At least five Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a building at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, an official from the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency has told the BBC. Eyewitnesses said that a single missile, fired from a warplane that briefly flew over the area, struck a building housing the hospital’s surgical
Activists have tried to delivered supplies to Palestinians whose homes in the occupied West Bank have been besieged for days by Israeli settlers. The group left water and food near one of the houses in Qusra where two Palestinian families have been trapped since Sunday, with their power and water supplies cut off. Two of
In Gaza, the recovery work was carried out by the Civil Defence, which operates under the Hamas-run interior ministry. Its efforts have been supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). “We provide material support – literally the gloves, shovels, protective equipment and body bags they use,” said Patrick Griffiths, spokesperson for the
Israeli settlers have set fire to two mosques as well as cars and farmland in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say, as tensions in the territory continue to rise. The latest attacks come two days after a clash between settlers and Palestinians near the village of Tal, which left four Palestinians and two Israelis
At least four Palestinians and two Israelis have been killed in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, the deadliest incident there in months. There are conflicting accounts about the sequence of events in the northern town of Tal. Palestinian sources told the BBC that residents confronted Jewish settlers who were attacking them when Israeli
