A convoy of 109 UN aid lorries carrying food was violently looted in Gaza on Saturday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says.
Ninety-seven of the lorries were lost and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after (...)
At least 96 Palestinians were killed and 60 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local authorities.
Gaza's government media office reported that Israeli warplanes targeted multiple (...)
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains critical and could deteriorate further, warns the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA).
Speaking to Euronews in Brussels, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza Scott Anderson called on all (...)
The main UN aid agency in Gaza says Israel has failed to meet a US deadline to boost aid to the territory or risk a reduction in American military aid.
Last month, in a strongly worded letter, the US secretary of state gave Israel an ultimatum of 30 (...)
At least 42 Palestinians, including 15 children, were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to medical sources.
Israeli warplanes bombed an inhabited home in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's refugee camps, (...)
An Israeli airstrike on a multi-story building in northern Gaza killed at least 27 people, relief officials said, as the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in the area, where it is mounting a major offensive.
The home of the Mbahouh (...)
The photo shows a large crowd of more than 200 people, crouching low amid the rubble of Jabalya in northern Gaza. Mostly men, many are almost naked, some are elderly, some visibly wounded. There's at least one child among them.
They were detained (...)
People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis — but now they fear it will get much more difficult because of Israel's ban on the biggest UN agency that operates there.
"UNRWA means everything to us: it is our life, (...)
Israel's parliament has voted to pass legislation banning the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) from operating within Israel and Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, within three months.
Contact between UNRWA employees and Israeli officials will (...)
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says Israel is continuing to prevent humanitarian missions from reaching northern Gaza with critical supplies, including food and medicine.
"Hospitals have been hit and are left without (...)
A 3-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by air-dropped aid in the southern city of Khan Younis on Saturday, according to his relatives, as the humanitarian crisis spawned by the Israeli offensive compounds severe hunger across the Gaza Strip. The (...)
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 87 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Saturday's Israeli air strike on the city of Beit Lahia in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
The ministry said a number of people were still (...)
An Israeli colonel has died during combat in northern Gaza, becoming one of the country's highest-ranking officers to be killed in its war with Hamas.
The Israel Defense Forces announced the death of Col. Ehsan Daxa, commander of the 401st "Iron (...)
Israel has denied obstructing humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza, after the US warned its ally in a letter to urgently boost humanitarian access or risk having some military assistance cut off.
The first aid in two weeks was allowed into northern (...)
Witnesses to an Israeli air strike and resulting fire at a tent camp in a Gaza hospital compound have shared with the BBC their horror and helplessness at seeing people injured and killed in the flames.
One mother called it "one of the worst scenes (...)
The Gaza Media Office accused the Israeli army of intensifying genocide in the northern Gaza Strip, including the Jabalia refugee camp, through "massacres and deliberate killings" since its ground encroachment on October 6.
In a statement issued (...)
The situation facing children in Gaza today resembles Japan's plight after the atomic bombings in World War II, according to Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning group representing survivors of the Hiroshima and (...)
At least 28 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced families in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent says.
More than 50 others were injured in the attack on Rufaida al-Aslamia school, which (...)
Mohammad Mayyat recalled the moment Israeli rockets blasted through Al Bureij – catapulting body parts into the air and killing his only son.
"The rockets fell, and I saw people torn apart. I didn't know what to do. My only son, after 20 years, is (...)
After more than 100 airstrikes since Saturday evening, the Israeli army issued a new warning to residents of northern Gaza on Sunday morning, urging them to evacuate their homes and relocate to the Al-Mawasi area in Deir al-Balah and Khan (...)
The Ministry of Religious Affairs in Gaza announced on Saturday that Israel has destroyed 79% of the mosques in the Gaza Strip during its ongoing war against Palestinians.
According to the ministry, the Israeli army has leveled 814 of Gaza's 1,245 (...)
The UN's most senior official overseeing aid and reconstruction in Gaza has told the BBC that the international community is collectively failing innocent civilians in the territory.
Sigrid Kaag, who was appointed nine months ago to improve the (...)
The Gaza Media Office issued a stark warning on Saturday about an impending humanitarian disaster for 2 million displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as winter approaches.
According to the office, 74% of the tents used for displaced people are no (...)
At least 19 Palestinians, including several women and children, were killed on Saturday in Israeli attacks targeting both northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.
Gaza's Civil Defense reported that five Palestinians died and others were (...)
At least 18 people, including United Nations staff, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense and hospital officials. At least 44 others (...)
