Category: 2. Middle East

Gaza medic Mundhir Abed feared for his life as Israeli forces opened fire on a convoy of rescuers near Rafah last month, killing 15 of his colleagues in a brazen assault.

Abed, 45, was the only survivor of the attack on March 23, in which medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society and Gaza’s civil defence agency were gunned down as they responded to urgent calls for help following an Israeli air strike.

“I was terrified they would kill me,” Abed, a medic from the Palestine Red Crescent…

The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who has said Israel enjoys a divine right to the West Bank, as ambassador to Israel.

Huckabee will head to the US embassy in Jerusalem as Israel seizes large areas of Gaza, part of a renewed military campaign that has had President Donald Trump’s blessing.

The Senate voted largely on party lines to confirm Trump’s nominee, with one Democrat, John Fetterman, supporting him.

Huckabee, a Baptist minister who served as…

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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