Tag Archives: Gaza

Israel’s army is flattening the remaining ruins of the city of Rafah on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, residents say, in what they fear is a part of a plan to herd the population into confinement in a giant camp on the barren ground. CBC | World News

The dead in the early-morning airstrike in a neighbourhood in western Gaza City included three women and five children, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies. CBC | World News

Liberal Leader Mark Carney urged Israel to allow the World Food Programme to work in Gaza, saying food must not be used as a “political tool,” hours after the UN agency said it had run out of stocks due to a sustained Israeli blockade on supplies. CBC | World News

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced families in northern Gaza killed at least 23 people, while another hit a children’s hospital, local health officials said. CBC | World News

The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes on Gaza in weeks on Tuesday, residents said, and health officials issued a new warning that healthcare faced total collapse from Israel’s blockade of all supplies. CBC | World News

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Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike which Israel said was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility. CBC | World News

Hundreds of thousands of Gaza City residents have lost their only source of clean water in the past week after supplies from Israel’s water utility were cut by the Israeli army’s renewed offensive, municipal authorities in the territory said. CBC | World News

Israel’s military said Friday it will fire air force reservists who signed a letter condemning the war in Gaza and accusing it of only serving political interests and not bringing the hostages home.  CBC | World News

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