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At least four patients in intensive care died because their oxygen supply was cut off when Israeli troops stormed Gaza’s main hospital, according to the doctors.
Israeli special forces have stormed the last major hospital in southern Gaza, with the military saying it is a limited operation to seeking the remains of hostages taken by Hamas.
The raid came a day after the army sought to evacuate thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
The southern city has been the main target of Israel's offensive against Hamas in recent weeks. The military said it had "credible intelligence" that Hamas had held hostages at the hospital and that the remains of hostages might still be inside.
This comes after the UN warned that an Israeli ground invasion into Rafah could lead to slaughter as more tha one million Palestinians shelter there.
UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned offensive could leave an “already fragile humanitarian operation at death’s door.”
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Key points Four patients dead as Israeli troops storm hospital in Gaza, doctors say Israeli special forces inside Khan Younis hospital Israel launches 'extensive' strikes in Lebanon Rafah invasion could ‘lead to slaughter’, UN warns
Show latest update 1 day ago Israel is urging the top UN court to reject a new South African request on Gaza provisional orders
Israel on Thursday urged the United Nations’ highest court to reject an urgent South African request to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah breach provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide.
South Africa asked the International Court of Justice to decide whether Israel’s strikes on Rafah, and its intention to launch a ground offensive on the city where 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering, breaches both the U.N. Genocide Convention and preliminary orders handed down by the court last month in a case accusing Israel of genocide.
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Israel is urging the top UN court to reject a new South African request on Gaza provisional orders Israel is urging the United Nations’ highest court to reject an urgent South African request to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah breach provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 07:00
1 day ago US investigators visit homes of two Palestinian-American teens killed in the West Bank
The families of two Palestinian-American teenagers killed in separate but eerily similar incidents in the West Bank say investigators from the American Embassy have visited their homes to look into the shootings.
The launch of American probes into the killings of Mohammad Khdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar reflects what appears to be a lack of confidence in the Israeli justice system to properly investigate the cases. Rights groups have long said that Israeli investigations into killings of Palestinians rarely lead to prosecutions, and the State Department has previously called for an “expeditious and thorough” Israeli investigation into Abdel Jabbar’s killing.
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US investigators visit homes of two Palestinian-American teens killed in the West Bank The American embassy is investigating two shootings of Palestinian-American teenagers in the West Bank, the latest of which occurred Saturday
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 06:00
1 day ago ICYMI: Biden warns Israel not to attack Rafah without plan to protect civilians
In a phone call Thursday, President Joe Biden again cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against moving forward with a military operation in Rafah without a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians.
Early the next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to reject “international dictates” on a long-term resolution of Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians.
Live updates | Biden warns Israel not to attack Rafah without plan to protect civilians In a phone call Thursday, President Joe Biden again cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against moving forward with a military operation in Rafah without a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 05:00
1 day ago Southern Israel was filled with blood and death. Brilliant red wildflowers now bloom among the ashes
Each year as spring approaches, wildflowers erupt across Israel, a splash of color before the punishing Middle Eastern summer. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to be covered in red carpets.
Along the Gaza border, the flowers, which look like poppies, have been crowned with their own festival, Darom Adom, or Scarlet South. It’s been a major economic engine and source of local pride for nearly two decades, bringing hundreds of thousands to a little-visited and conflict-scarred part of Israel.
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Southern Israel was filled with blood and death. Brilliant red wildflowers now bloom among the ashes As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 04:00
1 day ago ICYMI: Patients die as oxygen runs out in Gaza hospital seized by Israeli forces, health officials say
The storming by Israeli troops of southern Gaza‘s main hospital brought chaos to hundreds of staff and patients inside, as health officials said four people in intensive care died after their oxygen cut off.
Troops were searching the facility, where the military said it believes the remains of hostages abducted by Hamas might be located.
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Patients die as oxygen runs out in Gaza hospital seized by Israeli, officials say Hospital staff claim Israeli fire killed a patient and wounded six others inside the complex
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 03:00
1 day ago The horrors of 7 October did not happen in a vacuum – so why has it become unsayable?
Real and vile antisemitism is rife, and there are bigots who will believe any nutjob conspiracy theory about Israel. Condemn them, suspend them, marginalise them, writes Alan Rusbridger.
But can’t we also acknowledge that the current Israeli government is one which includes criminals, extremists and despots who have no interest in a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine question?
Read Alan’s piece in full here:
October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum – so why has it become unsayable? Real and vile antisemitism is rife, and there are bigots who will believe any nutjob conspiracy theory about Israel. Condemn them, suspend them, marginalise them, writes Alan Rusbridger. But can’t we also acknowledge that the current Israeli government is one which includes criminals, extremists and despots who have no interest in a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine question?
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 02:00
1 day ago UNHCR says Spillover of refugees from Gaza to Egypt would be a ‘disaster’
The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday that a spillover of refugees from Gaza’s Rafah into Egypt’s Sinai would be a disaster.
“It would be a disaster for the Palestinians ... a disaster for Egypt and a disaster for the future of peace,” Filippo Grandi told Reuters.
When asked whether Egyptian authorities had contacted the UNHCR about possible contingency plans he said: “The Egyptians said that people should be assisted inside Gaza and we are working on that.”
Filippo Grandi
(AP)
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 01:00
1 day ago A small business in war-time Gaza sews padded cloth diapers, creating jobs and helping weary parents
Their scissors move quickly, shearing pieces of white cloth to be stitched together with cotton pads and taken to market in battered cardboard boxes.
Before the day is done, the Palestinian seamstresses will have sewn 500 diapers and distributed them to war-weary parents in Gaza for about $4 per package of eight, half of what mass-produced disposable diapers cost in the besieged enclave.
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A small business in war-time Gaza sews padded cloth diapers, creating jobs and helping weary parents A small sewing workshop making cloth diapers with cotton padding in Gaza's crowded city of Rafah is helping desperate parents with babies afford a basic necessity
Matt Mathers 17 February 2024 00:00
1 day ago ICYMI: Israel should ‘stop and think very seriously’ before further action in Rafah, says David Cameron
Israel should ‘think very seriously’ before Rafah action, says David Cameron David Cameron has said that Israel should “stop and think very seriously” before taking further action in the city of Rafah The British Foreign Secretary was speaking to reporters in East Kilbride, Scotland on Monday (11 February). The comments came after airstrikes in southern Gaza killed over 100 Palestinians, according to local health officials. The city is the last refuge of around one million displaced civilians. “We are very concerned about the situation and we want Israel to stop and think very seriously before it takes any further action. But above all, what we want is an immediate pause in the fighting and we want that pause to lead to a ceasefire,” Lord Cameron said.
Matt Mathers 16 February 2024 23:00
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1 day ago ICYMI: UN chief says ‘illusion’ to think Palestinians could evacuate to safe place
UN aid chief Martin Griffiths on Thursday said it was an “illusion” to think people in Gaza could evacuate to a safe place and warned of the possibility of Palestinians spilling into Egypt if Israel launches a military operation in Rafah.
He called this scenario “a sort of Egyptian nightmare”.
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Matt Mathers 16 February 2024 22:00
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Gaza patients dead as ‘oxygen cut off’ during Israel raid on hospital
People rest next to damaged buildings, as Palestinian arrive in Rafah after they were evacuated from Nasser hospital
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