Category: 2. Middle East

Arriving in the deadly aftermath of an Israeli strike in northern Gaza, rescuer Nooh Al-Shaghnobi risked his life to aid the wounded despite warnings of another imminent attack.

In a video that has since gone viral on social media, civil defence member Shaghnobi can be seen desperately trying to pull a wounded man out from under a mound of rubble.

As he was working, a fresh evacuation order was issued by the Israeli military, warning of another strike on the same site, a school sheltering…

Israel said Wednesday its troops are seizing “large areas” in Gaza and making the Palestinian territory “smaller and more isolated”, as an air strike on a residential block killed at least 23 people.

Defence Minister Israel Katz’s comments come weeks into a renewed offensive by the military on the war-battered territory, which has displaced hundreds of thousands, while an aid blockade has revived the spectre of famine for its 2.4 million people.

“Large areas are being seized and added to…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City killed at least 23 people Wednesday, most of them children or women, as the military said it targeted a “senior Hamas” militant.

The strike took place in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, the agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

“The death toll from the Shujaiya massacre has risen to 23 martyrs, including eight children and eight women,” he said, adding that more than 60 people were…

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The mother of an Israeli soldier held hostage in Gaza longs for her son’s return, fearing that Israel’s renewed bombardment of the territory puts his life at even greater risk.

“Our children are in danger,” Herut Nimrodi told AFP during an interview. Her son, Tamir, was just 18 when he was taken to Gaza on October 7, 2023.

“We don’t know much, but one thing that is certain is that military pressure on Gaza endangers the hostages,” she said.

Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas’s…

Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday said he was prepared to grant temporary shelter to Palestinians affected by the war in Gaza between the Israeli military and the territory’s rulers Hamas.

Nearly 400,000 Gaza residents have been displaced in the weeks since Israel resumed military operations in the territory last month, according to the United Nations.

“We are ready to receive wounded victims,” Prabowo said before leaving for a Middle East visit to the United Arab Emirates,…

Fear, bombs and screams stalk Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s resumption of strikes three weeks ago has sparked fresh displacement and an ever more desperate search for shelter.

“They are asking for evacuation, but where will we go?” asked Mahmoud Hussein, who fled bombardments in the north to live in a tent in the central town of az-Zawayda.

“There is nothing, nothing,” he said, listing off several nearby areas marked for evacuation on a map published by the Israeli…