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GAZA STRIP Israel Area of satellite image EGYPT Rafah crossing Israeli incursionA Satellite View of Israel’s New Front in GazaNew satellite imagery taken after Israeli forces pushed into Rafah shows widespread damage to the southern Gaza city — including large areas of flattened structures — and clusters of Israeli armored vehicles. North Israeli tanks Razed structures Damage between Monday and Tuesday Rafah crossing Rafah crossing Israeli tanks EGYPT EGYPT New debris GAZA GAZA Damage from Monday Smoke rising Smoke rising Israeli tanks Damage before Monday Israeli tanks North Damage between Monday and Tuesday Razed structures Rafah crossing EGYPT Israeli tanks New debris GAZA Damage from Monday Smoke rising Israeli tanks Damage before Monday North Israeli tanks EGYPT Damage between Monday and Tuesday Razed structures Rafah crossing New debris Israeli tanks GAZA Smoke rising Israeli tanks Damage from before Monday Source: Satellite imagery from Planet LabsWhile Israel has described the operation that began earlier this week as limited, imagery captured on Tuesday morning by Planet Labs, a commercial satellite company, shows significant destruction in parts of the city. A network of damaged buildings reaches more than two miles into the territory near Rafah’s border crossing with Egypt. Monday Tuesday GAZA STRIP Area of image Source: Satellite imagery from Planet LabsIsrael says Rafah is Hamas’s last stronghold, and a critical gateway for arms shipments smuggled into Gaza from Egypt. Local health authorities warned of a “significant increase” in the death toll because of intense Israeli bombardment across Gaza, particularly in Rafah.

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Rafah CNN —An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza’s Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah. The Kuwait Hospital said the two infants were declared dead by medics shortly after they had arrived. Video obtained by CNN shows people in bloodied clothes being pulled out of civilian cars and rushed into the hospital. Pointing at the body bag, Um Rami told CNN they were her first and only grandchildren, calling them her “first joy”. A still from a video shows Palestinians being carried into Kuwait Hospital in Rafah, Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

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☆ Middle East Crisis Israeli Military Takes Responsibility for Strike That Killed 7 Aid Workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Ben Shpigel | Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

A car used by World Central Kitchen that was hit by a strike in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli military had been informed of the aid workers’ movements, the charity said. The World Central Kitchen logo could be seen on items inside the charred interiors of the northernmost and southernmost cars. Mr. Abutaha and other World Central Kitchen workers were thrilled to have the opportunity to unload the desperately needed food aid. The World Central Kitchen aid ship is headed back to Cyprus.

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☆ First ship carrying aid approaches Gaza Strip as Israel accused of stalling supplies
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Dalya Al Masri | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Video footage from the AFP news agency showed the ship visible off the shore of the Gaza Strip on Friday morning London time. Israel last year agreed to work with Cyprus in setting up an aid corridor across the sea between the European Union member and the Gaza Strip. Trucks carrying humanitarian aid and food supplies at the Kerem Shalom Crossing on the Israel-Gaza border. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said it continues to expand its efforts to enable the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Earlier this month, Refugees International released a report that alleges that Israel is obstructing the entry of life-saving supplies into the Gaza Strip.

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Lives Ended in Gaza Since the war started, more than 30,000 people have been killed during Israel’s bombardment and invasion. Hamas ruled Gaza and ran a covert military organization, the identity of its fighters unclear, even to other Gazans. She worked with people who had been wounded and displaced by Israeli attacks on Gaza as well as with first responders. She moved to Egypt after the 2014 Gaza war but returned a few months before the current war. He performed complicated operations on Gaza’s war wounded while running Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah until his retirement.

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☆ Red Crescent suspends coordinated medical missions with Israeli forces in Gaza due to safety concerns
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Tara John | Celine Alkhaldi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The suspension means teams will not work on humanitarian missions in areas where the Israeli military is present in Gaza, PRCS told CNN. Despite prior coordination with the Israeli military, PRCS said its staff and patients have repeatedly been mistreated by troops. Health care and aid workers have reported being detained and abused by Israeli forces in the strip. In the wake of the strike on February 5, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees decided to stop sending convoys to northern Gaza. A large-scale expansion of the flow of assistance to northern Gaza is urgently needed to avoid disaster,” the statement said.

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CNN —A small, curly-haired boy walks wearily through the chapel of St. Philip, in Gaza City, northern Gaza, as Israeli drones whir overhead. “There is nothing left here.”In recent weeks, the Israeli military ramped up aerial attacks on parts of central and northern Gaza. Several Palestinians told CNN there is no peace to be found among the rubble. Israeli attacks on Gaza have since killed at least 29,313 Palestinians and injured another 69,333 people, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. “We saw stuff that no one has ever seen, and no one can even imagine,” Salah Abu Issa, a doctor who volunteers at the chapel, told CNN.

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☆ Israeli forces fired on food convoy in Gaza, UN documents and satellite analysis reveals
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Katie Polglase | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“A convoy that had food on it, heading to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. In the wake of the strike on February 5, UNRWA decided to stop sending convoys to northern Gaza. The UN estimates that 300,000 people are still living in northern Gaza, with very little assistance. “Because of the level of desperation in Gaza, people would see an aid convoy, they would come to the aid convoy, take the stuff from the aid convoy,” Touma told CNN. “By the time we get the approval, the aid convoy is empty.”Other routes are impassable due to debris and craters, satellite imagery reviewed by CNN shows.

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☆ One of last doctors left in Gaza’s Nasser hospital says patients’ fate no longer in his control
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Kareem Khadder | Zeena Saifi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Nasser hospital had been the largest functioning hospital in the enclave before Israeli forces raided it last Thursday after days of intense bombardment. Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis, Gaza, on December 22, 2020. Dr. Hatem said he was one of the five doctors allowed to return and care for the patients. On Sunday and Monday, 32 patients in critical condition were evacuated from Nasser hospital, OCHA said. On Saturday, a Palestinian surgeon trapped inside Nasser hospital warned that all the ICU patients would die – a grim prospect that Dr. Hatem is anticipating.

Persons: Nasser, ” Dr, Hatem Raba, “, Ashraf Al, Qidra, Hatem, ”, Khan Younis, Abed Zagout, Dr, OCHA Organizations: CNN, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Health Ministry, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organization, WHO, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Red Crescent Society Locations: Gaza, Khan, Palestine, Rafah, Nasser, Khan Younis, Palestinian

☆ Israeli strikes deepen panic in Rafah as UN aid chief warns a ground offensive could result in ‘slaughter’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It remains unclear how or when a ground offensive would unfold, and that uncertainty is adding to anxiety among Palestinians in Rafah about where to go and what to do. Israeli military action in Rafah “has already led to and will result in further large scale killing, harm and destruction,” the government said in its request to the World Court. “We cannot afford an Israeli attack on Rafah… We cannot stand by and let this continue,” he said. Palestinians inspect damaged buildings after Israeli airstrikes on Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on February 12, 2024. They told us this area was safe… they told us Rafah was safe.

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☆ Palestinian women describe terror of 12-mile escape on foot from Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Abeer Salman | Mohammad Al Sawalhi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The upscale Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City has been devastated by Israel’s intense bombing campaign, launched in response to Hamas’ deadly attacks in Israel on October 7. “We heard their screams because they were beating them up.”Al-Ashkar said that Israeli forces had placed explosives in the buildings where people had been sheltering. They didn’t let us take anything,” al-Ashkar said, referring to their journey from the building in Gaza City. Al-Ashkar said that the walk had been longer than eight hours and said that Israeli forces were firing towards them as they walked. “All the streets are destroyed.”Al-Arbeel provided a very similar account of their interaction with Israeli forces.

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☆ Israel says two hostages rescued from Gaza in special operation, 128 days after their capture
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Israeli military said Monday it has rescued two hostages during a special operation conducted overnight in Rafah, in southern Gaza. The hostages are 60-year-old Fernando Simon Marman and 70-year-old Louis Har, who were both taken 128 days ago during Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel. The two are in good medical condition and have been transferred for Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, said the Israel Defense Forces. The joint operation was done with the Israeli Security Agency and Israel Police, it said. At least two mosques and around a dozen homes were targeted in the strikes, the Rafah municipality said on Monday.

Persons: Fernando Simon Marman, Louis Har, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: CNN, Sheba Medical, Tel HaShomer, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Security Agency, Israel Police, Palestine Red Crescent Society, ”, United Nations, Israeli Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Tel, Palestine, Egypt, Gaza’s

☆ Rafah airstrikes: Israeli attacks kill more than 100 in Rafah as international alarm mounts over anticipated ground offensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment over Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 12, 2024. In a statement Monday, Hamas condemned what it said was a “horrific massacre” by Israel against civilians in Rafah. ‘The dead are better than us’For the more than one million Palestinians in the southern city, the expected push into Rafah is causing alarm and fear. Rafah is the last major population center in Gaza not occupied by the Israeli military. Olfat Hamdan said she had witnessed dead bodies on the streets of Gaza City, noting that “nobody was able to drag them or move them.”“What have I seen?

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☆ Unimaginable devastation seen inside Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city once a safe haven for the displaced
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Khan Younis CNN —Scattered around a huge crater are the remnants of a life that is gone. Destroyed buildings and roads seen after the Israel Defense Forces withdrew from the areas in Khan Younis on February 02, 2024. PlanetLabs An aerial view of Khan Younis, Gaza, on January 19, 2024. PlanetLabs Aerial views of Khan Younis, Gaza, on November 30, 2023, and January 19, 2024. “I’ve (been) asked many questions about the price that Gaza, Khan Younis pays, the houses… yes, definitely, there is a price that has been paid,” Goldfuss said.

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☆ Five-year-old Palestinian girl found dead after being trapped in car with dead relatives
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Abeer Salman | Khader Al Za Anoun | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped in a car with her dead relatives after it came under Israeli fire in Gaza last month has been found dead. “The occupation deliberately targeted the Red Crescent crew despite obtaining prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location to rescue the girl Hind,” read the statement. Soon after the incident, CNN gave the Israeli military details about the incident last Friday, including coordinates provided by the Palestine Red Crescent Society. We’re in the car, the tank is right next to us,” Layan screams, amid intense gunfire in the background. Alone, terrified and trapped in the car with the bodies of her relatives around her, Hind made a desperate call for help.

Persons: Hind Rajab, Tal Al, Khader Al Za’anoun, PRCS, Hind, ”, Hamadeh, ” Layan, Layan, “, Wissam Hamada Organizations: CNN, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Israeli Army, Red Crescent, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Palestine, Gaza City, Palestinian

☆ Where is Hind? Calls for answers more than a week after rescuers go missing trying to save trapped 6-year-old
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Demands for answers are mounting over the fate of 6-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, who became trapped in a car with her dead relatives after it came under Israeli fire in Gaza more than a week ago. “We need to know what has happened to Hind and the PRCS ambulance team,” the PRCS said in their latest statement on X early Tuesday. “So many wonderful things can happen in a week, but for those waiting for news or for information a week is anguish. We’re in the car, the tank is right next to us,” Layan screams, amid intense gunfire in the background. Alone, terrified and trapped in the car with the bodies of her relatives around her, Hind made a desperate call for help.

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CNN —Israeli tanks fired live ammunition and smoke grenades after entering a hospital complex in southern Gaza where more than 8,000 people are sheltering, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Tuesday. The tanks were “firing live ammunition and smoke grenades,” the aid agency said in a series of messages between 10 a.m. Earlier, Israeli forces asked people to “evacuate the building at gunpoint,” Muhammad Abu Musabih, director of Ambulance and Emergency Services at the hospital, told CNN in an audio message. The PRCS also reported fire from Israeli tanks in the area earlier Tuesday, which it said killed one displaced woman and injured nine others. Israeli forces “demolished the outer wall of the building and fired … smoke bombs at the displaced people and the association’s staff,” the organization said.

Persons: Al Amal, Khan Younis, ” Muhammad Abu Musabih, “ Organizations: CNN, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Israel Defense Forces, Ambulance, Emergency Services, Al Locations: Gaza, Palestine, Israel, gunpoint, United Nations

☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Gaza crisis, UNRWA allegations
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Heather Chen | Andrew Raine | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Palestinians inspect a damaged house after an Israeli air strike on Rafah in southern Gaza on January 27. The Israel Defense Forces claimed UNRWA facilities were used for "terrorist purposes" in a statement on Saturday. Situation deteriorating at Khan Younis hospitals: Nasser Hospital, the main medical center in the southern Gaza city, is running out of its supply of blood, anesthesia and other medications, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health said Saturday. Where hostage talks stand: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu challenged Qatar on Saturday, saying, "They position themselves as intermediaries. The Houthis claim the attacks are in solidarity with the Palestinian people as a result of the war in Gaza — an argument the US has repeatedly rejected.

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Torrential rain in Gaza is making an already brutal existence even harder for the tens of thousands of people displaced and camping in the open air. Raging flames engulfed the walls of a UN shelter west of Khan Younis, after the facility was shelled on Wednesday. “Persistent attacks on civilian sites in Khan Younis are utterly unacceptable and must stop immediately.”Smoke rises after an attack on an UNRWA facility in Khan Younis on January 24, where more than 10,000 civilians were taking shelter. The ICRC warned the collapse of Nasser Medical Complex and the European Gaza Hospital could lead to "thousands of preventable deaths." The ICRC highlighted the deficiencies in the current healthcare system in Gaza where only two referral hospitals – Nasser Medical Complex and the European Gaza Hospital – providing advanced medical services are operational.

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Wreaths of smoke hung over the UN shelter, after a huge blaze broke out at the UNRWA Khan Younis Training Center, video obtained by CNN showed. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Israeli forces have surrounded the Nasser Medical Complex, cutting off crucial medical, food, and fuel supplies. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israeli forces are “surrounding” their headquarters and the Al-Amal Hospital and have enforced “restrictions on movement around both the building and the hospital”. Six people were killed in attacks on Khan Younis on Wednesday, PRCS added, three of which had been “targeted” at the entrance of their headquarters. “We were expecting to die at any minute.”Jamal al Rozzi, an aid worker displaced near Khan Younis, said he was forced to flee to Rafah on Wednesday after heavy bombardment in the area.

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☆ Medical facilities battered amid Israeli assault in Khan Younis, say Palestinian officials in Gaza, as death toll rises
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Celine Alkhaldi | Ibrahim Dahman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Medical facilities in Khan Younis in southern Gaza have been battered amid an Israeli assault in the area Monday, Palestinian health officials said, as the number of people killed in Israel’s siege on Gaza continues to rise. Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in the latest offensive in western Khan Younis, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza. Medical facilities including the Nasser Medical Complex, Al Amal Hospital and the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters are located in the area. The Nasser Medical Complex is receiving more serious injuries than it can accommodate, the health ministry said, adding that intensive care units are currently at capacity. Ahmed Naseem, a resident of Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis, told CNN Monday that “intense” shelling of the area started in the early hours of Monday.

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Video and witness accounts indicate there have been multiple strikes in the area of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Tuesday, with many casualties being taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. In one video, a blanket appears to be covering a dead body as people at the scene prepare to move the body. "Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only hospital in the central area and cannot accommodate such a large number of people, especially considering that massacres against our people are still ongoing," he said. "There is a major crisis, particularly because we do not have enough beds, especially in the overcrowded emergency room." Another video filmed in Deir al-Balah shows a Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance fleeing the scene of nearby artillery fire, according to the aid agency.

Persons: Khalil Al Daqran, Al Daqran Organizations: Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, CNN, Al, Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Red Crescent Society Locations: Deir, Gaza, Aqsa, Deir al, Al Aqsa, Deir Al, Egypt, Rafah

☆ Video shows man in military fatigues shooting mentally disabled Palestinian in West Bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Kareem Khadder | Celine Alkhaldi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A video reviewed by CNN Tuesday shows a man in military fatigues shooting and wounding a mentally disabled Palestinian near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. “Anybody who meets Tarek can tell immediately he has special needs,” Diaa Abu Abed said. The soldiers refused to listen.”The men had their rifles aimed at Tarek Abu Abed, and shouting can be heard. Diaa Abu Abed said that an onlooker called him, and he arrived on the scene soon after. Tarek Abu Abed suffered heavy bleeding and has undergone surgery on his leg, his brother said.

Persons: Tarek Abu Abed, ”, Diaa Abu Abed, “, Tarek, Diaa, Abu Abed Organizations: CNN, CNN Tuesday, West, Israel Defense Forces, Military Police, Palestine Red Crescent Society, West Bank, Palestinian Ministry of Health Locations: West Bank, Hebron, Palestinian, Sidet, Palestine, Qalqas, Israel, Jerusalem

☆ 'Immense relief' as UN deliveries to northern Gaza ramp up
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Emma Farge | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A dispute over aid flows to the north of the Israeli-besieged enclave temporarily held up a deal to free captives on Saturday. The deliveries were made to hospitals where rations were controlled, Elder said. "It seems callous and cold to think that we may be getting to the end of those deliveries and hostilities will continue, (that) the war, this war on children will continue." Even as the aid deliveries flowed north, Elder said he saw hundreds of Gazans heading in the other direction, fearing the renewal of Israeli bombardments if the four-day truce is not prolonged. I saw grandmothers carrying children, children pushing grandmothers in wheelchairs through the dust," he said.

Persons: gaunt, children's agency's James Elder, UNICEF's Elder, Elder, Emma Farge, Giles Elgood Organizations: Palestine Red Crescent Society, Hamas, UNICEF, GENEVA, UN, Cross, Thomson Locations: Palestine, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, Gaza City

[1/7] Hostages released as part of a deal between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas arrive by helicopter at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel, November 24, 2023. They were then taken to Israel for medical checks and reunions with relatives. The Israeli hostages freed included four children accompanied by four family members, and five elderly women. According to Israeli tallies, Hamas fighters killed 1,200 people in the October attack and took about 240 hostages. In at least three cases, before the prisoners were released, Israeli police raided their families' homes in Jerusalem, witnesses said.

Persons: Ronen, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Cross, Joe Biden, Israel's, Shelly Shem Tov, Omer Shem Tov, Omer, Roni Haviv, Munder, Sawsan Bkeer, Marah Bkeer, Bassam Masoud, James Mackenzie, Henriette Chacar, Jeff Mason, Idrees Ali, Grant McCool, Deepa Babington Organizations: Schneider Children's Medical, REUTERS, Palestinian, Hamas, International Committee, ICRC, U.S, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Israel's, Police, Thomson Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Petah Tikva, Gaza GAZA, JERUSALEM, Gaza, Rafah, Qatar, Filipino, Palestine, Jerusalem, Egypt

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