Khan Yunis fighting displaces 180,000 Gazans in four days: UN

More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis in four days, the UN said yesterday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives’ bodies from the area.Recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Yunis area, more than nine months into the Israeli war on Gaza, have fuelled “new waves […]

Rockets launched at bases hosting US troops in Iraq and Syria

Several rockets were launched Thursday and yesterday against bases hosting troops from the US-led anti-militant coalition in Iraq and Syria, security officials and a war monitor said.Such attacks were frequent early in the war between Israel and Hamas Palestinian fighters in Gaza but since then have largely halted.“Four rockets fell in the vicinity” of Ain […]

With nowhere else to hide, Gazans shelter in former prison

After weeks of Israeli bombardment left them with nowhere else to go, hundreds of Palestinians have ended up in a former Gaza prison built to hold murderers and thieves.Yasmeen al-Dardasi said she and her family passed wounded people they were unable to help as they evacuated from a district in the southern city of Khan […]

WHO dispatches million Polio doses to Gaza

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today the dispatch of over one million doses of the polio vaccine to Gaza.The vaccines will be distributed over the coming weeks to prevent children from contracting the virus, following its detection in wastewater samples in the region.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that children under the age of […]

Morocco heatwave kills at least 21 people in 24 hours

A heatwave in Morocco has killed at least 21 people in a 24-hour period in the central city of Beni Mellal, the health ministry announced yesterday.The meteorology department said rising temperatures affected much of the country from Monday to Wednesday, reaching 48° Celsius (118° Fahrenheit) in some areas.In Beni Mellal, “the majority of deaths involved […]

Biden in talks with Netanyahu presses for Gaza ceasefire

US President Joe Biden pressed for a ceasefire to the 9-month-old war in Gaza in talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said gaps remain between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas for a ceasefire but ‘we are closer now than we've been before.”Both sides have […]