UNITED NATIONS, March 1 (Xinhua) -- A UN team visited Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and brought aid, the first time the world body has been able to deliver aid into besieged northern Gaza in over a week, said UN humanitarians. A team from the Office for the Coordination of ...
JERUSALEM, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Chief of Israeli army's Southern Command Yaron Finkelman on Saturday said the raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza would end "only when the last terrorist is in the army's hands -- alive or dead." Finkelman made the remarks during a situation assess...
TEHRAN, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Hamad al-Busaidi on Sunday strongly condemned Israel's "brutal and inhumane" siege of the Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza and the killing of its patients and medical staff, ...
A Palestinian patient receives treatment at the dialysis department of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on Feb. 24, 2025. According to Palestinian medical officials, recently some parts of Al-Shifa Hospital have been restored to receive patients, but it hasn't met the urgent need of the ...
But Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza, said the military had ordered the facility cleared, giving the hospital an hour to get people out. "I was inside Al-Shifa hospital, and we were forced to evacuate by the Israelis," Dr. Ramez Radwan told Reu...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern about the developments in the hospital. "Hospitals should never be battlegrounds. We are terribly worried about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, which is endangering health workers, patients and civilians," Tedros Adhanom...
JERUSALEM, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Israel's army announced on Monday it withdrew its forces from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, concluding a two-week-long raid on the enclave's largest medical center. The medical complex, located in the hunger-stricken northern Gaza, became a refuge for thousands...
civilians as human shields. We would love to see Hamas take some of the fuel reserves it's sitting on and use that to supply hospitals in northern Gaza. We would love to see Hamas have taken the fuel that Israel offered it yesterday that they declined for use at...
GAZA, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian medical and security sources reported on Monday the discovery of at least nine bodies in the courtyard of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza Government Media Office, the bodies were victims of the Isra...
The Health Ministry in Gaza said in a statement that the Israeli military attacked the al-Shifa complex, blaming the army for aiming "to continue destroying the health system in northern Gaza." The ministry urged international organizations to "immediately" intervene to protect the hospital and the...