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Israeli forces surround two more Gaza hospitals, Palestinian Red Crescent says
Israeli forces have surrounded two more hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said, describing intense shelling and heavy gunfire. Months into the conflict, fighting is still raging across Gaza, despite (...)

24 - 03 - 2024
At Rafah border crossing to Gaza, Guterres calls for immediate ceasefire
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists at the Rafah border crossing into Gaza that it is time for a ceasefire and for an "ironclad commitment by Israel" to allow unhindered aid deliveries into the besieged enclave as he began his (...)

23 - 03 - 2024
Gaza: Number of children killed higher than from four years of world conflict
Amid reports of fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight into Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said that more children have been killed there in recent months than in four years of conflict worldwide. "This war is a war on (...)

13 - 03 - 2024
For the first time in weeks, UN aid teams reach Gaza City
Enough aid for 25,000 people has reached Gaza City for the first time in weeks, the UN World Food Program (WFP) announced on Tuesday, in a call for daily aid missions and better access. "WFP delivered enough food for 25,000 people to Gaza City early (...)

12 - 03 - 2024
Gaza: Frustration mounts as UN convoy is blocked outside stricken hospital
UN relief agencies operating in war-torn Gaza voiced deep frustration on Tuesday over continuing aid access restrictions placed on them by the Israeli military, after ambulances carrying patients away from a stricken hospital at the weekend were (...)

27 - 02 - 2024
Gaza crisis: Babies being born 'into hell' amid desperate aid shortages
Babies are being "delivered into hell" in Gaza with many others likely dying as a result of conflict with Israel and increasingly dire conditions in the enclave, UN humanitarians warned on Friday. Reiterating urgent international calls for a (...)

20 - 01 - 2024
Gaza crisis: another hospital facing dire shortages, warns WHO
On day 93 of the war in Gaza, amid reports of relentless and heavy Israeli bombardment, UN humanitarians issued new reports of "significant casualties, particularly among women and children", and pleaded for overwhelmed medical teams to be allowed (...)

08 - 01 - 2024
Gaza crisis deepens as UN aid convoys face delays and obstacles
Amid reports of continued Israeli airstrikes overnight in southern and central Gaza and more rocket fire into Israel from the enclave, UN teams said on Thursday they have been unable to deliver urgently needed aid to civilians beyond central areas (...)

06 - 01 - 2024
Everyone is hungry in Gaza now: UN humanitarians
UN humanitarians repeated dire concerns for civilians caught up in the war in Gaza on Tuesday, amid reports of continued Israeli bombardment of the southern towns of Deir Al Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah, direct clashes on the ground and the firing (...)

02 - 01 - 2024
Gaza: UN calls for urgent aid scale-up amid new mass exodus to Rafah
In Gaza, at least 100,000 displaced people have poured into Rafah in recent days, UN humanitarians said on Friday, worsening already dire conditions in the southernmost part of the enclave. "A traumatized and exhausted population" is being "crammed (...)

30 - 12 - 2023
Israel vows to continue 'difficult' military operation in Gaza
The Israeli military has vowed to continue its operation in Gaza, but admitted it is "protracted" and "difficult". A spokesman said over the weekend it was expanding its "ground operations in the southern and northern Gaza Strip". Meanwhile, the US (...)

24 - 12 - 2023
'Ten weeks of hell' for children in Gaza: UNICEF
Gaza is by far the most dangerous place in the world to be a child and deaths of youngsters from disease will likely surpass those from bombardment in the absence of a ceasefire, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday. A lack of food, (...)

19 - 12 - 2023
Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of 'safe zones'
The situation for Gazans is "getting worse by the hour", the UN health agency WHO said on Tuesday, after some the heaviest Israeli shelling in the enclave since Hamas militants massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took around 240 (...)

05 - 12 - 2023
Frustration as hundreds queue for cooking gas in Gaza
Away from the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, let's remind ourselves of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, there are people as far as the eye can see. It's supposed to be a "safe" city compared with the (...)

29 - 11 - 2023
IDF conducting 'wide-scale strikes' on Hamas centers in Gaza Israel's defense minister has given the order for a 'complete siege' of the enclave
After more than 48 hours of the type of intense, door-to-door fighting unseen in Israel for decades, the country's military has retaken control of all the communities around Gaza that gunmen from Hamas had infiltrated, the Israeli military (...)

09 - 10 - 2023
Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians begins
Israel and the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, seeking to halt five days of intense fighting. The conflict killed 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians. Two people in Israel (...)

14 - 05 - 2023
Israel and Gaza fighters in heaviest fighting for months
Israel said Palestinians in Gaza have fired more than 400 rockets at it, and that its military has hit about 110 militant targets in Gaza, in the heaviest fighting in nine months. Six people were killed and 45 injured in Gaza, local medics said. (...)

11 - 05 - 2023
How Gaza is bringing its wetlands back to life
Muzaraq "Abu Salman" Arash remembers a time when fish swam in Gaza's wetlands and thousands of migrating birds soared above him every spring and autumn. Water used to stream down the Hebron hills in the West Bank and wind through the Naqab desert, (...)

16 - 04 - 2023
Middle East coordinator calls for new and timely Palestinian election date
After the postponement of the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, originally scheduled for May 22, a senior UN official in the region on Friday urged the authorities to set a new date for heading to the polls. UN Special Coordinator for the (...)

01 - 05 - 2021
Over 97 percent of Gaza water below quality standards: WHO
More than 97% of the water pumped from the coastal aquifer, in the besieged Gaza Strip, does not meet the water quality standards of the World Health Organization (WHO), leading to the depletion of groundwater reserves, with the groundwater level in (...)

26 - 03 - 2019
After Hamas decade, Gaza short on freedom, jobs, electricity
Grim records mark the 10th anniversary of Hamas rule in Gaza — the longest-ever daily electricity and water cuts, 60 percent youth unemployment, and a rising backlog of thousands waiting for a rare chance to exit the blockaded territory. For most of (...)

07 - 06 - 2017
Israel ‘systematically' preventing access to Gaza: HRW
An international human rights group on Monday accused Israel of barring foreign researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document abuses, saying the restrictions call into question Israel's stated commitment to investigating possible rights (...)

04 - 04 - 2017
Palestinian women try to bring baseball to Gaza
The young Palestinian women don baseball caps on top of their Islamic headscarves and field tennis balls with fabric gloves, giving a decidedly local feel to the great American pastime. They are trying to bring baseball to the Gaza Strip, an effort (...)

21 - 03 - 2017
Palestinian women try to bring baseball to Gaza
The young Palestinian women substitute headscarves for baseball caps and field tennis balls with fabric gloves, giving a decidedly local feel to the great American pastime. They are trying to bring baseball to the Gaza Strip, an effort that is still (...)

20 - 03 - 2017
Hamas hands out land hoping to avoid financial crisis
Earth movers dig into sand dunes on land where once Jewish settlements stood — prime real estate that the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas group hopes will ease its worsening financial crisis. Hamas has begun handing out plots of the land to 40,000 civil (...)

31 - 07 - 2016
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