Gazans began leaving eastern Rafah on Monday after Israel's military issued a call for residents there to "evacuate immediately," raising questions over whether Israel will soon carry out its long-threatened assault on the city.
During nearly seven (...)
An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza's Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah.
Several (...)
In a video recorded by a Palestinian rescuer, a shout comes from under mounds of smashed concrete.
"I'm Alma."
"Don't help me first. Help my mum and dad. And please help my brother Tarazan. He's a baby, 18 months old."
It's morning on 2 December (...)
Egypt is building a massive miles-wide buffer zone and wall along its border with southern Gaza, new satellite images show, as fears grow over Israel's planned ground offensive in Rafah where more than half of Gaza's population is sheltering.
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Two Israeli hostages were rescued overnight from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in a joint operation between the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency Shin Bet and the Israeli police.
The two rescued hostages have been identified as (...)
Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.
These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern (...)
At least 12 people were killed and 75 injured when a UN facility sheltering civilians was struck in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency says.
UNRWA said two shells hit its Khan Younis Training Centre during fighting in (...)
Medicines for Israeli hostages and Palestinians have entered Gaza, Qatar said Wednesday, after the Gulf nation brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to provide vital medication to the war-torn enclave.
The agreement mediated by Qatar Tuesday will (...)
An edited video circulating on social media appears to show Palestinian men and at least two children detained and stripped by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a stadium in northern Gaza.
Clips in the video show what appear to be two young boys in (...)
Twenty-month-old Amir Taha lies silently on the bed – his fluffy hair sticking up, his baby soft skin violated by a raw, jagged wound across his forehead. Purple bruises swell around one of his big brown eyes.
He's an orphan now, his aunt says, with (...)
An initial group of 13 hostages have been released, the Israeli prime minister's office says, as a truce between Israel and Hamas — the first in weeks of fighting — appears to be holding.
Separately, 12 Thai nationals who were held by Hamas have (...)
Thirty-one babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday, in a high-stakes operation that involved multiple international agencies rushing the newborns in ambulances through active fighting, as fears remain for their survival.
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Hospitals across Gaza are running out of electricity and supplies, with staff working in dire conditions while thousands of residents pack into medical centers, seeking shelter from a seemingly endless barrage of airstrikes.
Gaza's second-largest (...)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated the call for an urgent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during a visit to the Rafah crossing and El Arish Hospital in Egypt on Wednesday.
Volker Türk highlighted the dichotomy at the border (...)
Egypt has agreed to allow aid trucks into Gaza as anger rises globally over Israel's siege of the isolated enclave in response to the coordinated Hamas attacks nearly two weeks ago.
The relentless bombardment of Gaza by Israel has sparked growing (...)
About 20 trucks carrying much-needed aid may be allowed to enter Gaza in the coming days -- bringing some relief to its 2.2 million residents.
Israel cut electricity, most water and stopped food and medicine deliveries there following an attack by (...)
The African tiger at the zoo in southern Gaza Strip was emaciated, its belly shrunken and its striped coat hanging loose. It strode nervously up and down its cage.
"The tiger has not eaten for four or five days," said Mohammed Ouida, the owner of (...)
A Palestinian was injured by an air raid launched today by Israeli warplanes on Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, dpa reported.
Palestinian sources in Rafah said that the injured citizen was rushed to hospital to receive treatment while Palestinian (...)
Israeli naval forces Wednesday opened fire at a Palestinian boat while fishing in the allowed six miles fishing zone off the coast of Rafah, south of the Gaza strip, arresting two fishermen, according to media sources and witnesses.
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Egypt has partially reopened its border crossing with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday after closing it for almost two months, dpa reported.
The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said on its website that Egypt partly opened the Rafah crossing in (...)
An Israeli aircraft fired a missile Thursday at Tal al-Sultan area to the west of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, said witnesses.
According to WAFA, they said an F16 jetfighter targeted a structure in the area with one rocket without causing (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1433, Sep 26, 2012, SPA -- A 20-year-old Palestinian was killed and two others were injured on Wednesday when a smuggling tunnel on the Gaza borders with Egypt collapsed, according to medical sources.
According to WAFA, they said the (...)
As many as 2,057 people crossed yesterday through the Rafah land port. At least 978 people of them came from Gaza and the remaining 1,079 people (who came from Egypt) entered the Palestinian territories.
An official source said the port had been (...)
Two Palestinians were seriously wounded in an Israeli air raid that targeted their motorcycle in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital pointed out that the wounded persons arrived at the hospital (...)
An Israeli airstrike Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah wounded two Palestinians riding a motorcycle, medics and witnesses said.
Gaza emergency spokesman Adham Abu Selmeya told reporters that the two casualties were taken to Abu (...)
