Gaza City
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Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes near the Al-Shifa Hospital and Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip late Friday, according to Al-Aqsa TV. No information was available on casualties. The broadcaster, affiliated with the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, said the airstrikes also targeted the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Clashes were reported between Palestinian…
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A school run by a relief organisation in Gaza has been damaged in a “close proximity strike”, the UN Palestinian refugee agency has said. The facility in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza near the border with Egyptm has been sheltering 4,600 people, the UNRWA added. In a post on X, it said it had…
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Israel has rejected Turkey’s president Tayyip Erdogan’s comment that Hamas is “not a terrorist organisation”. Mr Erdogan made the remark earlier today in a speech to his party’s lawmakers in parliament, saying Hamas was a liberation group waging a battle to protect its land. “Israel wholeheartedly rejects the Turkish president’s harsh words about the terrorist…
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Rishi Sunak is meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Meanwhile, in Egypt, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly met with his counterpart Sameh Shoukry. They have been discussing international efforts to de-escalate the conflict and to deliver aid to Gaza, a spokesperson for the Egyptian foreign ministry said. Before talks began, Mr Sunak said: “I’m pleased to…
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Good afternoon from Meziesblog! Here’s latest news from the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war. It’s now 4.30pm in Gaza and it appears the Rafah border crossing into Egypt is not opening imminently. It had been expected to open at 9am local time for aid to enter Gaza and for some foreign nationals to leave – but Israel…
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Hamas may be ready to release nearly 200 hostages if Israel stops its campaign of airstrikes on Gaza, Iran’s foreign ministry has said. However, the militant group has not acknowledged making such an offer. Iran is the main sponsor of Hamas in its fight against Israel – Tehran’s arch regional enemy. Hamas officials “stated they…
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The EU foreign policy chief on Sunday called for opening of border crossings for immediate supply of humanitarian aid amid fast worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza. “Rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza. Supplies from outside urgently needed, as stressed by @UNSCO_MEPP (Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process) to EU,”…
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Israel on Sunday said that it had resumed water supply to the southern part of the Gaza Strip to encourage evacuation of the northern part of the enclave. “The Israeli methods to encourage residents of northern Gaza and Gaza City to relocate to south include the restoration of water supply to the southern part of…
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A trauma hospital in Gaza had to wash a burns patient with regular soap due to an “ominous” shortage of supplies – as bombing victims flood in and the consequences of a 16 year-siege start to bite, a doctor told Sky News. British-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who left London for Gaza on Sunday, said…
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