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Express Tribune
5 days ago
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- Express Tribune
Israel attacks Syrian military installations, weapons
sraeli soldiers stand on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, as seen from the Golan Heights, December 10, Listen to article At least 95 Palestinians have been killed and 440 injured by Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The war in Gaza is having a devastating effect on pregnant women and nursing mothers, with an estimated 50,000 at serious risk due to shortages of food and essential medicines, according to a hospital in central Gaza, reported Al Jazeera. Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, said rates of miscarriage had increased sixfold since the outbreak of war and had been accompanied by a large rise in premature births, Wafa reported. That had left Gaza's embattled neonatal units overwhelmed, he said. Al-Daqran said Israel's targeting of the healthcare had brought it to the brink of collapse, with far-reaching impacts on patients in Gaza. More than 23 hospitals had been put out of action, with those that remained only partly functioning, as a result of severe shortages of medical supplies and fuel, he said. That meant more than 12,000 cancer patients were left without treatment, resulting in about five deaths a day, while dialysis patients were also dying through a lack of essential treatment. According to Middle East Monitor, 41% of kidney failure patients have died since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli assault, as a result of their inability to receive dialysis treatment due to the destruction of medical facilities and the collapse of essential health services. Aid suspended Meanwhile, the United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) suspended aid distribution in the war-torn territory on Wednesday, a day after Israeli forces again opened fire on Palestinian aid seekers near a GHF distribution site, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 100. Read: 27 killed, dozens injured by Israeli fire near Gaza aid site Israel's military also said that approach roads to the aid distribution centres will be 'considered combat zones' on Wednesday, and warned that people in Gaza should heed the GHF announcement to stay away. 'We confirm that travel is prohibited tomorrow on roads leading to the distribution centers…and entry to the distribution centers is strictly forbidden,' an Israeli military spokesperson said. In a post on social media, GHF said the temporary suspension was necessary to allow for 'renovation, reorganisation and efficiency improvement work'. 'Due to the ongoing updates, entry to the distribution centre areas is slowly prohibited! Please do not go to the site and follow general instructions. Operations will resume on Thursday. Please continue to follow updates,' the group said. The temporary suspension of aid comes as more than 100 Palestinian people seeking aid have been reported killed by Israeli forces in the vicinity of GHF distribution centres since the organisation started operating in the enclave on May 27. The killing of people desperately seeking food supplies triggered mounting international outrage with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanding an independent inquiry into the deaths and for 'perpetrators to be held accountable'. 'It is unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food,' Guterres said. 'It is unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food,' Guterres said. The Israeli military has admitted it shot at aid seekers on Tuesday, but claimed that they opened fire when 'suspects' deviated from a stipulated route as a crowd of Palestinians was making its way to the GHF distribution site in Gaza. 'Syrian weapons struck down' Separately, the Israeli military said in a statement it struck weapons belonging to the Syrian regime in southern Syria, in a second attack that Israel launched after claiming that two projectiles were fired from Syria into Golan Heights on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the two projectiles, according to Reuters. Syrian state news agency and security sources reported a series of Israeli strikes, the first major ones in nearly a month, targeting several sites in the Damascus countryside and Quneitra and Daraa. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz had said earlier that he held Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa responsible for the two projectile launches. "We consider the president of Syria directly responsible for any threat and fire toward the State of Israel, and a full response will come soon," Katz claimed. אנו רואים בנשיא סוריה כאחראי ישירות לכל איום וירי לעבר מדינת ישראל והתגובה המלאה תגיע בהקדם. לא נאפשר חזרה למציאות של ה-7 באוקטובר. — ישראל כ'ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) June 3, 2025 The Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement that reports of the launches towards Israel had not been verified yet and reiterated that Syria has not and will not pose a threat to any party in the region, state news agency SANA reported. "We believe that there are many parties that may seek to destabilize the region to achieve their own interests," the Syrian foreign ministry added. Syria and Israel have recently engaged in direct talks to ease tensions, a significant development in relations between states that have been on opposite sides of conflict in the Middle East for decades. The Israeli military earlier said that two projectiles crossed from Syria towards Israel and fell in open areas. Several Arab and Palestinian media outlets circulated a claim of responsibility from a little-known group named "Martyr Muhammad Deif Brigades," an apparent reference to Hamas' military leader who was killed in an Israeli strike in 2024. Reuters could not independently verify the statement. Syrian state media earlier reported an Israeli strike in the southern Daraa province, an attack the Syrian foreign ministry later said resulted in "significant human and material losses." Local residents said Israeli mortars were striking the Wadi Yarmouk area, west of Daraa province, near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The area has witnessed increased tensions in recent weeks, including reported Israeli military incursions into nearby villages, where residents have reportedly been barred from sowing their crops. Israel has waged a campaign of aerial bombardment that destroyed much of Syria's military infrastructure. It also has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and taken more territory in the aftermath of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ouster in December, citing lingering concerns over the past of the country's new rulers. Around the same time that Israel reported the projectiles from Syria, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile from Yemen. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said they targeted Israel's Jaffa with a ballistic missile. The group says it has been launching attacks against Israel in support of Palestinians during the Israeli war in Gaza. Read: Israel 'without a doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza: Mathew Miller War crimes Moreover, Hamas described recent comments made by US State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller on Sky News, where he acknowledged Israeli war crimes as a "significant acknowledgement", Al Jazeera reported. In an interview with the Trump 100 podcast, Matthew Miller, who served as the State Department spokesperson under President Joe Biden, offered an unusually candid assessment of the administration's foreign policy challenges, particularly surrounding Israel's military operations in Gaza. 'It is without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes,' Miller said, adding that Israeli soldiers were not being held accountable and that there were ongoing policy disagreements inside the administration over the US-Israel relationship. Miller served from 2023 until the end of Mr Biden's term and was responsible for publicly defending US foreign policy decisions, including during the Israel-Gaza conflict and the war in Ukraine. Speaking after leaving office, Mr Miller disclosed that there were both 'small and big' disagreements over how to manage relations with Israel, especially during the 2024 escalation in Gaza. In a statement to Al Jazeera, Hamas said the remarks 'denounce the Israeli occupation, validate its atrocities, and reveal efforts by the US administration to conceal the reality of this brutal war targeting innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip.' Israel's war on Gaza The total death toll from Israel's war on Gaza has risen to 54,607 killed and 125,341 injured since October 7, 2023, according to Palestinian health sources. Israel has killed 4,335 Palestinians and injured 13,300 since breaking a ceasefire in March this year. Israel's atrocities have displaced around 90% of Gaza's estimated two million residents, created a severe hunger crisis, and caused widespread destruction across the territory. Aid agencies have warned about the risk of famine among the enclave's more than 2 million. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war crimes against civilians in the enclave.
Egypt Today
26-05-2025
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- Egypt Today
30 people including women, children killed in Israeli shelling to displaced school
CAIRO – 26 May 2025: 30 people including women and Children were killed, Monday morning in Gaza due to an Israeli bombing to a school housing a large number of displaced persons, according to spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health Khalil Al-Daqran. He added that dozens of other civilians are suffering critical injuries, describing the health and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip as 'catastrophic' due to the continuing military escalations. In a phone call with Extra News channel, the spokesperson indicated that the intense shelling around the school charred the bodies and turned the area into rubble and scattered body parts. He explained that hospitals, most notably the Baptist Hospital and Al-Shifa Hospital, received the bodies of the martyrs and the injured under extremely difficult operating conditions, as these hospitals are only partially operational due to the situation. Al-Daqran explained that more than 50 injured children, women, and elderly were transferred to hospitals suffering from critical head and chest injuries, as well as second- and third-degree burns. He noted that the Israeli occupying forces used internationally prohibited weapons during the attack, in clear violation of international humanitarian law.
Al-Ahram Weekly
20-03-2025
- Health
- Al-Ahram Weekly
710 Palestinians killed , 900 injured since Israel renewed bombing Gaza - War on Gaza
At least 710 Palestinians have been killed and over 900 injured in Gaza since Israel resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on Tuesday, spokesperson for the Health Ministry in Gaza Khalil al-Daqran said on Thursday. Al-Daqran highlighted that many of the injured have died as a result of being unable to receive urgent medical care due to a severe shortage of essential medical supplies and equipment, as reported by Al Jazeera. He also stated that 70% of the casualties are women and children, with most of them suffering from severe injuries. Israel bombarded Gaza and pressed its ground operations on Thursday. The renewed offensive shattered a relative calm that had pervaded since truce took hold mid-January. Inhumane ordeals The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) decried on Thursday "an endless unleashing of the most inhumane ordeals" on the people of Gaza after Israel renewed deadly air stikes and ground operations in the territory. "Israeli Forces bombardment continues from air & sea for the third day," Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X. "Under our daily watch, people in Gaza are again & again going through their worst nightmare." Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Saba Yemen
12-03-2025
- Health
- Saba Yemen
Gaza: Closed Crossings, Serious Repercussions, and Worsening Humanitarian Disaster
Gaza-Saba: The Gaza Strip is experiencing a serious humanitarian disaster due to the Zionist enemy's recent decision to close the crossings and prevent the entry of aid to the Strip's residents since the beginning of the week. Their already dire living conditions have worsened, amid warnings from local and international organizations of the return of signs of famine to the besieged Strip. Local Palestinian sources spoke of the dire humanitarian situation facing the Gaza Strip and its residents, who have survived a Zionist genocide that has lasted for more than 15 months and continues through wars under various names. The same sources stated that starvation, thirst, drowning in darkness, waste, and sewage, and the prevention of treatment and the entry of medical supplies are all other Zionist wars that continue to accompany the ongoing daily killing despite the ceasefire that has been in effect since January 19. It pointed out that the Zionist enemy's failure to implement the "humanitarian protocol" of the ceasefire agreement contributed to the increase in suffering and served to perpetuate and exacerbate it. She emphasized that the enemy's closure of the crossings at the end of the time specified for the first phase of the agreement is an attempt to blackmail the resistance and its negotiating delegation by putting more pressure on the civilian incubator of the resistance. Government officials in Gaza warned of the worsening humanitarian and environmental conditions, which have reached levels they described as "catastrophic and destructive." They called for pressure on the Zionist enemy to fulfill its obligations, end its control over civilians, and stop using their humanitarian needs as a bargaining chip. Khalil al-Daqran, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, emphasized that the continued closure of the crossings poses a direct threat to the lives of thousands of sick and injured people in the Gaza Strip, due to the Zionist enemy's prevention of the entry of essential medicines and medical supplies. Al-Daqran explained that the enemy has not adhered to humanitarian agreements and has only allowed the entry of 10% of basic medical needs, stressing that the "drip policy" of aid entry is killing patients daily. He explained that the health system in Gaza suffers from a severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and medical supplies, including ventilators and oxygen, which, he said, hinders hospitals' ability to provide life-saving services. He warned that the continued closure of crossings and the prevention of the entry of medical equipment, supplies, and medicines will lead to an increase in the death toll among patients, especially those suffering from chronic diseases and serious injuries. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the severe water shortage in the Gaza Strip has reached critical levels, with only one in ten people currently able to access safe drinking water—90% of the population. According to UNICEF's Gaza official, Rosalia Poulin, 600,000 people regained access to drinking water in November 2024, but were again cut off. UN agencies estimate that 1.8 million people, more than half of whom are children, are in urgent need of water, sanitation, and health assistance. They confirm that the situation has further deteriorated following the decision to cut off electricity to the Strip, disrupting vital desalination operations. For his part, Ismail al-Thawabta, Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, stressed that closing the crossings and preventing the entry of humanitarian and medical aid constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and endangers the lives of more than two million citizens in the Gaza Strip. In an interview with the Palestinian Information Center, al-Thawabta stated that closing the crossings is not merely a political decision, but rather a death sentence for thousands of sick and injured people who rely on medical aid and medicines that are prevented from entering the Gaza Strip. He explained that the repercussions of the closure of the crossings on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip are very serious, stressing that the continuation of this closure threatens an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. Regarding the impact of the closure of the crossings on the daily lives of the population, al-Thawabta emphasized that the Gaza Strip suffers from a severe shortage of basic food and fuel, disrupting the operation of hospitals, power plants, and water facilities. He said that the closure of the crossings not only threatens public health but also affects every aspect of daily life, as residents suffer from shortages of food, water, and electricity. Thawabtah warned that the continued closure of the crossings will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling on the international community and humanitarian organizations to urgently intervene to open the crossings and allow the immediate entry of humanitarian and medical aid. He also called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and pressure the occupation to open the crossings and save the lives of thousands of citizens suffering from shortages of medicine, food, and water. Thawabtah emphasized that the government in Gaza is working at all levels to address the crises afflicting the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that it needs urgent international support to save the Strip from the humanitarian catastrophe it is experiencing. He stated that Gaza is facing one of the most difficult crises in its history and requires concerted international efforts to save our people from this suffering. For his part, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned of the risk of a return to the situation of months ago "regarding the worsening hunger in the Gaza Strip." In a speech in Geneva, he explained that the recent measures taken by the Zionist enemy "aim to weaponize humanitarian aid provided to Gaza, especially as the situation in Gaza is deteriorating very rapidly." The UNRWA Commissioner-General accused the Zionist enemy of weaponizing humanitarian aid through its blockade of goods and the cutting off of electricity to Gaza. In his speech, Lazzarini also warned of a renewed hunger crisis if aid supplies are not resumed. The Zionist enemy authorities have halted all aid deliveries since the beginning of this month, accusing Hamas of rejecting a US proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza. The Zionist enemy government also decided on Sunday evening to cut off electricity, a move condemned by the United Kingdom and Germany. Supplies were cut off, as was electricity to the main desalination plant, which would significantly reduce the availability of drinking water in Gaza, according to the spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres. "The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by Israel's decision to limit electricity supplies to Gaza," said UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. "This latest decision will significantly reduce the availability of drinking water in the Gaza Strip." Lazzarini also criticized the Israeli move to cut aid and electricity, saying it is expected to have a growing impact on the people of Gaza. He explained that starting today, the facility will operate on backup generators, which will reduce water access. He stressed that restoring the facility's operation is "vital" for tens of thousands of families and children. M.M Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (Reports)
