weapons mostly paid for, supplied and then resupplied by the United States. Its other allies gave Israel something just...
Advocates slammed the miniscule allowance of aid as nothing more than a “PR stunt by Netanyahu’s genocidal government.” Israeli officials touted their allowance of five trucks loaded with humanitarian aid into Gaza on Monday, marking the first aid to enter the Strip in nearly three months — and representing less than 1 percent of what...
Massive explosions shook the Gaza Strip in the first hours of Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes launched intensive airstrikes on north, south, and central Gaza, in what the Israeli army called “preparations to expand operations” in the Strip. Israeli airstrikes hit Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, several parts of Gaza City, and Jabalia. A resident of...
All three public hospitals in north Gaza have been put “out of service”, the Hamas-run health ministry has said, as Israel continues its offensive to seize areas of the territory. The ministry said on Sunday Israeli forces had besieged the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, “with heavy fire… preventing the arrival of patients, medical staff,...
Israel’s military has announced the launch of a major offensive aimed at defeating Hamas and securing the freedom of remaining hostages in Gaza. The Israeli Defense Forces said on its Hebrew X account that it had mobilised troops for “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” to seize “strategic areas” of the strip. Hamas-run civil defence and health ministry...
The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how world leaders are responding to Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Read full article at source...
Rushdi Abualouf, Cairo; Yolande Knell, Jerusalem; Mallory Moench, London BBC News Reuters A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early Friday in north Gaza, the...
A British doctor has shared footage with the BBC from inside the European Gaza Hospital near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, moments after a deadly Israeli air strike. Dr Tom Potokar, a consultant plastic surgeon who has been to Gaza 16 times to treat patients, was at the hospital when warplanes dropped six...
Rushdi Abu Alouf Gaza correspondent Reuters Air strikes reportedly hit homes and tents sheltering displaced families At least 103 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency. Fifty-six people, including women and children, were killed when homes and tents sheltering displaced families...