Israeli army surrounds Khan Younis as southern Gaza attacks intensify | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli army surrounds Khan Younis as southern Gaza attacks intensify | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces are surrounding the city of Khan Younis, Israel’s top military commander has said, as the ground offensive spreads to the south of the Gaza Strip. “Sixty days after the war began our forces are now encircling the Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza Strip,” said Lieutenant General…

Lebanon army says one soldier killed in Israeli shelling on border post | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Lebanon army says one soldier killed in Israeli shelling on border post | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Attack marks first death for Lebanon’s armed forces since cross-border attacks with Israel started in October. A Lebanese soldier has been killed in Israeli shelling on a military post near the country’s southern border, Lebanon’s army said, the first such death since cross-border hostilities began in October Three others were…

Is Israel’s Gaza bombing also a war on the climate? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Is Israel’s Gaza bombing also a war on the climate? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Many of the world’s leaders are gathered in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations summit on climate change. Some 2,400km (1,500 miles) to the West, meanwhile, Israel’s war on Gaza is raging. Sixty days into the war, Israel’s bombs have killed about 16,000 people, including more than 6,600 children….

Northern Gaza hospital ‘overwhelmed by horror’ as Israeli army lays siege | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Northern Gaza hospital ‘overwhelmed by horror’ as Israeli army lays siege | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Terrified civilians are trapped inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza as Israeli forces have encircled the medical facility, a senior official at the Ministry of Health tells Al Jazeera. More than 100 people have been killed in strikes close to the facility, the ministry said on Tuesday. “The…

Israel and WHO in online row over removal of medical supplies in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel and WHO in online row over removal of medical supplies in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

An online row has emerged between the World Health Organization (WHO) and Israel after the United Nations health body said the Israeli army ordered it to remove supplies from its warehouse in southern Gaza, a claim Israel then denied. The “WHO received notification” from the Israeli forces “that we should…

Will Israel heed US calls to protect civilians or risk ‘strategic failure’? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Will Israel heed US calls to protect civilians or risk ‘strategic failure’? | Israel-Palestine conflict

The administration of US President Joe Biden appears to be ramping up pressure on Israel to keep Palestinians safe. Israel’s military has resumed its assault on the besieged Gaza Strip after a seven-day truce collapsed. More than 15,000 people have been killed in Gaza since early October, according to Palestinian…

Fact or fiction? Israeli maps and AI do not save Palestinian lives | Israel-Palestine conflict

Fact or fiction? Israeli maps and AI do not save Palestinian lives | Israel-Palestine conflict

On December 2, the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted a map of Gaza, broken up into a grid of numbered blocks with instructions that Palestinians living in certain areas evacuate to Rafah. Leaflets containing a QR code linking to the map on the Israeli army’s website were also dropped…

There is nowhere safe for children to go in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

There is nowhere safe for children to go in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

By ordering families to move, Israel is not ensuring that they survive, but merely giving them the option to die another way, elsewhere. I have spent the last week in Gaza, where I’ve witnessed a dire situation becoming catastrophic. While visiting a shelter in the south, I met a displaced…

No end to suffering of Gaza children as Israeli attacks rage on | Israel-Palestine conflict News

No end to suffering of Gaza children as Israeli attacks rage on | Israel-Palestine conflict News

More than 6,600 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, the government’s media office says. Thousands more are missing under the rubble amid relentless bombardment, it added. On Friday, Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, warned that Gaza is once again…