World Oct 06 Strike on a mosque kills at least 19 people as Israel bombards both Gaza and Lebanon An Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip early Sunday killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon in a widening war with Iran-allied militant groups across the region.
World Oct 02 Israel says 8 soldiers killed in battles with Hezbollah militants fighting in Lebanon The region braced for further escalation Wednesday as Israel vowed to retaliate for Iran's ballistic missile attack the day before.
World Sep 10 An Israeli strike on humanitarian tent camp for displaced Gazans killed at least 19 people First responders dug through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands.
World Sep 07 Israeli strikes kill more than a dozen people in Gaza as polio vaccinations continue Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers wrapped up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak.
World Sep 01 Mass polio vaccine drive begins in Gaza with aim of reaching about 640,000 children Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war.
World Aug 31 Children in Gaza begin receiving polio vaccines a day before planned large-scale rollout A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus began on Saturday, Gaza's Health Ministry said, as Palestinians in both the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel's ongoing military offensives.
World Aug 26 One of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals empties out amid fears it may be engulfed in fighting The Israeli military has not ordered its evacuation, but patients and people sheltering there fear it may be engulfed in fighting or targeted in a raid.
World Aug 24 Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza before high-level cease-fire negotiations in Cairo Multiple Israeli airstrikes killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza, health workers said Saturday, as officials including a Hamas delegation gathered for high-level cease-fire talks in neighboring Egypt.
World Aug 21 As more details emerge, key mediator Egypt expresses skepticism about Gaza cease-fire proposal The challenges around the so-called bridging proposal appear to undermine the optimism for an imminent agreement that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken carried into his latest Mideast visit this week.
World Aug 19 At least 22 people killed in cholera outbreak in Sudan, health minister says The cholera outbreak is the latest calamity for Sudan, where tensions between the military and a powerful paramilitary group exploded into open warfare last year. It has killed thousands of people and pushed many into starvation.