World Nov 26 Hamas releases 3rd group of hostages as fragile cease-fire deal with Israel holds The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third exchange under a four-day truce that the U.S. said it hoped…
World Nov 25 After hours-long delay, Hamas releases 17 more hostages for 39 Palestinians, Israel says Hamas released 13 Israelis and four foreigners late Saturday in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal, the Israeli military said, after the militant group initially delayed the exchange for several hours and claimed that Israel had violated…
World Nov 22 Israel-Hamas talks continuing, hostage release won’t take place before Friday, Israeli official says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security adviser says a planned hostage-for-prisoner swap with Hamas has been delayed until at least Friday.
World Nov 20 Israeli troops close in on another Gaza hospital, raising evacuation fears Israeli forces are battling militants around a hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, raising Palestinian fears of another painful standoff and evacuation of a medical facility.
World Nov 19 Premature babies evacuated from Shifa Hospital to southern Gaza, trauma patients remain Thirty-one “very sick” premature babies were safely transferred from Gaza's main hospital to another in the south on Sunday, and will be moved to Egypt on Monday, health officials said, as scores of other critically wounded patients remained stranded there…
World Nov 18 Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza’s north and south as most civilians flee Shifa Hospital An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 26 Palestinians, according to a doctor at the hospital where the bodies were taken.
World Nov 15 Israeli forces raid Gaza’s largest hospital, as fuel shortage grows more dire After encircling Shifa for days, Israel faced pressure to prove its claim that Hamas had turned the hospital into a command center, using the patients, staff and civilians sheltering there to provide cover for its militants.
World Nov 14 Palestinian authorities call for cease-fire to evacuate patients and newborns from Gaza’s largest hospital The Health Ministry said 40 patients, including three babies, have died since Shifa’s emergency generator ran out of fuel Saturday. Another 36 babies are at risk of dying because there is no power for incubators, according to the ministry.
World Nov 13 Battles around hospitals force Palestinians to flee, strand medics and vulnerable patients As Israeli troops encircled Gaza’s Shifa Hospital over the weekend, officials said thousands fled, while hundreds of patients and displaced people remained.
World Nov 12 People trapped in Gaza’s main hospital say they can’t leave as heavy fighting rages nearby Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza's largest hospital rejected Israel's claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out.