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 (...)
At least 40 people have been killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a humanitarian zone created to shelter displaced people in southern Gaza, according to local rescue officials, in what Israel has said was an operation targeting Hamas fighters in (...)
A 14-year-old boy lies in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, severely burned from an Israeli airstrike. Doctors say nearly his entire body is affected. His wounds have now become infested with maggots.
"(He has) advanced second- (...)
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Friday that its teams vaccinated more than 160,000 children on Thursday, marking the first day of the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign in southern Gaza.
"Thousands of families (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that polio vaccinations for children in central Gaza have exceeded targets within the first two days of its immunization campaign.
According to Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative in the (...)
UN agencies and their partners have urgently requested a humanitarian pause in the war in Gaza to ensure that over 640,000 children can receive polio vaccinations.
The call highlights the critical need for an immediate halt in hostilities to prevent (...)
Israeli forces have reduced the designated "safe humanitarian zones" within the Gaza Strip to mere rubble, leaving only 9.5% of the territory as areas for displaced civilians to seek refuge, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza reported on (...)
At least 22 Palestinians were killed and many others injured in a series of overnight Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip, as the conflict entered its 321st day on Thursday.
In the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia, an Israeli airstrike on a house (...)
At least 20 Palestinians, including a woman and her six children, were killed on Sunday as the Israeli army launched strikes on several areas in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.
Medical staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (...)
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war against Hamas, the health ministry in the enclave said Thursday, yet another dark milestone in the 10-month-old conflict.
The ministry said 40 people had died in (...)
Newborn twins were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza while their father was at a local government office to register their birth.
Asser, a boy, and Ayssel, a girl, were just four days old when their father Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan went to collect (...)
Over 75,000 Palestinians have been displaced in southwest Gaza over the past few days, according to Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
"Over the decades, Palestinian civilians have been (...)
At least 100 Palestinians were killed early Saturday when the Israeli military bombed the Al-Taba'een school in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in eastern Gaza City during the fajr (dawn) prayer.
The school, which was housing displaced residents, was (...)
Nearly half of Hamas' military battalions in northern and central Gaza have rebuilt some of their fighting capabilities despite more than nine months of Israel's brutal offensive, according to analyses by the American Enterprise Institute's Critical (...)
At least 30 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in Israeli airstrikes on two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, the Civil Defense Agency reported.
The attacks targeted the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasr schools west of Gaza City, (...)
Hamas has confirmed its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has been killed in Tehran, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early on Wednesday.
Hamas has blamed Israel for the attack.
Israel had vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the (...)
Israeli attacks killed at least 19 Palestinians, including children, and injured numerous others across Gaza on Sunday, according to health officials and Gaza's Civil Defense.
At least 10 people were killed in an airstrike on a house in central Khan (...)
Several primary care centers and medical points in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, have been shut down following evacuation orders by the Israeli army, the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday.
"Due to the increasing number (...)
The Israeli military has ordered civilians to temporarily evacuate from part of its designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza ahead of what it called a "forceful operation" against Palestinian armed groups.
The military said there had been (...)
Dozens of Palestinians, including children, were killed and injured Saturday in a series of overnight airstrikes conducted by Israeli warplanes targeting homes in various areas of the Gaza Strip.
"Five Palestinians were martyred and several others (...)
Palestinians in Gaza are reeling from a series of devastating Israeli attacks that have renewed focus on the high number of civilian casualties and widespread destruction caused by what Israel calls targeted strikes against Hamas.
Multiple United (...)
Hamas said on Sunday that talks for a Gaza cease-fire are ongoing and affirmed the good health of the group's military commander, following a massive Israeli airstrike targeting Mohammed Deif. Local health officials reported at least 90 deaths, (...)