Palestinian Civil Defence announced Wednesday it will pull out of northern Gaza, saying its crews, which carry out first responder and search and rescue services, have been targeted by Israeli attacks as they tried to pull survivors — or bodies — from the rubble or offer first-aid to the injured. CBC | World News
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17 dead after Israeli strike hits school-turned-shelter in Gaza, hospital says
At least 17 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike on a school in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where people displaced by the fighting were sheltering, Nuseirat’s Al-Awda hospital said. CBC | World News
Read More »Dozens killed in Israeli strikes in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, Palestinian officials say
A total of 87 people were killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on Saturday on northern Gaza’s town of Beit Lahiya, with more than 40 wounded, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel says drone launched toward PM’s house; dozens reported killed in strikes on Gaza
The Israeli government said a drone was launched toward the prime minister’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as Iran’s supreme leader vowed that Hamas would continue its fight against Israel following the killing of the mastermind of last year’s Oct. 7 attack. CBC | World News
Read More »‘Northern Gaza is dying,’ doctor says, as Israel’s attacks intensify and the humanitarian crisis worsens
For more than two weeks, Israeli forces have been carrying out an offensive in northern Gaza — a move the United Nations human rights office said appears to be cutting off the region completely from the rest of the Gaza Strip. CBC | World News
Read More »Food, medicine running out as Israel presses offensive, say hospital officials in northern Gaza
Palestinian health officials called on Wednesday for a humanitarian corridor to three hospitals in northern Gaza that have come close to collapse as Israeli troops have cut off the area during almost two weeks of heavy fighting against Hamas. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli military kills at least 40 in Gaza, Palestinian officials say, as tanks deepen raid in the north
Israeli military strikes were reported to have killed at least 40 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in the north of the enclave on Tuesday, amid fierce battles with Hamas-led fighters. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 10 killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza food distribution centre, medics say
Palestinian medics said on Monday that at least 10 people were killed and 30 injured by Israeli tank shells that hit a food distribution centre in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, with casualties including women and children. CBC | World News
Read More »Death is everywhere in Gaza. That has prompted people of all ages to write their last words for loved ones
There is likely no one among the more than two million residents of Gaza who hasn’t been touched by death in the last year of Israel’s war with Hamas, leading some to confront their mortality and the looming presence of death by writing a form of last will and testament for their loved ones. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 28 killed in Israeli strike on school sheltering displaced people: Gaza Health Ministry
An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 people, including women and children, on Thursday, while three hospitals in the north were told to evacuate, putting patients’ lives at risk, medics say. CBC | World News
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