DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops opened fire Saturday toward crowds of Palestinians seeking food from distribution hubs run by a U.S.-, Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, killing at least 32 people, according to witnesses and hospital officials. The two incidents occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. In other…
(refiles to amend client identifier) GAZA (Reuters) -Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest ranking Catholic official in Jerusalem, entered Gaza on Friday to bring humanitarian aid and comfort to victims of Israel’s strike on the sole Catholic church of the Palestinian enclave. Three people died and several were injured in the strike on the Holy Family…
GAZA CITY (Reuters) -A strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic Church injured several people but caused no deaths, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Thursday. Earlier reports from doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said two women had been killed following the raid. “The Holy Family Church in Gaza has been struck by…
DEIR al-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it has struck over 100 targets in the embattled enclave in the past day. The strikes came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to fly to Washington for talks…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Seven Israeli soldiers were killed Tuesday in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis when their armored vehicle was struck by an explosive, an Israeli military official said Wednesday. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with military regulations, said six of the soldiers’ names had been cleared…
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, has killed 10 members of the same family, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday. Several others were injured, the report added. No further details about the casualties were initially available. The Israeli military said it was reviewing the report…
STORY: Six-year-old Palestinian Ghada Dabebech says she was playing at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City when an Israeli strike hit last week. They had to amputate her arm. Gaza health authorities said at least 27 people were killed, including women and children. “I was playing in the school, I was playing on the swing. I…
As Palestinian inmates released by Israel on Saturday stepped off the buses that took them to the Gaza Strip, some flashed a victory sign and swiftly set fire to sweatshirts they were made to wear in prison. Images broadcast on Israeli media before their release under a ceasefire deal with Hamas showed rows of Palestinian…
Israel has yet to allow Palestinians to return to their homes in northern Gaza on foot through the so-called Netzarim corridor bisecting the territory, which extends from the Wadi Gaza river valley to Gaza City. It put the move on hold until Hamas freed a hostage who Israel said was supposed to have been released…