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Al Jazeera
4 days ago
- Health
- Al Jazeera
LIVE: Israel destroys Gaza dialysis centre; outrage grows at GHF killings
Israeli forces have killed 54 people in Gaza and destroyed the only facility for kidney dialysis patients in the north of the and aid groups denounce Israeli killings of dozens of starving Palestinians seeking food near distribution points set up by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).Egypt and Qatar announce new efforts to secure a ceasefire deal based on a US-backed proposal for a 60-day truce and the entry of humanitarian war on Gaza has killed at least 54,418 Palestinians and wounded 124,190, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The Gaza Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive. Update: Date: 11m ago (04:15 GMT) Title: Three killed in Israeli attack at US-backed aid site Content: We are getting reports there has been a fresh Israeli attack on Palestinians who gathered at the GHF aid distribution point in Rafah just moments ago. At least three people were killed and 35 others were wounded, according to medical sources. As we've been reporting, Israeli forces killed at least 31 people at the same site on Sunday. Update: Date: 26m ago (04:00 GMT) Title: Israel destroys North Gaza's only dialysis centre Content: Here's what we know: Translation: After it was renovated and reopened just weeks ago to serve dialysis patients—as the only kidney dialysis center in Gaza City and the northern governorate—which had been serving over 160 kidney failure patients in northern Gaza, and despite operating under severe shortages of fuel and medical supplies, the Israeli occupation has destroyed the Nour Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center at the Indonesian Hospital. Update: Date: 41m ago (03:45 GMT) Title: UN condemns Israel's 'militarised' aid mechanism in Gaza Content: The UN's human rights office (OHCHR) has joined the chorus of concern over the Israeli killings of Palestinian aid seekers at the GHF sites in southern Rafah and near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza. It said the killings on Sunday follow multiple reports of deadly attacks at the sites between May 27 and 31, that killed at least 19 Palestinians and wounded 80 others. The office stressed 'once more that Israel's militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism violates international standards on aid distribution, endangers civilians, and is contributing to the catastrophic situation in Gaza'. It added, 'The weaponisation of food for civilians and restricting or preventing their access to other life sustaining services constitute a war crime and may constitute elements of other international crimes, including genocide.' Update: Date: 49m ago (03:37 GMT) Title: WATCH: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians waiting for food at US-backed Gaza aid sites Content: Israeli forces have opened fire on a group of desperate Palestinians gathered near an aid distribution site in Rafah, in southern Gaza. At least 31 people were killed and more than a hundred others injured. The distribution point is managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – a controversial group backed by both Israel and the US. Watch our video report below: This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Update: Date: 53m ago (03:33 GMT) Title: A recap of recent developments Content: Update: Date: 56m ago (03:30 GMT) Title: Welcome to our live coverage Content: Hello, and thank you for joining our live coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, as well as its attacks on the occupied West Bank and the wider region. Follow this page for round-the-clock updates and analyses of the latest developments. You can read about key events from Sunday, June 1, here.
Al Jazeera
22-05-2025
- Health
- Al Jazeera
Israeli strikes kill 51 in Gaza as aid groups collect limited supplies
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed dozens of Palestinians since dawn, medical sources said, as limited supplies of humanitarian aid trickled into the Palestinian territory after Israel eased its total blockade. Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 51 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Thursday, including 25 in Gaza City and northern areas of the Strip. At least 10 people, including nine members of the same family, were killed in an Israeli attack that hit an area housing displaced people in the al-Baraka area of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Five people were killed in an Israeli attack on the Bakhit family home in the as-Saftawi area, in northwest Gaza, Wafa reported. In Beit Lahiya on the northern edge of the enclave, a tank shell hit a medicine warehouse inside Al-Awda Hospital and set it ablaze, the health ministry said. Rescue workers had been trying to extinguish the fires for hours, it added. Tanks are stationed outside the hospital, medics say, effectively blocking access to the facility. The attacks come as aid groups collected humanitarian supplies carried by about 90 trucks that have entered Gaza since Israel began allowing limited goods in earlier this week, the United Nations said on Thursday. Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Humanitarian agency OCHA, said the trucks that entered carried medicine, wheat flour and nutrition supplies. Aid groups face significant challenges distributing the aid because of insecurity, the risk of looting and coordination issues with Israeli authorities, Laerke added. The Gaza Government Media Office said late on Wednesday that 87 aid trucks were allocated to international and local organisations to meet 'urgent humanitarian needs'. Al Jazeera's Tarek Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said the food trucks entered on Wednesday and 'successfully off-loaded' at designated UN distribution centres. Since then, some bakeries have 'resumed operations', he said, citing Gaza's media office. 'This has been a significant logistical step forward,' Abu Azzoum said, but noted that the supplies were still a 'trickle' compared with the needs of the population in Gaza, where experts warn of a looming famine. Due to security concerns, food aid has also not yet reached the northern part of Gaza, where thousands of civilians are also under siege, our correspondent said. 'The question here remains whether Israel would allow an unconditional flow of aid to the Gaza Strip,' he said, adding that the UN has been demanding at least 500 food trucks be allowed into the territory daily after more than 80 days of a complete blockade. On Wednesday, the UN said it was trying to get the desperately needed aid as quickly as possible into the hands of Palestinians amid delays because of fears of looting and Israeli military restrictions and strikes. Palestinians have been scrambling for basic supplies after weeks of near-total isolation, with Israel's blockade leading to critical food and medicine shortages, and fears of a widespread famine. According to the UN, half a million people, or one in five people in the Gaza Strip, are facing starvation while the entire population continues to face a critical risk of famine. Pope Leo XIV described the situation in Gaza as 'worrying and painful' and called for 'the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid'. In recent days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel is days away from implementing a new aid system in Gaza that has come under heavy international criticism. He said Israel later plans to create a 'sterile zone' there, free of Hamas, where the population, which has repeatedly evacuated and relocated throughout the war, would be moved and receive supplies. Gaza's health ministry said at least 3,509 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18. At least 53,655 have been killed since Israel launched its assault on Gaza in October 2023, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Arab News
18-05-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Gaza a ‘slaughterhouse,' says British surgeon
LONDON: A British surgeon working in southern Gaza has described treating severe explosive injuries and compared the Palestinian enclave to a 'slaughterhouse' amid escalating Israeli attacks. Overnight, at least 130 people were reported killed as Israeli forces launched extensive ground operations in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, forcing the closure of some of its main medical facilities. Dr. Tom Potokar said in a video that medical staff were treating severe explosive injuries in southern Gaza. A post shared by Alex Crawford (@ 'It's difficult to describe in words what's happening here (with the) constant sound of bombardment, jets overhead,' he added. Following the Hamas attack in October 2023 that killed nearly 1,200 people, Israeli forces launched an air, ground and sea campaign on Gaza, killing over 52,000 Palestinians and displacing and injuring hundreds of thousands. Potokar said he treated a young woman who 'is not yet aware that everyone in (her) family was killed in the onslaught.' He added: 'Another day of devastation here in Gaza ... The stories coming from the north ... absolutely horrific ... particularly around the Indonesian Hospital.' The hospital, one of the largest partially functioning medical facilities in Beit Lahia, has ceased operations due to Israeli bombing. In the south, the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Yunis announced that it was out of service last week, while the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah said it can no longer operate its surgical department amid the Israeli attacks. Since March, Israel has enforced a blockade on aid, prompting a warning from UN food experts about the imminent risk of mass starvation in Gaza.
Al Jazeera
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Children among several killed in Israel's attacks on Gaza amid aid blockade
Seven people, including three children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip amid a months-long Israeli blockade that has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn coastal enclave. Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli warplanes bombed a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing five members of the Tlaib family. 'Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an [Israeli] occupation aircraft,' family member Omar Abu al-Kass told the AFP news agency. The strikes came 'without warning and without having done anything wrong', added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the children's maternal grandfather. In parallel, a drone attack on Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood left one person dead. Further south, Wafa said Israeli gunboats opened 'heavy fire' on the shores of Rafah, killing a man identified as Mohammed Saeed al-Bardawil. Two more civilians were injured in an attack on the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, west of Rafah. In the past 24 hours, at least 23 Palestinians have been killed and 124 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave's Health Ministry. The attacks came amid Israel's continuing refusal to allow vital supplies into Gaza since March 2, leaving the enclave's 2.3 million residents dependent on a dwindling number of charity kitchens, which have been shutting down in recent days as food runs out. Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary said: 'There's barely food … We're talking about bakeries not operating, we're talking about zero distribution points and we're talking about only a few hot meal kitchens still operating.' Khoudary said people queueing for hours would often leave empty-handed, with remaining kitchens stretching out food that would previously have fed 100 to serve up to 2,000 people. 'We're seeing more people dying, we're seeing more children dying due to malnutrition and the lack of food. But it's not only the lack of food, it's also the lack of medical supplies, it's the lack of fuel, cooking gas and it's the lack of everything,' she said. Among the charities shuttering operations, the United States-based World Central Kitchen said on Wednesday that it had been forced to close down because it no longer had supplies to bake bread or cook meals. The United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs appealed for the blockade to be lifted. 'Children are starving, and dying. Community kitchens are shutting down. Clean water is running out,' it said on Friday in a post on X. The blockade is also having a devastating effect on people with chronic illnesses, depriving Palestinians who suffer from diabetes, cancer and rare conditions, of life-saving medication. Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said: 'Doctors here say the tragedy is not in what's happening, but in what is preventable.' 'These diseases have a treatment, but people of Gaza no longer have access to them, and they say that this is not just a failure of logistics, but of humanity,' he added. Mahmoud spoke to the father of a 10-year-old boy suffering from diabetes, who said insulin was not available across northern Gaza. 'I spend entire days searching pharmacies, hoping to find it. Sometimes we hear that individuals might have it, so I go to their homes to barter,' he said. Said al-Soudy, head of emergency in the oncology department of Gaza City's Al Helou International Hospital, told Al Jazeera: 'A large part of patients are struggling to find their essential medications. Without them, their health conditions deteriorate and may become life-threatening.' Pharmacist Rana Alsamak told Al Jazeera that Palestinians were unable to obtain medication for 'multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, chronic illnesses and … immune-related diseases'. 'These conditions now go largely untreated,' she said. On Friday, the United States said it was establishing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to coordinate aid deliveries into Gaza, with Israel providing military security for operations. The United Nations rejected the move, saying it would weaponise aid, violate principles of neutrality and cause mass displacement.
