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ABC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
British comedian Russell Brand pleads not guilty to rape charges
Photo shows North Gaza without aid: child sits on a pile of aid boxes, holding up a jar of food, surrounded by other children and people Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 9 seconds . 2 m 9 s
ABC News
2 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Remembering Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance fighters
Photo shows North Gaza without aid: child sits on a pile of aid boxes, holding up a jar of food, surrounded by other children and people Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 9 seconds . 2 m 9 s
BBC News
3 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Last hospital in North Gaza governorate evacuated after Israeli order
The last hospital providing health services in the North Gaza governorate is out of service after the Israeli military ordered its immediate evacuation, the hospital's director has Mohammed Salha said patients were evacuated from al-Awda hospital in Jabalia on Thursday evening. He told the BBC "we are feeling really bad about this forced evacuation" after "two weeks of siege", saying there is now "no health facility working in the north".Israel has not yet commented, but the BBC has contacted the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). "We're really sad that we evacuated the hospital, but the Israeli occupation forces threatened us that if we didn't evacuate, they would enter and kill whoever is inside," Dr Salha said in a voice note to the BBC. "Or they would bomb the hospital. We were thinking of the lives of patients and our staff."Dr Salha told the BBC the hospital faced "a lot of bombing and shooting from the tanks" from around noon local time (09:00 GMT) on Thursday. He received a call from the Israeli forces at about 13:00 to evacuate, and initially refused because there were patients in need of healthcare. He offered to stay with another 10 of his staff and evacuate the others, but the military refused, he said. After seven hours of negotiations, the evacuation occurred at about 20: carried patients more than 300 metres (984 feet) to ambulances parked far away from the hospital "because the roads are totally destroyed".A video sent by Dr Salha of the evacuation, and verified by the BBC, shows a line of ambulances with lights and sirens on driving at night."Due to impassable roads" the hospital's medical equipment could not be relocated, the World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian agency OCHA said on Thursday "ongoing hostilities over the past two weeks have damaged the hospital, disrupted access, and created panic, deterring people from seeking care". Patients were evacuated to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Salha told the BBC they would provide services through a primary health centre in Gaza City and said another might be established in a Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, said the closure of al-Awda meant there was no remaining functioning hospital in the North Gaza governorate, "severing a critical lifeline for the people there". "WHO pleads for the hospital's protection and staff and patients' safety, and reiterates its call for the active protection of civilians and healthcare," he said. "Hospitals must never be attacked or militarized."The IDF had ordered evacuations of the areas of Al-Atatra, Jabalia Al-Balad, Shujaiya, Al-Daraj and Al-Zeitoun on Thursday evening, spokesperson Avichay Adraee said at the time on social media."Terrorist organisations continue their subversive activity in the region, and therefore the IDF will expand its offensive activity in the areas where you are present to destroy the capabilities of the terrorist organisations," he said."From this moment on, the mentioned areas will be considered dangerous combat."Al-Awda hospital was inside an evacuation zone announced last week, but had still been functioning, its director previously said.A statement from 18 charities on Thursday said the hospital was under military besiegement "for the fourth time since October 2023 and has been struck at least 28 times". The emergency room was hit, injuring four staff, and the desalination plant and storage unit also struck, leading to the loss of all medicine, supplies and equipment, the charities IDF told the BBC last week it was "operating in the area against terror targets", but that it was "not aware of any siege on the hospital itself".Apart from hospitals, some primary healthcare centres are still operating in Gaza, with 61 out of 158 partially or fully functional as of 18 May, OCHA said. Nine out of 27 UN Palestinian refugee agency health centres were also did not report how many, if any, centres were in the north Gaza governorate. Israel is continuing its bombardment of Gaza, which most Palestinians are not currently able to leave, after a brief ceasefire earlier this began to allow a limited amount of aid into Gaza last week, after a nearly three-month blockade that halted the delivery of supplies including food, medicine, fuel and shelter. Security broke down and looting took place as Palestinians searched for food in Gaza City on Thursday. Scenes of chaos have also broken out at aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - a US-and Israeli-backed UN and many aid groups have refused to co-operate with the GHF's plans, which they say contradict humanitarian principles and appear to "weaponise aid".Israel said it imposed the blockade on Gaza to pressurise Hamas to release the remaining hostages, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive. It has also accused Hamas of stealing aid, which the group denies.A UN-backed assessment this month said Gaza's 2.1 million people were at a "critical risk" of famine. The UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC people in the territory were being subjected to "forced starvation" by launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 54,249 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 3,986 since Israel resumed its offensive on 18 March, according to the territory's Hamas-run health reporting by Naomi Scherbel-Ball and Alice Cuddy in Jerusalem
Al Jazeera
3 days ago
- Health
- Al Jazeera
Live: Israel forces new displacement in north Gaza as strikes intensify
Israel has issued forced displacement orders for five more areas in north Gaza, as it continues to squeeze the Strip's population into smaller areas of the is currently reviewing a new ceasefire proposal the United States says has been signed off on by Israel, but that in its current form will only result in more killings in Health Ministry says Israel's ordering al-Awda Hospital to close is a 'crime', as Palestinians struggle to find care in a health system decimated by Israeli war on Gaza has killed at least 54,249 Palestinians and wounded 123,492, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The 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 of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive. Update: Date: 1m ago (06:07 GMT) Title: At least 6 killed in Israeli attack on Jabalia Content: Al Jazeera's correspondent reports that six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack that targeted a house in Jabalia's an-Nazla area, northern Gaza. The areas surrounding an-Nazla are currently under forced evacuation orders from the Israeli military. Update: Date: 3m ago (06:05 GMT) Title: Israel continues to clear out north Gaza with new evacuation orders Content: The army's Arabic language spokesperson has said on X that Palestinians in the 'Atatra, Jabalia Al-Balad, Shujaiya, Daraj and Zeitoun' areas must immediately leave and move west. Israel has been systematically clearing out parts of the Gaza Strip with orders such as these, pushing the Palestinian population into smaller and smaller areas of the enclave. The stated goal of its new offensive, Gideon's Chariot, is to expand its control of the Gaza Strip's territory, concentrating the people there into tiny sections of the enclave. Update: Date: 5m ago (06:03 GMT) Title: A recap of recent developments Content: Here's what you need to know: Update: Date: 8m ago (06:00 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 Thursday, May 29, here.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- BBC News
Nearly 100 people killed in Israeli attack on Gaza - Hamas-run civil defence
Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early Friday in north Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defence and residents have said. The civil defence said at least nine homes and tents housing civilians had been bombed overnight and it had received dozens of calls from people also reported smoke bombs, artillery shelling and tanks in Beit military said it was "operating to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure sites" in north Gaza and had "eliminated several terrorists" over the past marks the largest ground assault on north Gaza since Israel resumed its offensive in March. Follow live coverageBasheer al-Ghandour, who fled Beit Lahia for Jabalia after the attack, told the BBC people were sleeping when suddenly "intense bombing" hit overnight."It came from all sides - air strikes and warships. My brother's house collapsed. There were 25 people inside," he said 11 people were injured and five killed, including his nieces, aged five and 18, and a 15-year-old nephew. He and others tried to free relatives from the rubble."My brother's wife is still under the rubble - we didn't manage to rescue her. Because of how intense the bombing was, we had to flee," he said."We didn't take anything with us - no furniture, no food, no flour. We even left in bare feet."Another survivor, Yousif Salem, told reporters he and his three children had "just escaped death"."An air strike hit our neighbours' home - none of them survived," he said artillery shells began hitting near their house as they were trapped inside. When he tried to leave, a quadcopter drone opened fire, he said. He made a second attempt under heavy shelling, he said. All roads were blocked, but they managed to find a side road."We escaped only minutes before Israeli tanks encircled the area," he to local residents, the attack began with smoke bomb barrages followed by intense artillery shelling from nearby Israeli then began advancing toward Al-Salateen neighbourhood in western Beit reported that Israeli armoured vehicles surrounded a school sheltering hundreds of displaced civilians. The attack in north Gaza comes after Israeli air strikes killed more than 120 people, mostly in the south, on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday it had struck more than 150 "terror targets" throughout Gaza over the past day, including anti-tank missile posts, military structures, and centres where groups were planning to "carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops".In south Gaza, the IDF said it had dismantled Hamas structures and shafts and killed "several terrorists" who Israel said had planned to plant an explosive Friday's powerful overnight strikes and reported advance by ground troops west of Beit Lahia are significant, this does not yet look like Israel's threatened major military government has pledged to intensify operations in Gaza and indefinitely reoccupy the Strip if Hamas did not accept a proposal for a temporary ceasefire and the return of remaining hostages by the end of President Donald Trump's regional trip, which concluded on there has been no sign of a breakthrough with negotiating teams still in Doha, local media say that Arab mediators have been pushing for more time to give talks a chance.A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas agreed in January broke down when Israel relaunched air strikes on Gaza in also implemented a total blockade on humanitarian aid, including defence minister Israel Katz last month said the blockade was a "main pressure lever" to secure victory over Hamas and get all the hostages out. Aid organisations and residents say people in Gaza are now going hungry. A recent UN-backed report said Gaza's whole population – some 2.1 million people – is at critical risk of Israeli government has insisted there is no shortage of food in Gaza and that the "real crisis is Hamas looting and selling aid". Israel and the US have proposed allowing in and distributing aid through private companies - a plan rejected by the deteriorating situation in Gaza has drawn concern from the US this his flight home from the Middle East, Trump said the US needs to "help out the Palestinians" and acknowledges "a lot of people are starving".On Thursday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration was "troubled" by the humanitarian launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health hostages are still being held in Gaza, up to 23 of whom are believed to be reporting by Yolande Knell and Alice Cuddy in Jerusalem
