Israeli soldiers storm Al Shifa Hospital believed to be Hamas holdout, kill militants in raid
Israeli soldiers killed several Hamas militants at the outset of a raid on the Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, where thousands of Palestinian civilians – patients, displaced people and medical staff – have been trapped during weeks of fighting. Israel said it launched the raid because Hamas has a command...
Israeli allows 24,000 litres of fuel into Gaza for humanitarian efforts as army hunts for Hamas
Israel has long alleged that the militants conceal military assets in the facility and other hospitals, a claim denied by Hamas and medical staff. Elsewhere, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Tuesday it had evacuated patients, doctors and displaced families from another Gaza City hospital, Al-Quds.
Why Israeli spyware firm NSO wants ‘urgent’ meeting with US Secretary of State Blinken
For NSO, the blacklisting has been an existential threat. The push to reverse it, which included hiring multiple American public relations and law firms, has cost NSO $1.5 million in lobbying last year, more than the government of Israel itself spent.
Palestinians dig mass grave for 120 dead patients inside Israeli-encircled Al Shifa Hospital
Ashraf Al-Qidra, Gaza’s health ministry spokesman, reached by telephone inside the hospital compound, said there were about 100 bodies decomposing inside and no way to get them out.
Doubts grow over Israel’s allegations that Hamas is hiding in Shifa, Gaza’s main hospital
After the war erupted, tens of thousands crammed into the hospital grounds to seek shelter. As the war has moved closer to the hospital, most of those huddling there have fled south – joining some two-thirds of the territory’s 2.3 million residents who have left their homes.
US military attacks two militia positions in eastern Syria in retaliation
According to the Pentagon, about 56 US personnel have been injured in the attacks in Syria and Iraq, but all have returned to duty. Their injuries are a combination of traumatic brain injury and other minor wounds.
Thousands trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital as fighting intensifies between Israel, Hamas
Israeli military said troops would assist in moving babies on Sunday. But Medical Aid for Palestinians, a UK-based charity that has supported Shifa’s neonatal intensive care unit, said transferring critically ill infants is complex. “With ambulances unable to reach the hospital … and no hospital with capacity to receive them, there is no indication of how this can be done safely,” CEO Melanie Ward said.
Israel, Hamas accused of violating international humanitarian law that protects hospitals during war
The battles around Shifa on Saturday raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?
Arab and Muslim nations want ICC to probe war crimes, crimes against humanity by Israel
Dozens of leaders including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed back into the Arab League this year, attended.
Israel faces pressure over Gaza deaths as fighting rages near hospitals, number of dead tops 11,000
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said world leaders should be condemning Hamas, and not Israel. “These crimes that Hamas (is) committing today in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and anywhere in the world,” Netanyahu said.
