WFP warns of deeper cuts in Gaza aid due to donor fatigue
- 24-Jul-2026
GENEVA: The U.N. World Food Programme warned on Friday it would have to make deeper cuts to its aid in Gaza, where it supports 70% of the population, unless additional funding is secured. The comments come after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the global hunger monitor, said more than two-thirds of Gazans could face […]
In Gaza, a mother’s hunt for water lays bare a worsening health crisis
- 21-Jul-2026
In pre-dawn darkness, Ibtisam Al-Helou leaves her tent on Gaza’s seafront on a daily search for fresh water. The Mediterranean lies only a few steps away, but the water she needs to cook, drink and wash will mean a trek across Gaza City. Setting out before the heat rises to the scorching 33 degrees Celsius […]
‘All these rashes’: chickenpox surges in Gaza camps
- 21-Jul-2026
Gaza City: Eight-year-old Ruba Saadeh spends her days confined to the tent she shares with her family in Gaza, her body dotted with inflamed red blisters as chickenpox sweeps through overcrowded camps like the one they live in. Doctors and displaced families in Gaza say the highly contagious disease has surged in recent months as […]
Hamas says Khalil al-Hayya elected as group’s new chief
- 20-Jul-2026
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced Monday that it had elected Khalil al-Hayya, the group’s lead negotiator in indirect ceasefire talks with Israel, as the new head of its political bureau. “The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announces the election of brother mujahid Khalil al-Hayya as head of the movement’s political bureau, succeeding […]
Israeli strikes kill Palestinians attending Gaza funeral for earlier strike victim
- 18-Jul-2026
CAIRO: An Israeli airstrike killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded 20 attending a funeral in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Friday for a person killed by another Israeli strike on the area earlier in the day, Gaza health officials said. Those deaths, along with at least three Palestinians killed in separate Israeli […]
Gaza health officials say Israeli airstrike on police station kills 8
- 15-Jul-2026
Gaza City: Gaza’s civil defence agency and a hospital said an Israeli airstrike on a police station in northern Gaza killed eight people on Tuesday, including a woman officer. “Eight martyrs were transferred to Al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli airstrike on a police station” in the western part of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, […]
Children among several killed in Israeli attacks on tents sheltering displaced people in Gaza
- 09-Jul-2026
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s civil defence and health officials said Israeli attacks killed nine people in the Palestinian territory on Wednesday. A ceasefire is in place in the Israel-Hamas war, but it has not ended the violence in Gaza and progress towards a final deal to end the war has stalled. Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman […]
Fate of Gaza Strip eclipsed by Middle East war
- 04-Jul-2026
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: The Gaza war was the spark that touched off years of Middle East conflict culminating in the US-Israeli war with Iran, but as Washington and Tehran wrangle over terms for peace, the devastated territory’s fate seems largely out of mind. “Ever since the United States went to war with Iran, the […]
Body tasked with Gaza governance says Cyprus talks ‘highly productive’
- 02-Jul-2026
Jerusalem: The Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with administering post-war Gaza said Wednesday it concluded two days of “highly productive” talks in Cyprus on easing humanitarian suffering and advancing plans to rebuild the territory. The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) said on X that it held “a series of working meetings in Cyprus […]
Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes kill five
- 30-Jun-2026
Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes killed five people including a child in the Palestinian territory on Monday. A ceasefire is in place in the Israel-Hamas war, but it has not ended the violence and progress towards a final deal to end the war has stalled. “Three people were killed and several injured when an […]