One Samouni brother comes home in Gaza, recalls months of Israeli torture | Israel-Palestine conflict News

One Samouni brother comes home in Gaza, recalls months of Israeli torture | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Faraj al-Samouni, 39, sits in a tent in a makeshift camp in Deir el-Balah, surrounded by his family who can hardly believe he is alive after months of Israeli captivity. “My brothers didn’t recognise me when I was released,” he says. He is diminished, he lost…

‘Agony and pain’: US health professionals reflect on the horrors in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Agony and pain’: US health professionals reflect on the horrors in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The hospital where Sabha and Khan were stationed was also feeling a strain. Though it was designed for 200 people, it housed more than 10,000, according to Sabha. Many patients were suffering from severe injuries. Others faced amputations. Few had anywhere else to go. Sabha recalled that there was only…

Why Israel ordered yet another evacuation of Gaza’s Khan Younis | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Why Israel ordered yet another evacuation of Gaza’s Khan Younis | Israel-Palestine conflict News

For nearly nine months, Israel’s war on Gaza has forced Palestinians to run from place to place in search of pockets of safety in the besieged Strip. Israel’s latest mass evacuation order told 250,000 displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, to leave, as it carries out renewed attacks…

Gaza fighting continues despite Israeli ‘pauses’ announcement: UNRWA | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Gaza fighting continues despite Israeli ‘pauses’ announcement: UNRWA | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces battled with Palestinian groups in Rafah and elsewhere in southern Gaza despite the Israeli military’s announcement on Sunday of tactical pauses in operations to allow humanitarian aid to enter, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticised plans announced by the military…

Israel’s targeting of Gaza schools ‘eroding foundation for societal growth’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s targeting of Gaza schools ‘eroding foundation for societal growth’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

More than 76 percent of schools in Gaza require “full reconstruction or major rehabilitation” to be functional following Israel’s months-long onslaught, according to a new assessment shared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Based on satellite imagery collected in May, the new Education Cluster assessment highlights…

US sanctions Israeli group for attacking Gaza aid convoys | Israel-Palestine conflict News

US sanctions Israeli group for attacking Gaza aid convoys | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Washington, DC – The United States has imposed sanctions on a “violent extremist” Israeli group for blocking and damaging humanitarian aid convoys to Gaza as the risk of famine increases in the besieged Palestinian territory. The administration of President Joe Biden on Friday targeted Tzav 9, a group whose stated…

Significant part of Gaza facing ‘famine-like conditions’, WHO says | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Significant part of Gaza facing ‘famine-like conditions’, WHO says | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza have been diagnosed with malnutrition, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as Israel continues to severely restrict supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel to the territory. “A significant proportion of Gaza’s population is now facing catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions,” WHO chief…

US Gaza aid pier not used in Israel’s captives rescue mission: Pentagon | Israel-Palestine conflict News

US Gaza aid pier not used in Israel’s captives rescue mission: Pentagon | Israel-Palestine conflict News

US says it is ‘incidental’ that deadly Israeli operation took place near floating dock built to deliver aid to Gaza. The United States has stressed that its temporary aid pier in Gaza was not used in the Israeli captive rescue operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza that…

Dozens killed near Sudan’s capital as UN warns of soaring displacement | Conflict News

Dozens killed near Sudan’s capital as UN warns of soaring displacement | Conflict News

Attack in Khartoum’s sister city of Omdurman comes as UN says internal displacement across Sudan is nearing 10 million. Pro-democracy activists in Sudan say about 40 people have been killed in “violent artillery fire” by paramilitary forces in the twin city of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as fighting and displacement…