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Two strikes by Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians, including four children, in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, medics said, as heavy rains flooded displaced residents’ tent encampments. CBC | World News
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Israeli strike kills at least 22 people at school shelter, Gaza officials say. IDF says it targeted Hamas
Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people, including 13 children, in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of militant group Hamas. CBC | World News
Read More »Toddlers wounded in Israeli airstrike hours after getting polio vaccine in Gaza, aunt says
Mere hours after getting their polio vaccinations in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip — as part of a children’s immunization campaign — sisters Hanan Al-Daqqi and Misk Al-Daqqi were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on their home minutes after a humanitarian pause ended, leaving them as amputees. CBC | World News
Read More »This 11-year-old does gymnastics atop the rubble of Gaza as the war rages on
Wassim Naqqar practises his backflips on gravel near the refugee camp set up west of Khan Younis in Gaza, hoping to one day be able to return to his sports club in the north, as the Israel-Hamas war approaches the one-year mark. CBC | World News
Read More »Gaza man’s ‘soul returned to life’ upon getting new prosthetic leg
When Rizk Tafesh lost his left leg in an Israeli airstrike on June 21, he thought he’d never be able to stand on both legs again. That changed on Tuesday, when he was fitted for a prosthetic leg. CBC | World News
Read More »Nearly 1 year into the war, some students in Gaza go back to school
The UNRWA has opened 36 makeshift classrooms in Khan Younis, to serve 7,600 kids while they shelter there. After almost a year of war, children and their parents are wary of the new school year, but students remain excited to learn. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel says ‘high probability’ its airstrike killed 3 hostages in Gaza last year
The Israeli military says there is a “high probability” that three hostages found dead months ago in Gaza were killed in an Israeli airstrike. CBC | World News
Read More »She was killed while rollerblading in Gaza. Her father hopes she’ll be the last child killed in the war
A photo of Tala Abu Ajwa wrapped in a white shroud with her pink rollerblades went viral soon after her death in Gaza City. Her father says she took her skates with her during every displacement the family had since the Israel-Hamas war began 11 months ago. CBC | World News
Read More »6 staffers in Gaza killed after airstrikes hit school, UN Palestinian refugee agency says
The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said six staffers were killed after two airstrikes hit a school in central Gaza on Wednesday, marking what it said was the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident. CBC | World News
Read More »Dozens killed and injured in Israeli attack on Gaza tent camp, Gaza agency says
Israeli missiles set ablaze a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, killing or wounding dozens of people, the enclave’s civil emergency service said on Tuesday, in what the Israeli military called a strike on a Hamas command centre. CBC | World News
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