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☆ WHO voices concern over spread of disease in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"We are extremely concerned about the spread of disease when the winter season arrives," said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. WHO has previously warned of "worrying trends" in the spread of disease in Gaza, where bombardments and a ground offensive have disrupted the health system, access to clean water and caused people to crowd into shelters. The start of the rainy season and the possibility of flooding has also increased fears that the densely populated enclave's sewage system will be overwhelmed and disease will spread. The absence of fuel already has forced the shutdown of sewage pumping stations and desalination plants, increasing the risk of water contamination and the outbreak of disease. "Overcrowding is leading to the spread of disease, including acute respiratory illness and diarrhea, raising environmental and health concerns," OCHA warned.

Persons: Abu Mustafa, Richard Peeperkorn, OCHA, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Madeline Chambers, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, Rights, World Health Organization, WHO, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, UNRWA, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian

☆ Cocaine still Colombia drug gangs' top export despite fentanyl's ascendancy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Luis Jaime Acosta | Thomson Reuters | Luis Jaime Has Worked At Reuters For More Than Years. While He Chiefly Covers Colombia'S Armed Conflict | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Rocketing consumption of synthetic drug fentanyl in the U.S. has led some - including Colombia's President Gustavo Petro - to forecast declines in cocaine production in the Andean country, the world's leading producer. Coca production is taking place in new areas and fresh trafficking routes are opening up, Zapata said. Ecuador's incoming president, Daniel Noboa, who takes office this month, has promised to confront rising crime in the country, where violence linked to drug trafficking has increased sharply. Colombia hopes to destroy 200 square kilometers of coca crops by the end of the year and seize a record 834 tons of cocaine. "Drug trafficking is changing.

Persons: Luisa Gonzalez, Gustavo Petro, We're, Nicolas Zapata, Petro, Zapata, Daniel Noboa, we've, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Colombian, United Nations Office, Drugs, Thomson Locations: Putumayo, Colombia, Rights BOGOTA, U.S, Europe, Ecuador

☆ Charts show a stark difference in the human cost of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts over the years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Joanna Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

An aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City on Oct. 11, 2023. Israel also suffered tremendous losses, with Oct. 7 described as "the deadliest day for Jews since the holocaust." There have been five major military conflicts between Israel and Hamas since the Jewish state unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. "Typically speaking, year on and year on, the number of Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli forces exceeds Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians, several times over," H.A. The data collated by CNBC shows that more than 18,600 Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank have been killed in conflicts with Israel since 2008.

Persons: Yahya Hassouna, that's, Hellyer, Paul Scham, CNBC it's, Daniel Byman, Scham, Israel doesn't Organizations: AFP, Getty, Hamas, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, West Bank, UN, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace, CNBC, United Nations, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Health Ministry, Royal United Services Institute for Defence, Security, University of Maryland, Middle East Institute, Washington , D.C, IDF, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Hellyer Carnegie Endowment Locations: Gaza City, Gaza, Israel, OCHA, Palestinian, Jihad, Hamas, Washington ,, Egypt

☆ Three babies die as Israel besieges Gaza’s largest hospital, health officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Jomana Karadsheh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In a separate statement, the Israeli army told CNN, it would coordinate with anyone who wants to leave safely. Ismail Zanoun/AFP/Getty ImagesStaff and patients trappedAl-Bursh said Al-Shifa Hospital was under “complete siege” with staff and patients unable to evacuate. He told CNN there were more than 100 bodies wrapped in blankets on the ground within the hospital complex. Freelance journalist Mustafa Sarsour, who is based at the hospital, told CNN the conditions inside are terrible. Humanitarian agencies have been sounding the alarm about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital.

Persons: Dr, Munir Al, Bursh, Ashraf al, Qidra, ”, Daniel Hagari, Cross, Robert Mardini, ” Mardini, “, Ismail Zanoun, Al, Mustafa Sarsour, ” Sarsour, Angelita Caredda, Martin Griffiths, Griffiths Organizations: CNN, of Health, Shifa, Al, Medical, Hamas, International Committee, X . Staff, Shifa Hospital, Health Ministry, Getty Images Staff, Freelance, Ahli Hospital, Norwegian Refugee, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Gaza’s, Gaza, Israel, ”, AFP, Al, Ahli, Norwegian

☆ Opinion | Violence by West Bank Settlers Cannot Be Ignored
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Serge Schmemann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“I continue to be alarmed about extremist settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank; pouring gasoline on fire is what it’s like,” President Biden recently said. Despite the national preoccupation with Gaza over the past month — or perhaps because of it — the zealots have kept at it. Mr. Smotrich has called for widening Palestinian no-go areas around Israeli settlements, including a ban on Palestinians harvesting olives near the settlements. In that same time, three Israeli soldiers were killed in attacks by Palestinians. Mr. Saleh was shot dead, the seventh Palestinian to be killed by settlers since Oct. 7.

Persons: Biden, “, Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Smotrich, Ben, Bilal Mohammad Saleh, Saleh Organizations: West Bank, ”, Hamas, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, The Times Locations: Israel, West Bank, Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Palestinian

☆ Prince William is trying to reinvent the royal role
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Max Foster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: This is a version of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. London CNN —There was a moment that fell under the radar while the Prince of Wales was in Singapore this week. There, Prince William and a star-studded cast announced this year’s cohort of winner, but earlier in the week, the heir to the throne achieved his own, quieter, victory. One of the questions we’re often asked is about the real-world return from all the speeches, walkabouts and waving the royal family does. Having this kind of quantifiable impact is at the core of William’s vision for his time as Prince of Wales.

Persons: Prince, Wales, Tuesday’s glitzy, Prince William, William, “, we’re, ” William, Prince of Wales, ”, he’s, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles, King Organizations: CNN’s Royal, London CNN, Wildlife, Royal Foundation, The, United Nations Office, Drugs, Interpol, United for Wildlife Global Locations: London, Singapore, Asia, The United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa

☆ Journalists in Gaza Become Part of the Story They Feel Compelled to Tell
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journalists in Gaza Become Part of the Story They Feel Compelled to TellPalestinian journalists carried mock coffins in a symbolic funeral procession toward a United Nations office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday. (Nasser Nasser/Associated Press)The number of journalists killed while reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas has exceeded the highest monthly death toll previously recorded among those covering conflict, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Some 39 reporters, photographers and videographers and other media workers, have died during the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and the Palestinian militant group—the vast majority of whom were killed by airstrikes in Gaza. The number is more than half the death toll for those killed in conflicts worldwide last year, according to CPJ.

Persons: Nasser Nasser Organizations: United, West Bank, Associated Press, Hamas, Protect Journalists, Palestinian Locations: Gaza, United Nations, Ramallah, Israel

☆ UN report warns war has already set Gaza and West Bank economy back more than a decade
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | David Shortell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Israel’s war on Hamas could set the Palestinian economy in Gaza and the West Bank back decades, according to a new analysis by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Key economic measurements, including employment rates and GDP, have all plunged across Gaza and the West Bank, according to the UNDP analysis. The past month of conflict has erased 61 percent of employment in Gaza and 24 percent of employment in the West Bank, the report warns. After one month of fighting, the number of people living in poverty in Gaza and the West Bank increased by nearly 20 percent, the UNDP report says. If the fighting were to continue through a second month, the Palestinian economy would be set back 19 years’ worth of development, Al Dardari said.

Persons: CNN —, Abdallah Al Dardari, Al Dardari, “ I’ve, ”, Ashraf Amra, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: CNN, West Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Palestinian Ministry of Health, UNDP, Bureau, Arab, United Nations Relief, Works Agency, Getty, World Bank, Human Rights Watch, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, ”, Israeli Locations: Gaza, Israel, Ramallah, Palestinian, Deir al Balah, Anadolu, Egypt, Palestine

☆ Maps: Israeli forces encircle Gaza City, push civilians south
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Aditi Bhandari | Prasanta Kumar Dutta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A map of northern Gaza shows the extent of Israeli forces’s invasion of the Gaza Strip. South of Gaza City, Israeli forces have cut a line from Gaza’s eastern border to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, effectively cutting off northern Gaza and encircling Gaza City. Israel’s armed forces have encircled Gaza City — the largest city in the Gaza Strip — in their assault on Hamas, the military said. Maps distributed by the IDF have directed Gazans to different areas of the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Pamphlets dropped in Gaza on Oct. 13 directed people to evacuate south of the Wadi Gaza, a coastal wetland in central Gaza.

Persons: Jonathan Conricus, ” Conricus, we'll, ”, Gazans, Khan Younis, Deir Organizations: AEI, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Israel Defense Forces, IDF Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Israel, Balah governorate, Maghazi, Deir

☆ Gaza: More than 10,000 people killed in enclave, Hamas-controlled health ministry says, as condemnation of Israeli campaign grows
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive nearly a month ago, the Hamas-controlled health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said Monday. Ashraf Al Qudra, spokesperson for the ministry, said 10,022 Palestinians in the enclave had been killed by Israeli strikes, including 4,104 children, 2,641 women and 611 elderly people. CNN cannot independently verify the numbers released by the ministry in Gaza, which is sealed off by Israel and mostly sealed by Egypt. The international charity Save the Children said last month that the number of children reported killed in the enclave during Israel’s campaign had surpassed the annual number of children killed in armed conflict globally in each of the past four years. Israel is, however, yet to show any signs of backing down, saying its operations in Gaza are only expanding.

Persons: Israel, Ashraf Al Qudra, “, Joe Biden Organizations: CNN, United Nations Human Rights, US, UN, United, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Gaza, Israel, Hamas, Egypt, United States, Gaza . Washington, Iran

☆ 32 killed as fire rips through drug rehabilitation center in Iran
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —A massive fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran has killed at least 32 people and injured 16, Iranian media reported on Friday. Initial investigation showed that a heater in the opium rehab camp in Langarud in the Caspian Sea province of Gilan was the cause of the fire that spread to the rest of the centre, the province’s deputy governor was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.”The manager and other possible culprits have been arrested so that the cause of the incident is more accurately determined,” the Tasnim news site said. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Iran has one of the severest addiction problems in the world. It lies on the main trafficking route for poppy, the source of opium and heroin, from Afghanistan to Western Europe.

Organizations: CNN, United Nations Office, Drugs Locations: Iran, Langarud, Sea, Gilan, Fars, Afghanistan, Western Europe

The Jabalia refugee camp is highlighted and the site of an airstrike within the camp shown. People and medics rush to the scene of an Israeli attack that hit the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza on Wednesday, Nov. 1. People and medics rushed to the scene of an Israeli attack that hit the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza on Wednesday, Nov. 1. The second airstrike hit on Wednesday Nov. 1 in the Falouja neighbourhood of Jabalia refugee camp, approximately half a mile from the site of Tuesday’s explosion. A third Israeli airstrike hit the Jabalia refugee camp on November 2, Reuters reported.

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☆ Surgery without drugs, patients piling up: Gaza’s hospitals overwhelmed as power run out
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —In Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, a dazed and drowsy woman sits on the floor with a bleeding leg. “The situation in hospitals is miserable… (it) makes you weep,” Rajaa Musleh, a 50-year-old woman sheltering at Al-Shifa, told CNN on Thursday. ‘Overloaded’Hospital staff are exhausted, Dr. Alaa Shitali, a medical officer at Al-Shifa’s emergency department, told CNN Tuesday. “And the doctors are left to treat them with limited pain control, (as they are) running out of anesthetic drugs.” she told CNN. Hospitals in the besieged and heavily battered enclave are “hanging by a thread,” the UN said Monday, adding that around 10 hospitals in Gaza are still operational.

Persons: Rajaa, ”, Musleh, Mustafa Hassona, Alaa, “, Shitali, Tanya Haj, Hassan, Gaza’s, Israel, Sobhi Skaik, Skaik, Khan, Ahmad Hasaballah, Atef Al Kahlout, Ali Jadallah, Bashar Morad, Morad, ” Morad, ” Musleh Organizations: CNN, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, UN’s, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Getty, Palestinian Ministry of Health, ’ Hospital, Al, of Health, Nasser Medical Hospital, Israel Defense Forces, Care International, Quds Hospital, The, Care, UN, Palestinian, Crescent, Palestinian Red Crescent Society Locations: Al, Gaza, Anadolu, Ramallah, Gaza City, Israel, Turkish, Palestinian, Hamas, Khan Younis, GAZA, Quds, Tel al, The Geneva

☆ Settler violence has been forcing Palestinians out of the West Bank and turning the area into a 'Wild West,' rights group says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has been soaring, the UN and rights groups said. Attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have been pushing Palestinians out of their homes, the groups said. Violence has turned the West Bank into the "Wild West," a non-profit told The Washington Post. Additionally, nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in the West Bank amid "intensified settler violence" and increased movement restrictions since the outbreak of the war, according to the UN office. AdvertisementAdvertisementLast week, US President Joe Biden condemned the violence, saying he was "alarmed about extremist settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank," and described the issue as "pouring gasoline on fire."

Persons: —, Dror Sadot, Tariq Mustafa, Mustafa, OCHA, Joe Biden, Biden Organizations: West Bank, UN, Washington Post, Service, United Nations, Washington, Hamas, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Bank Locations: Israel, Jerusalem, Gaza, Palestinian, West Bank, Wadi, Ramallah, Jordan, Taybeh

A screengrab taken from video shows ruins of the Saqallah family compound after the blast on October 19. A view of the Saqallah family compound before the strike. From left, Doctors Omar Saqallah, Saed Saqallah and Ameed Saqallah were among the 42 relatives killed on October 19. They’re just ordinary people: doctors and grandmothers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts and children,” Abu Shaban said. Until the killing stops, Abu Shaban says his family still reels: “I’m still in this nightmare.

Persons: Tariq Hamouda, Manal, it’s, they’re, Hamouda, Tariq Hamouda “, ” Hamouda, ”, Tariq Hamouda Israel, Eyad Abu Shaban, “, “ It’s, ” Abu Shaban, Essam Abu Shaban, Layla Saqallah, Ahmed, Abu Shaban, –, Omar Saqallah, Saed, Ameed Saqallah, Tariq, – Saed, Omar, Ameed, Khorsheed, Sen, Amy Klobuchar’s, “ We’ve, haven’t Organizations: CNN, Palestinian, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Ministry of Health, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Boca, Community, Islamic Locations: Gaza, Maple Grove , Minnesota, Israel, Sheikh Ejleen, Gaza City, Hamouda, Israeli, Minnesota, Ramallah, South Florida, Tel El Hawa, Boca Raton, Grove, Brooklyn, Amy Klobuchar’s Minnesota

☆ Why is Israel attacking south Gaza after telling people to go there?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A woman stands near a bullet-riddled wall in Zahajra, near the border with Israel, in southern Lebanon October 10, 2023. Since telling Gazans to head south, the Israeli military (IDF) has continued to pound targets across the area, killing an unknown number of civilians. That's why we are asking civilians to go south of the Gaza River." Israel has massed troops on the border with Gaza and is widely expected to launch a land invasion. On Oct. 18, the military urged residents of Gaza to evacuate to what it called a humanitarian zone in Al Mawasi, on the coast of southern Gaza.

Persons: Mohamed Azakir, Gazans, Khan Younis, Jonathan Conricus, Israel, Hamas's, Antonio Guterres, Crispian Balmer, James Mackenzie, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, Residents, IDF, Military, Hamas, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Thomson Locations: Zahajra, Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Gaza City, Khan, Israeli, Al Mawasi, Gaza's, Egypt

Arab citizens and permanent residents in Israel make up just over 20% of the country’s population. His ancestors were evacuated from Iqrit, a village north of Haifa, by Israeli forces during the 1948 war. Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some opposition leaders joined an emergency war cabinet to manage the war. “Some people call it Turkish coffee, some call it Jerusalem coffee or Palestinian coffee or Israeli coffee … when I am in the mood, I call it Palestinian coffee,” he said, watching a spoonful of sugar bubble up from the bottom of the pot. “When I am not in the mood, I call it Jerusalem coffee … to avoid the politics”

Persons: Aya Najame, Najame, “, ” Najame, it’s, ” Ashraf Ashkar, ” Ashkar, Ashkar, Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, B’Tselem, Smotrich, we’re, ”, Diane Buttu, ’ ”, Buttu, ” Naim Khoury, Ivana Kottasova, CNN Naim Khoury, ” Khoury, ’ Abu Nader, Nader, –, Abu Nader, ” Buttu, there’s Organizations: Jerusalem CNN, West Bank, CNN, “, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority, Israeli Information Center, Human Rights, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Haifa, Jerusalem, Arab, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, “ Haifa, Nisnas, Iqrit, Territories, Palestinian, Jerusalem’s Old City, Old City, ”, cezve

☆ As internet connectivity plummets in Gaza, ordinary Palestinians struggle to compete with Israel's narrative of the war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Internet connectivity in Gaza is plummeting. AdvertisementAdvertisementGaza's already flimsy internet connectivity has been severely impacted by Israel's strikes, according to several outage-detection models. Last Friday, NetBlocks, a watchdog organization that monitors the governance of the internet, noted a steep decline in Gaza's internet connectivity. Fatafta said ordinary Palestinians were able to use social media to challenge some of the messaging coming from the Israel side. But, now, he fears that the fall in internet connectivity is creating a blindspot.

Persons: —, David, Gaza's influencers, Doug Madory, Amanda Meng, Meng, OCHA, Paltel, It's, Liz Throssell, Throssell, Fatafta, Jalal Abukhater, Abukhater, 7amleh, Sims Organizations: Service, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Health Ministry, Georgia Tech, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Palestinian Telecommunications Company, IDF, UN, United Nations Human Rights, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CNN, Hamas, Al, Arab Center for Social Media Advancement, Gaza Locations: Gaza, MENA, Israel, Ahli, Palestinian

☆ A UN group said its school shelter was bombed during Israeli airstrikes, even after it gave everyone the facility's coordinates
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A United Nations relief group in the Gaza Strip said one of its refugee school shelters was bombed. The bombing occurred during Israeli airstrikes, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said. At least six people were killed after a United Nations refugee school was bombed during Israeli airstrikes, said the relief agency running the shelter. "The school was hit during Israeli forces airstrikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip," Lazzarini said. At least 2,670 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since October 7, per the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Persons: Philippe Lazzarini, —, Lazzarini, Khan Yunis, Ahmad Hasaballah, Israel Organizations: UNRWA, Service, United Nations, United Nations Relief, Works Agency, Getty, Israel Defense Forces, World Health Organization, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Palestinian Health Ministry, IDF Locations: Nations, Gaza, Palestine, Amman, Jordan, Khan, Khan Yunis, Gaza City, Israel, Hamas

☆ Photos show daily operations aboard USS Gerald R. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean, where it's in place to support Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Elias Chavez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The USS Gerald R. Ford entered the eastern Mediterranean last week. The carrier strike group is there in support of Israel. The US announced on October 8 that it would be sending its most advanced aircraft carrier — USS Gerald R. Ford — and its attached strike group toward Israel. The decision to send the carrier strike group came after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7 and killed 1,400 people. Here's a look onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford while it's stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Persons: Gerald R, Ford, —, Ford — Organizations: Service, US, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, US Central Command Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ We toured the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, which can house 75 aircraft (but doesn't have urinals)
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Daniel Brown | Elias Chavez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The USS Gerald R. Ford is the world's largest aircraft carrier. The US has sent the carrier toward Israel to deter any potential escalation in the ongoing conflict. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe USS Gerald R. Ford is the US Navy's newest and largest aircraft carrier — in fact, it's the world's largest. The USS Gerald R. Ford launched on its first deployment in 2023 to the Mediterranean. As of October 10, 2023, the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike force have arrived in the east Mediterranean Sea to "deter any actor seeking to escalate the situation or widen this war," according to a statement from the US Central Command.

Persons: Gerald R, Ford, — Organizations: Ford, US, Service, Nimitz, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, US Central Command Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Gaza, Norfolk

☆ Hamas says Israeli forces bombed a hospital and killed hundreds of people. The UN has documented dozens of other attacks on health care in Gaza.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that Israeli forces attacked a hospital. The UN separately has documented dozens of Israeli attacks on health care in Gaza. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israeli forces attacked a hospital in Gaza City, killing hundreds of people, but Israel's military denied involvement. "The occupation targets the Gaza Baptist Hospital, which shelters displaced people from the ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip," the health ministry said on Facebook. According to the Associated Press, the ministry said at least 500 people had been killed in the hospital bombing.

Persons: —, Getty, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: Hamas, AP, UN, Service, Facebook, Palestinian Health Ministry, Gaza Baptist Hospital, Associated Press, Israel Defense Forces, World Health Organization, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, WHO Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Ahli, Israel, Palestinian, al

☆ Israel Gaza war: Growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Israel forms war cabinet and prepares hospitals as troops mass
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Nada Bashir Kareem El Damanhoury Ali Younes Mohammed Tawfeeq Rhea Mogul | Nada Bashir | Kareem El Damanhoury | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Gaza’s only power station stopped working on Wednesday after running out of fuel, the head of the Gaza power authority Galal Ismail told CNN. So death was a blessing,” he told CNN, his voice broken, tears streaming down his tired, ashen face. Izzat al-Risheq, a senior Hamas official, told CNN on Wednesday that it’s too early to exchange Israeli hostages. “We are extremely worried that what is happening now is totally unprecedented,” Najla Shawa, an Oxfam worker in Gaza, told CNN. “I was sleeping, and then suddenly everything started falling on us,” one little girl waiting in a hospital with blood all over her face, told CNN.

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☆ An American physician's assistant on vacation in Israel during Hamas attacks decided to stay and help in a local hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Physician's assistant Michele Freund was on vacation in Israel when Hamas launched surprise attacks. Freund told CBS News she decided to stay and volunteer at a Tel Aviv hospital. AdvertisementAdvertisementMichele Freund, a physician's assistant from New York City, was on vacation in Israel when Hamas militants launched coordinated surprise attacks that killed at least 1,000 people, including at least 22 Americans, and wounded 2,806 others. CBS News reported that the hospital workers must often run and take shelter from incoming rockets fired from Gaza. Hundreds of civilians and military personnel were also taken captive in Hamas' surprise attacks.

Persons: Michele Freund, Freund, —, Gaza —, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Hamas, CBS News, Service, Israel Defense Forces, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, CBS Locations: Israel, Tel Aviv, New York City, Hungary, Gaza

At least 1,055 people have died in Gaza, with some 5,184 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. New York City's Empire State Building, illuminated in the colors of the flag of Israel on October 7. “This was the largest number of Jewish victims in an attack in one day since the Holocaust,” he said. “Not during the Yom Kippur War, not in the war of independence did we see civilians killed like this. Fighting regularly takes place between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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