Shafaqna English- Fierce gun battles rage in northern Gaza’s Jabalia and southern Rafah as Israeli military incursions intensify against Palestinians, and Wednesday’s commemoration of the Nakba comes as the Israeli war forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement. Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since 6 May, and
A member of the UN's safety team was killed in Rafah on their way to a hospital, the agency says.
Humanitarian officials are warning of increasingly dire conditions in Rafah as the Israeli army orders tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate the city in advance of further operations in the city. The situation is “absolutely catastrophic,” UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week” Sunday. Approximately 300,000 people have fled Rafah […]
Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania today, in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.S. campuses.
Aid warehouses in southern two-thirds of territory are now empty and resupply will be very difficult, according to officialsThe UN has run out of tents and food to distribute to almost 2 million people in Gaza, the majority displaced from their homes and dependent on aid to stave off looming famine.UN officials told the Guardian on Wednesday afternoon that their warehouses were now completely empty south of the river dividing the northern third of the Gaza from the south, with no likelihood of...
Spokesperson says confusion results from Gaza health ministry’s new way of classifying those not yet fully identifiedThe UN has denied that the estimated death toll of women and children in the war in Gaza has been revised downward, pointing towards a confusion between the total numbers of dead bodies recorded, and the number of those who have so far been fully identified.After the Gaza health ministry’s revised totals of those killed first appeared on the website of the UN’s office for the...
A recent drop in UN estimates of killed Palestinian women and children brought Israeli criticism.
The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
Israel's military has released footage it says shows gunmen at an Unrwa facility in southern Gaza.
UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data Since the start of the brutal Gaza conflict in the wake of Oct.7, a public 'info-war' has raged over the numbers of wartime casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. Something similar happened in the Syrian war, as well as in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war: either side's true casualties became a matter of tightly guarded internal secrets on the one hand, and an issue of public propaganda to...
Shafaqna English-“Over 150,000 pregnant women are facing health risks in Gaza” ,UNRWA said in a statement. The UN agency published a photo of a newborn girl in the war-torn enclave. “Habiba was born in a small tent. She’s 2 weeks old and less than 2 kg of weight,” it said.
The northern crossing point was opened on Sunday in a move aims to improve aid deliveries.