From the very start of Israel's war against Hamas, the death toll in Gaza has been disputed. On May 8th the controversy over the numbers, which media organisations includingThe Economistuse, intensified after the UN appeared to revise down its death toll for women and children. The UN switch...
Abu Taha is a resident of Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. In May, she and her three surviving children were among the first group of 27 injured Palestinians and their 42 companions to be brought to Baghdad for treatment by the Iraqi government. Although far from homeland, ...
Al Jazeera, which keeps a running tally of deaths in the region, reported that Israeli military attacks have killed at least43,603Palestinians living in Gaza as of 1 p.m. Gaza time Nov. 10. That’s about 1 in 55 people in the region,Al Jazeera reported. Advertise...
The occupation of Gaza, 40 years after 1967 and 58 years after 1948, is continuing and no one knows when it will end. Thousands including women and children have been killed, and many bread winners are jailed while th...
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 274 Palestinians, including dozens of children, were killed in the Israeli air and ground raid that rescued four hostages held by Hamas. (AP Video by Mohammad Jahjouh; Production Wafaa Shurafa) 2 of 4 | Palestinians look at the aftermath of th...
Some 80 per cent of the43,000 people killed by Israel in Gazaover the last 13 months have been women and children. The international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime Minister, and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, for war crimes. The ...
officials said. In May, a4-year-old girl accidentally shot and killedanother child in Illinois, authorities said. Another 4-year-old girl was critically injured after she accidentally shot herself in the head in Georgia; herfather had left the loaded gun on the floorof their home, police sai...
Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
LONDON: More than 1 million children in the Gaza Strip are at risk of contracting type 2 poliovirus, a highly infectious disease that can lead to paralysis and even death, as displacement and the destruction of sanitation infrastructure leaves the popula
shame. Although aid workers are supposed to be protected, the International Rescue Committee estimates that more than 300 of them have been killed since this war began. Surgeons, nurses, food agencies and general workers are more vulnerable in Gaza than during any other crisis in recent history....