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Al Manar
3 days ago
- Politics
- Al Manar
Gaza Death Toll Rises as Israeli Occupation Forces Intensify Bombardment
The Israeli occupation forces continue their war of genocide against the Gaza Strip, resuming it 73 days ago and 601 days after the start of the aggression. This followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reneging on the ceasefire agreement, relying on American political and military support, amid international silence and unprecedented abandonment by the international community and Arab regimes. Children burst into tears as they console their mother after their father was killed in an Israeli strike that hit their home in Gaza. — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 29, 2025 According to Palestinian sources, at least 70 Palestinian civilians were martyred in airstrikes across Gaza since Friday dawn. Multiple neighborhoods faced heavy bombardment, with Israeli occupation forces targeting the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Three casualties were reported at the Baptist Hospital following strikes on Nakhil Street in the Tuffah neighborhood, while three additional bodies were recovered near the Shaaban al-Rayyes School in the same area. Locals recover the bodies of three Palestinians who were killed by the Israeli army in an attack on the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City. — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 30, 2025 Further casualties occurred when Israeli forces bombed civilians near the Saftawi Junction north of Gaza City. Artillery shelling targeted Shuja'iyya neighborhood, while drone strikes hit Qizan Rashwan south of Khan Yunis. The town of Al-Fakhari in southern Gaza was also struck, alongside two raids near the supply center in Tuffah neighborhood. One more Palestinian family erased from the civil registry. Yesterday, an Israeli airstrike on the Abu al-Kass family home in Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City killed Sobhi Shafiq Abu al-Kass, his wife, their two sons, their daughters-in-law, and their children. The entire… — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 30, 2025 In central Gaza, Israeli drones targeted civilians near Al-Da'wa entrance north of Nuseirat, causing multiple injuries. Artillery shells landed east of Deir al-Balah. Meanwhile, Al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar reported that Israeli forces demanded immediate evacuation of the facility, which still houses 97 people including 13 patients and 84 medical staff. Hospital officials described explosive detonations and gunfire around the building, describing it as intimidation tactics. One Palestinian was killed and others injured late last night in an Israeli drone attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in Al-Mawasi, the area proclaimed as a safe zone by the Israeli occupation army west of Khan Younis. — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 30, 2025 Gaza's Ministry of Interior and National Security reported that Israeli aircraft struck police officers at Saraya Junction in central Gaza City while they were confronting thieves, resulting in multiple casualties among officers and bystanders. Palestinian sources confirmed at least six deaths in this incident.
CBS News
6 days ago
- Health
- CBS News
Tiny girl who emerged from flames of Israeli strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter says "fire filled the sky"
What to know about the controversial aid group beginning operations in Gaza Harrowing cell-phone video shows the tiny silhouette of Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil trudging through rubble, her make-shift shelter engulfed in flames around her, after an Israeli strike hit the school where she and her family had fled to escape the war raging around them in the Gaza Strip. Khalil, just five years old, survived. Her mother and five of her siblings did not make it out of the burning building. When she returned to the scene of the attack, she found her sister's abandoned flip-flop and broke down sobbing. "They all died after a rocket fell on top of them," she told CBS News' team in Gaza through tears. "The rocket came down and the place was on fire. The fire was raging. It burned my arm." "The fire filled the sky and the ground," she said. "I was asleep, but I came out from the fire. When I came out, I did not find my dad. They took me to the Baptist Hospital, and I saw dad on the way, in the ambulance. I saw him. He had many wounds on his face." "Dad is alive, and my brother Seraj is alive, and I am alive. That's all. But all my other siblings are dead," the little girl, held in the arms of her uncle, told CBS News. "I wish we could get together again." Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil, 5, a Palestinian girl who survived an Israeli strike on the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City where she was sheltering with her displaced family, is seen amid the ruins of the school the next day, held by her uncle, May 26, 2025. Anadolu/Getty The Israeli strike took place in the middle of the night. The Israel Defense Forces said the target was a Hamas command and control center inside the school building. Rescuers in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Territory said the strike killed 33 people. European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen called the attack "abhorrent" on Tuesday during a call with Jordan's King Abdullah II, according to a readout of the call from the EU cited by the French news agency AFP. "The expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza targeting civilian infrastructure, among them a school that served as a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is abhorrent," von der Leyen said, according to the EU. "The European Commission has always supported — and will continue to support — Israel's right to security and self-defense. But this escalation and disproportionate use of force against civilians cannot be justified under humanitarian and international law." Palestinians comb the area following an Israeli airstrike at dawn on a school in the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City that killed more than 30 people on May 26, 2025. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty Khalil's uncle, Iyad Mohamed el-Sheikh Khalil, holding his niece, told CBS News that his whole family had been displaced by the war, including his brother who had sought shelter with his wife and children at the school in Gaza City's Daraj neighborhood. When he heard reports of a strike on the school, he immediately tried to make contact. "Some pictures were released in the media. When I looked at them, I saw Ward with the Civil Defense. I immediately knew that it was my niece," he said. "When I came, I saw that the bodies of my brother's family were all charred and torn to pieces. It took a while to locate the body of her (Ward's) elder brother, Abed, so that we could bury them all together. It was a horrific scene." He worried about the lasting impact of living through such trauma on Gaza's children, including his niece. "When they come out of such bombardment and such war, how do you want children to feel? They must be in a terrible psychological state. Even we are in a terrible psychological state," he told CBS News. Ward al-Sheikh Jalil, who survived an Israeli attack on the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City, is seen in the ruins of the building, where she found slippers that belonged to her and her siblings, May 26, 2025. Anadolu/Getty Amid the bombings, Palestinians in Gaza also face a critical struggle to find food, after a nearly three-month-long Israeli blockade on all humanitarian goods entering the territory. Under pressure from its allies, including the U.S., Israel began allowing some humanitarian goods into Gaza last week, but aid agencies say it's not nearly enough to meet the needs of the enclave's roughly 2 million inhabitants. The newly established U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation also said it began distributing food on Monday. The GHF said Tuesday that it had distributed a total of about 462,000 meals over two days of operation. The United Nations and other aid organizations have objected to the group's methods, calling it a distraction. "Even when they bring aid, nothing reaches us," Islam Abu Taemia said while scavenging for food with her child in Gaza this week. "We're like stray dogs collecting food from trash. If we don't, we starve."
Saba Yemen
12-05-2025
- Saba Yemen
Martyrs in Israeli Shelling in Gaza
Gaza - Saba: A number of Palestinians were killed and wounded on Sunday in Israeli artillery and airstrikes targeting a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and a civilian car in the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. The Palestine Today Agency reported that a father and his daughter were killed in an Israeli shelling of their home near Al-Abrar Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood, they were taken to the Baptist Hospital. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
What you missed: New downtown development, UWF trustees confirmed
Here's a roundup of our top stories from the past week. With a subscription to the Pensacola News Journal, you will receive full access to the work done by our journalists and photographers as they head out every day to help inform and explain the important issues affecting your community. A dispute between Pensacola and Escambia County over the county's pledge of $2 million for the demolition of the old Baptist Hospital appears to be brewing, another sign of tensions between the two local governments. The dispute is arising as the city and county prepare to embark on another major partnership: the modernization of Pensacola Bay Center. Rising tensions: Tensions rise between Pensacola and Escambia County over Baptist Hospital demolition A controversial season surrounding appointments to the University of West Florida and Pensacola State College governing boards ended April 29 with the full Florida Senate confirming eight trustees. Paul Bailey, Rebecca Matthews, Rachel Moya, Ashley Ross and Chris Young were confirmed to serve on the UWF Board of Trustees. The terms for Matthews, who is board chair, and Ross will expire on Jan. 6, 2030. Bailey's term will end Jan. 6, 2026, and Young and Moya will serve through Jan. 6, 2028. The five trustees were among eight appointments made to the university's board in January. The Florida Board of Governors nominated Matthews, Moya and Ross, with Gov. Ron DeSantis appointing Bailey, Young, Scott Yenor, Gates Garcia and Adam Kissel. Of DeSantis' appointments, only Bailey and Young made it to the full Senate. UWF, PSC trustees confirmed: Florida Senate confirms UWF, PSC trustees, ending controversial saga In a few weeks, Brylee Ponce and Amanda Edgar will reach two of life's major milestones. Ponce, a Navarre High senior, and Edgar, a West Florida Tech senior, will earn their high school diplomas along with associate degrees in May. Because of Florida's Dual Enrollment Program, the two women will complete the first two years of college without any debt. Dual enrollment – one of the Florida's best-kept secrets – allows public secondary, charter, homeschool and private school students to take college or university courses while earning credit toward a high school diploma, a career certificate or an associate or bachelor's degree at a state public or eligible private institution. The program is free – Florida being one of the only states to fully fund dual enrollment. Funded through a state appropriation, the Dual Enrollment Scholarship Program reimburses eligible postsecondary institutions for students' tuition and instructional materials for fall and spring term courses. Free college courses: One of Florida's best-kept secrets offers debt-free degree and a head start on life A former Escambia County Public Schools substitute teacher has filed a lawsuit against the school district claiming they were discriminated against because of their gender identity. Hane Cypress McLeaish, a transgender nonbinary individual, filed the lawsuit March 23 in U.S. District Court. The suit names current Superintendent Keith Leonard, former superintendent Tim Smith, principal Elizabeth Greenberg, school board members Kevin Adams and Paul H. Fetsko and former school board members Laura Edler, Patty Hightower and Bill Slayton in their official capacities – as parties in the litigation. In the lawsuit, McLeaish seeks damages and prospective injunctive relief for the discriminatory and/or retaliatory suspension and termination of employment as an Escambia County schoolteacher − in violation of the sex discrimination and anti-retaliation provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lawsuit: Fired transgender teacher files lawsuit against Escambia County Public Schools Downtown Pensacola craft brewery, The 5 Barrel, is undergoing a significant renovation in collaboration with commercial investor Tracy Goodson, who owns the building at 121 S. Palafox St. If all goes to plan, the property could soon be transformed into an upscale restaurant on the bottom floor, and a boutique hotel on the upper levels. Pensacola attorney Jason Mosley, co-founder of The 5 Barrel, will be taking over the former Casks & Flights space next door as part of the expansion for the roughly 125-seat upscale restaurant and six-lane duckpin bowling alley. Downtown development: Boutique hotel with upscale restaurant and duckpin bowling planned for Palafox Street This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Pensacola news: New downtown development, UWF trustees confirmed
Saba Yemen
19-04-2025
- Health
- Saba Yemen
Al-Quds Military Hospital Staff condemn Zionist enemy's targeting of Gaza's health sector
Sana'a - Saba: Staff members of al-Quds Military Hospital staged a protest in the capital Sana'a on Saturday condemning the Israeli enemy's bombing of the Baptist Hospital and its continued targeting of civilians, doctors, paramedics, and civil defense teams, as well as the broader assault on the health sector in Gaza. The protest was attended by the hospital's director, Brigadier General Dr. Abdulkarim al-Qudami, along with medical and administrative staff. Participants strongly denounced the attack on the Baptist Hospital and other crimes committed against the health infrastructure in Gaza. They described the attack as a blatant violation of all international norms and conventions and criticized the international community's silence regarding the crimes committed by the Zionist enemy against the Palestinian people, particularly the health sector. The participants called on the international community, the United Nations, and human rights organizations to fulfill their responsibilities to protect civilians, take urgent action to halt these crimes, and hold the perpetrators accountable. A statement issued during the protest praised the Yemeni leadership and people for their steadfast support of their brothers in Gaza and Palestine through all effective and impactful means. It also called on the armed forces to continue and escalate their military operations. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
