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The Advertiser
24-05-2025
- Health
- The Advertiser
Nine of doctor's 10 children among latest Gaza dead
The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza 's Health Ministry said - a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible. The dead over the past day in Israel's renewed military offensive included nine of a doctor's 10 children, colleagues and the Health Ministry said. Najjar's husband was severely wounded and their only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in critical condition after Friday's strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said. The dead children ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health Ministry, told the AP that two of the children remained under the rubble. Israel's military in a statement said it struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces, and described the area of Khan Younis as a "dangerous war zone." It said it had evacuated civilians from the area, and "the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review." Earlier Saturday, a statement said Israel's air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day. The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war's toll to 53,901 since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3747 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 in an effort to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel's pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over two million people since early March. This week, the first small number of aid trucks entered the territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began. But they were far fewer than the about 600 trucks a day that had been entering during the ceasefire. Warnings of famine by food security experts, and images of desperate Palestinians jostling for bowls of food at the ever-shrinking number of charity kitchens, led Israel's allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow some aid to return. Netanyahu's government has sought a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established US-backed group, but the United Nations and partners have rejected it, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles. Israel may now be changing its approach to let aid groups remain in charge of non-food assistance, according to a letter obtained by the AP. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid but the UN and aid groups deny there is significant diversion. Hospitals in Gaza are again reporting attacks and other Israeli pressure. The Health Ministry said 11 security personnel have been trapped at the European Hospital in southern Gaza following heavy gunfire and air strikes since at least Tuesday. Dr Saleh Hams, director of the nursing department, said patients were evacuated after an Israeli strike on May 13. Hams said the security staff stayed behind to protect from looting, and that it was the only hospital in Gaza offering neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment. Israel said it will continue to strike Gaza until Hamas releases all of the 58 remaining Israeli hostages and disarms. Fewer than half of the hostages are believed to be alive since the October 7 attack, in which militants killed some 1200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 others. Hamas has said it will only return the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory. Netanyahu has rejected those terms and has vowed to maintain control over Gaza and facilitate what he refers to as the voluntary emigration of much of its Palestinian population. The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza 's Health Ministry said - a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible. The dead over the past day in Israel's renewed military offensive included nine of a doctor's 10 children, colleagues and the Health Ministry said. Najjar's husband was severely wounded and their only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in critical condition after Friday's strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said. The dead children ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health Ministry, told the AP that two of the children remained under the rubble. Israel's military in a statement said it struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces, and described the area of Khan Younis as a "dangerous war zone." It said it had evacuated civilians from the area, and "the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review." Earlier Saturday, a statement said Israel's air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day. The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war's toll to 53,901 since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3747 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 in an effort to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel's pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over two million people since early March. This week, the first small number of aid trucks entered the territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began. But they were far fewer than the about 600 trucks a day that had been entering during the ceasefire. Warnings of famine by food security experts, and images of desperate Palestinians jostling for bowls of food at the ever-shrinking number of charity kitchens, led Israel's allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow some aid to return. Netanyahu's government has sought a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established US-backed group, but the United Nations and partners have rejected it, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles. Israel may now be changing its approach to let aid groups remain in charge of non-food assistance, according to a letter obtained by the AP. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid but the UN and aid groups deny there is significant diversion. Hospitals in Gaza are again reporting attacks and other Israeli pressure. The Health Ministry said 11 security personnel have been trapped at the European Hospital in southern Gaza following heavy gunfire and air strikes since at least Tuesday. Dr Saleh Hams, director of the nursing department, said patients were evacuated after an Israeli strike on May 13. Hams said the security staff stayed behind to protect from looting, and that it was the only hospital in Gaza offering neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment. Israel said it will continue to strike Gaza until Hamas releases all of the 58 remaining Israeli hostages and disarms. Fewer than half of the hostages are believed to be alive since the October 7 attack, in which militants killed some 1200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 others. Hamas has said it will only return the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory. Netanyahu has rejected those terms and has vowed to maintain control over Gaza and facilitate what he refers to as the voluntary emigration of much of its Palestinian population. The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza 's Health Ministry said - a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible. The dead over the past day in Israel's renewed military offensive included nine of a doctor's 10 children, colleagues and the Health Ministry said. Najjar's husband was severely wounded and their only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in critical condition after Friday's strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said. The dead children ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health Ministry, told the AP that two of the children remained under the rubble. Israel's military in a statement said it struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces, and described the area of Khan Younis as a "dangerous war zone." It said it had evacuated civilians from the area, and "the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review." Earlier Saturday, a statement said Israel's air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day. The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war's toll to 53,901 since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3747 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 in an effort to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel's pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over two million people since early March. This week, the first small number of aid trucks entered the territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began. But they were far fewer than the about 600 trucks a day that had been entering during the ceasefire. Warnings of famine by food security experts, and images of desperate Palestinians jostling for bowls of food at the ever-shrinking number of charity kitchens, led Israel's allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow some aid to return. Netanyahu's government has sought a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established US-backed group, but the United Nations and partners have rejected it, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles. Israel may now be changing its approach to let aid groups remain in charge of non-food assistance, according to a letter obtained by the AP. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid but the UN and aid groups deny there is significant diversion. Hospitals in Gaza are again reporting attacks and other Israeli pressure. The Health Ministry said 11 security personnel have been trapped at the European Hospital in southern Gaza following heavy gunfire and air strikes since at least Tuesday. Dr Saleh Hams, director of the nursing department, said patients were evacuated after an Israeli strike on May 13. Hams said the security staff stayed behind to protect from looting, and that it was the only hospital in Gaza offering neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment. Israel said it will continue to strike Gaza until Hamas releases all of the 58 remaining Israeli hostages and disarms. Fewer than half of the hostages are believed to be alive since the October 7 attack, in which militants killed some 1200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 others. Hamas has said it will only return the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory. Netanyahu has rejected those terms and has vowed to maintain control over Gaza and facilitate what he refers to as the voluntary emigration of much of its Palestinian population. The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza 's Health Ministry said - a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible. The dead over the past day in Israel's renewed military offensive included nine of a doctor's 10 children, colleagues and the Health Ministry said. Najjar's husband was severely wounded and their only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in critical condition after Friday's strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said. The dead children ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health Ministry, told the AP that two of the children remained under the rubble. Israel's military in a statement said it struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces, and described the area of Khan Younis as a "dangerous war zone." It said it had evacuated civilians from the area, and "the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review." Earlier Saturday, a statement said Israel's air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day. The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war's toll to 53,901 since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3747 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 in an effort to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel's pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over two million people since early March. This week, the first small number of aid trucks entered the territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began. But they were far fewer than the about 600 trucks a day that had been entering during the ceasefire. Warnings of famine by food security experts, and images of desperate Palestinians jostling for bowls of food at the ever-shrinking number of charity kitchens, led Israel's allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow some aid to return. Netanyahu's government has sought a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established US-backed group, but the United Nations and partners have rejected it, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles. Israel may now be changing its approach to let aid groups remain in charge of non-food assistance, according to a letter obtained by the AP. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid but the UN and aid groups deny there is significant diversion. Hospitals in Gaza are again reporting attacks and other Israeli pressure. The Health Ministry said 11 security personnel have been trapped at the European Hospital in southern Gaza following heavy gunfire and air strikes since at least Tuesday. Dr Saleh Hams, director of the nursing department, said patients were evacuated after an Israeli strike on May 13. Hams said the security staff stayed behind to protect from looting, and that it was the only hospital in Gaza offering neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment. Israel said it will continue to strike Gaza until Hamas releases all of the 58 remaining Israeli hostages and disarms. Fewer than half of the hostages are believed to be alive since the October 7 attack, in which militants killed some 1200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 others. Hamas has said it will only return the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory. Netanyahu has rejected those terms and has vowed to maintain control over Gaza and facilitate what he refers to as the voluntary emigration of much of its Palestinian population.
Boston Globe
24-05-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
Nine of a doctor's 10 children are killed in Israel's latest strikes in Gaza
Najjar's husband was severely wounded and their only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in critical condition after Friday's strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said. Advertisement The dead children ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health Ministry, told the AP that two of the children remained under the rubble. In this frame grab from a video released by Gaza Civil Defense, workers collect human remains after an Israeli strike on a home in Khan Younis killed nine of a doctor's ten children while she was at work, according to the head of the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Uncredited/Associated Press Israel's military in a statement said it struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces, and described the area of Khan Younis as a 'dangerous war zone.' It said it had evacuated civilians from the area, and 'the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review.' Earlier Saturday, a statement said Israel's air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day. The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war's toll to 53,901 since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3,747 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 in an effort to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants. Advertisement Israel's pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over 2 million people since early March. This week, the first small number of aid trucks entered the territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began. But they were far fewer than the about 600 trucks a day that had been entering during the ceasefire. Warnings of famine by food security experts, and images of desperate Palestinians jostling for bowls of food at the ever-shrinking number of charity kitchens, led Israel's allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow some aid to return. Netanyahu's government has sought a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established U.S.-backed group, but the United Nations and partners have rejected it, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles. Israel may now be changing its approach to let aid groups remain in charge of non-food assistance, according to a letter obtained by the AP. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid but the U.N. and aid groups deny there is significant diversion. Hospitals in Gaza are again reporting attacks and other Israeli pressure. Israeli activists held photos of Palestinian children killed during the Israel air and ground operation in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the war, in Tel Aviv on Saturday. Leo Correa/Associated Press The Health Ministry said 11 security personnel have been trapped at the European Hospital in southern Gaza following heavy gunfire and airstrikes since at least Tuesday. Dr. Saleh Hams, director of the nursing department, said patients were evacuated after an Israeli strike on May 13. Hams said the security staff stayed behind to protect from looting, and that it was the only hospital in Gaza offering neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment. Advertisement Israel said it will continue to strike Gaza until Hamas releases all of the 58 remaining Israeli hostages and disarms. Fewer than half of the hostages are believed to be alive since the Oct. 7 attack, in which militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 others. Hamas has said it will only return the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory. Netanyahu has rejected those terms and has vowed to maintain control over Gaza and facilitate what he refers to as the voluntary emigration of much of its Palestinian population. AlJoud reported from Beirut.
Otago Daily Times
02-05-2025
- Health
- Otago Daily Times
PM brushes off hospital concerns
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday defended progress on the new Dunedin hospital project, despite rising clinician concern about possible cuts to planned beds in the facility. "I said to you last time that we would build a great hospital here in Dunedin for $1.9 billion, and that's what we're doing, and isn't it great that we're doing it," Mr Luxon — in Dunedin for National's Mainland conference — said. "We look forward to getting into construction in the middle of the year." In January the government, after a reconsideration of the project, announced that it would go ahead with building the 11-storey building on its intended site, as planned, but said that some areas would be shelved for future use rather than being open on day one. Taking a tour of harbourside engineering firm Farra Engineering yesterday are (from left) Rangitata MP and Minister for the South Island James Meager, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Farra managing director Gareth Evans. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON Last month Health Minister Simeon Brown announced that Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora had started a tender process for the next stage of construction of the hospital's inpatient building, with work recommencing on the former Cadbury site from mid-year However, in the past week clinicians have expressed concern about the number of intensive care unit beds to be open on day one and alarm about a drastic cut to older people's mental health beds. When asked about the clinician's concerns Mr Luxon brushed those aside. "Six years of a Labour government of utter inaction, and didn't deliver a single thing for the people of Dunedin on the Dunedin hospital and yet a new government in a very short period of time dealt with a cost overload and overrun and is going to deliver an awesome hospital for the people of Dunedin ... So we're quite comfortable."
Sharjah 24
11-04-2025
- Health
- Sharjah 24
Gaza rescuers say children among 10 killed in Israeli strike
The UN rights office report also warned that expanding Israeli evacuation orders were resulting in the "forcible transfer" of people into ever-shrinking spaces in the Palestinian territory, where the war began 18 months ago. The Israeli military said it was looking into the attack that killed members of the same family in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, adding in a separate statement that it had struck approximately 40 "terror targets" across the Palestinian territory over the past day. Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. Since then, more than 1,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory to which Israel cut off aid more than a month ago. "Ten people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital as martyrs following an Israeli air strike that targeted the Farra family home in central Khan Yunis," Gaza civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP. Medics and rescuers transported the dead and injured to hospital in multiple ambulances, with several bodies wrapped in white shrouds and blankets, AFP footage of the aftermath showed. Footage of the house showed a heavily destroyed structure. Mangled concrete slabs and twisted metal were strewn across the site. Witnesses reported continuous and intensive Israeli tank fire in Khan Yunis. The civil defence agency also reported two people killed in an Israeli strike in the Al-Atatra area in the northern city of Beit Lahia. 'Women and children' Early on Friday, the Israeli military issued an "urgent and serious" evacuation warning to residents of several areas east of Gaza City. "The IDF is operating with great force in your areas to destroy terrorist infrastructure. For your safety, you must evacuate these areas immediately and move to the known shelters in western Gaza City," Avichay Adraee, the military's Arabic-language spokesman, said on X. A separate military statement said its forces had overnight "deepened ground activity in the Morag Corridor," referring to a new buffer zone between the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis. The UN on Friday decried the impact of ongoing Israeli strikes across Gaza, finding that "a large percentage of fatalities are children and women". "Between 18 March and 9 April 2025, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people," the United Nations human rights office said in Geneva. It said that "in some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children". The Israeli military has repeatedly said that Palestinian militants often take refuge among civilians, a charge denied by Hamas. The war in Gaza broke out after Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures. During the attack, militants took 251 people hostage, 58 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. Gaza's health ministry said on Thursday that at least 1,522 Palestinians have been killed in the renewed Israeli operations since March 18, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,886. Ceasefire efforts A truce brokered by the United States, Egypt and Qatar that took effect on January 19 and lasted until March 17 saw the return of 33 Israeli hostages, eight of them in coffins, in exchange for the release of around 1,800 Palestinian prisoners. In a message marking the Jewish Passover holiday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his pledge to bring back the remaining captives. His comments came after US President Donald Trump suggested progress in hostage release talks, telling a cabinet meeting on Thursday that "we're getting close to getting them back". In his message for Passover -- a holiday celebrating the biblical liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt -- Netanyahu said "for many families there will be empty chairs" but "together we will return our hostages". Netanyahu has insisted increased military pressure is the only way to get the captives home but around 1,000 reserve and retired air force pilots challenged that premise in a full-page letter in multiple newspapers. A military official said they will be fired after their letter which said, "The war serves primarily political and personal interests". Israeli media reported Friday that Egypt and Israel had exchanged draft documents on a ceasefire-hostage release deal. The Times of Israel reported that the Egyptian proposal would provide for the release of eight living hostages and eight bodies in exchange for a truce of between 40 and 70 days and a large number of Palestinian prisoner releases.
Al-Ahram Weekly
11-04-2025
- Politics
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Israeli strike kills seven children among 10 family members: Gaza civil defence - War on Gaza
A pre-dawn Israeli air strike on Friday killed 10 members of the same family, including seven children, as the UN reported that dozens of recent Israeli attacks in Gaza had left only women and children dead. The UN human rights office also warned that expanding Israeli evacuation orders were leading to the 'forcible transfer' of people into ever-shrinking areas of the Palestinian territory, where the war began 18 months ago. The strike hit the Farra family home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. 'Ten people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital as martyrs following an Israeli air strike that targeted the Farra family home in central Khan Yunis,' said Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for Gaza's civil defence agency. Footage from the aftermath, published by AFP, showed medics and rescuers transporting the dead and wounded to hospital in several ambulances. Some bodies were wrapped in white shrouds and blankets. Images of the scene showed the house reduced to rubble, with mangled concrete slabs and twisted metal strewn across the site. Witnesses reported continuous and intense Israeli tank fire in Khan Younis. The civil defence agency said two more people were killed in a separate Israeli strike in the al-Atatra area of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. Israel resumed its war on Gaza on 18 March, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. Since then, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,500 people, according to the health ministry in Gaza, to which Israel cut off aid over a month ago. 'Women and children' Early on Friday, the Israeli military issued an 'urgent and serious' evacuation order to residents in several areas east of Gaza City. In a separate statement, the military said its forces had 'deepened ground activity in the Morag Corridor' overnight – referring to a new buffer zone between Rafah and Khan Younis in the south. The UN condemned the continuing Israeli strikes across Gaza, noting that 'a large percentage of fatalities are children and women'. 'Between 18 March and 9 April 2025, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people,' the UN human rights office said in Geneva. It added: 'In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children.' The Israeli military has repeatedly targeted civilian infrastructure, including media workers, medical personnel, and aid workers, as well as schools, hospitals and shelters for those displaced by the war. According to Gaza's health ministry, Israel's war on the strip has killed at least 50,886 people and wounded another 115,875 – the majority women and children. The ministry said that at least 1,522 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed its war on 18 March. *This story was edited by Ahram Online. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
