The small strip of land between Egypt and Israel known as the Gaza Strip, has been a battleground in the ongoing Arab-Israeli Conflict since the 1940s. After the 1st Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949, Egypt annexed Gaza. In the 1956 and 1967 wars between Israel and Egypt, Israeli forces co...
Lynn Hastings, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory,said in a statementthat women and children are 62% of the victims in Israel and Gaza. "As intense airstrikes continued to rain down on Gaza, and as indiscriminate rockets fly into Israel, death injury, destructi...
This chapter is condensed from "Gaza Diary" published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine and the "Israel Update." Discusses an ongoing and growing partnership of my colleagues and my commitment to training health and mental health professionals in Israel and Gaza. We begin by helping...
The death toll continues to mount as the war enters its fourth week. At least 7,300 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry. In Israel, at least 1,400 people have been killed and 5,400 injured, according to the IDF. More than 220 hostage...
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An Israeli tank is seen near the Shalom Kerem crossing in southern Israel bordering the Gaza Strip, on May 6, 2024. Israeli media reported on Monday that Israel's war cabinet has approved the launch of a ground offensive on Rafah that would take place after the civil population is evacuated...
Along the Gaza-Egypt border, Israel will have its presence to thwart smuggling, according to the plan. Defying international calls for Palestinian statehood after the war, the plan shows Israel plans to maintain "security control" over the entire West Bank and the Gaza Strip. ...
Israel imposed a siege on Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, severing the crowded strip's access to water, power and fuel. A limited amount of water now comes in through Israel and Egypt but most people must drink from the local water supply — 96% of which is "unfit for human cons...
"This fight is about the existence of the State of Israel, I call it personally, our second independence war, and we must win," Hazan told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia." Asked aboutIsraeli warplanes' bombarding the Gaza Strip, where 2.2 million Palestinians live, the ambassador said: "Israel ...
Israelhas publicly accused Sinwar of being the “mastermind” behind Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on October 7 – though experts say he is likely one of several – making him one of the key targets of its war in Gaza. The attack was the deadliest assault in Israel’s history. H...