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25 Dec
Palestinians said they felt "no joy" this Christmas as Israel bombed Gaza on Monday, with no end in sight to the war that Hamas says has claimed more than 20,000 lives.
24 Dec
A Japanese-owned chemical tanker struck Saturday off the coast of India was targeted by a drone "fired from Iran," the Pentagon said, a sign of expanding risks to commercial shipping beyond the Red Sea.
24 Dec
Israel said its armed forces were increasingly focused on Hamas targets in south Gaza Sunday, as the United States again pressed its ally to do more to protect Palestinian civilians.
23 Dec
Israel pressed its Gaza offensive Saturday, with Hamas authorities reporting heavy shelling in several cities hours after world powers demanded more aid be allowed into the besieged Palestinian territory.
21 Dec
There are no longer any functional hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization said Thursday, describing "unbearable" scenes of largely abandoned patients begging for food and water. The UN health agency said it had led missions to two badly damaged hospitals, Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli, in the north of the Palestinian…
21 Dec
An Israeli strike killed the head of the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip said. Crossing director Bassem Ghaben and three other people were killed as Israeli aircraft targeted the infrastructure, the crossings authority and the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory said. The…
18 Dec
Israel kept up heavy bombing of Gaza on Monday as it faced accusations from a human rights group that it is deliberately starving Palestinians in its campaign sparked by the October 7 Hamas attacks.
18 Dec
The group Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Israeli government of intentionally starving civilians in Gaza as part of its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.
17 Dec
At this point, not too many literate citizens of the world can feign ignorance of what is going on between Israel and Hamas in the densely populated Gaza strip.
14 Dec
As the war between Israel and Palestine continues, there is apprehension that if not curtailed, it may snowball into a religious war. But the Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, who spoke to Bridget Chiedu Onochie, dismissed that, saying that the activities of Hamas violate Islamic tenets. He maintained that until Hamas surrenders, calls for ceasefire remain unacceptable.
13 Dec
Many Gazans already lived in poverty before the war. Now, even those with money have found the conflict to be a terrible equaliser as they hunt in vain for shelter and basic supplies. Since fleeing to the south of Gaza, Mohammed al-Mahdun, 36, has been looking for an apartment in Rafah near the Egyptian border…
13 Dec
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday it had exhausted its supply of children's vaccines, warning of "catastrophic health repercussions." The announcement came more than two months into the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, as international aid organisations have warned about the dire conditions in the crowded Palestinian territory. The ministry did not…

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