Footage shared online shows hundreds of Palestinians climbing over a large mound of dirt – with some seen scaling a metal fence – as they rush to enter an aid site in Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Palestinians are first seen waiting behind a fence, before a voice – off-camera, with an...
Palestinians in Gaza say they were fired on once again as they headed to one of the aid distribution centres run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday. Witnesses said that for the first time they were fired on by Palestinian gunmen near the GHF site in the Tal al-Sultan area of...
Barbara Plett Usher BBC correspondent Dearbail Jordan BBC correspondent Getty Images Six Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded by Israeli gunfire in the latest deadly incident close to an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency says. People had gathered to collect food supplies on Saturday morning when the...
Piers Hopkirk & Julia Gregory BBC News, Godstone Stuart Maisner BBC News, South East Getty Images Some 30 families were forced to leave their homes after Godstone High Street partially collapsed Engineers working to repair a giant sinkhole collapse in a Surrey village have confirmed they have discovered a network of Victorian sand mining tunnels...
Reuters Over the past three days, there have been a series of deadly incidents on the route to an aid distribution site in Gaza run by a controversial group backed by the US and Israel. The three incidents took place on roads approaching one of the new sites in the extreme south-west of Gaza, which...
AFP The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has set up four aid distribution centre in southern and central Gaza The UN secretary-general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza on Sunday, amid disputed reports that Israeli forces had opened fire. Witnesses reported being shot at...
After walking an average of 9.3 miles to an aid distribution hub set up by the U.S.- and Israel-backed private foundation that Israel has allowed to provide humanitarian relief in Gaza, Palestinians on Tuesday faced gunfire from Israeli troops at the site, with at least one person killed and 48 wounded — and rights groups’...
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation uses American security contractors and aims to bypass the UN as the main supplier of aid in Gaza. BBC...
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial new group backed by the US and Israel. A senior official said the UN was still gathering information but that most of the injuries were due to...
Police are investigating an incident of illegal metal detecting at the historic Lydford Castle and Saxon Town site in Devon. The unauthorised activity, known as nighthawking, involved the digging of multiple holes at the protected 13th Century site, a scheduled monument managed by English Heritage. The site features a 13th Century tower on a mound,...
A council said it had taken a loss on the sale of a former leisure centre site in order to keep a promise not to build student accommodation on it. Plans have been agreed to sell the old Clifton Hill leisure centre site, in Exeter, to a company that builds affordable housing for older people....
Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information that the president had died being posted. The police dissociated itself from the information and...
The site of a former hospital in south Devon has been sold after a number of previous attempts fell through. The Dartmouth and Kingswear Community Hospital building was put up for auction in September 2024, the third attempt to dispose of the property. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust confirmed it had been sold...
Bids for the two-acre site on the edge of the city centre were received in October 2024. The site already had planning permission for 41 homes but none of the bidders wanted to take those plans forward. The highest bidder, Preferred Homes Ltd, wants to build a 72-unit home for older people with an average...
A developer is seeking planning advice on the construction of a new care home at a former quarry site in Plymouth. LNT Care Developments sought pre-application advice from Plymouth City Council before submitting a formal planning proposal for the construction of the facility at the former Plymstock Quarry. If approved, the home would provide general...