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.
World Aug 13 Israeli strikes on Gaza leave children without parents and parents without children “There is no one left except this baby.”…
World Aug 12 Israel widens evacuation orders in southern Gaza, Hamas pushes for cease-fire deal Sunday's evacuation orders apply to areas in Khan Younis including parts of an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.
World Aug 10 Israeli strike on school sheltering displaced Gazans kills at least 80, Palestinian officials say An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza early Saturday, killing at least 80 people and wounding nearly 50 others, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas.
World Aug 04 Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza and stabbing in Tel Aviv kills 2 amid efforts to avert wider war Tensions have soared following nearly 10 months of war in Gaza and the killing last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran. Iran and its allies have blamed Israel and threatened retaliation, raising fears of an even more…