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...
Why Israel's long war ahead in Gaza will be nothing like what it's faced before Where Hamas gets its money and why it's hard to stop, even as the U.S. steps up Fuel, meanwhile, is running out in the Gaza Strip and a U.N. humanitarian relief agency warns its aid operations in ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared war on Hamas after the Palestinian armed group launched its largest attack on Israel in decades on Saturday. Thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into southern and central Israel as part of the Hamas's "Al-Aqsa flood opera...
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...
A senior Hamas leader earlier told Sky News all civilians among the hostages would be released if Israel reduced the intensity of bombing Gaza. "We want to stop the random bombardments, the total destruction, the genocide so that the al Qassam soldiers can...
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In June of 2007, a short civil war between the two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, resulted in the expulsion of Fatah forces from Gaza.Hamasis considered the more militant of the two groups, and Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and seeks to reclaim all Palestin...
“Israel cannot achieve its stated goal of eliminating Hamas, because Hamas is an integral part of the Palestinian society in the West Bank and Gaza. Itspopularity has increasedin the last several months,” said Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem-based expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict and author of...
Israel has issued calls to evacuate from new parts of the enclave, as its military said ground operations have been widened in the north and south. Doctors Without Borders condemned the UN Security Council’s compromise resolution, which calls for humanitarian pauses in Gaza but not a ceasefire...
Some context:TheGaza Striphas been almostcompletely cut offfrom the rest of the world for nearly 17 years. Governed by Hamas since 2007, the enclave is under strict siege by Egypt and Israel, which also maintains an air and naval blockade. It has been described by Human Rights Watch as th...