Tag Archives: Gaza

Jerusalem, Israel | ALL AFRICA.COM | Joshua Loitu Mollel, a 21-year-old Tanzanian national who was among five African victims of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, has been found dead in Israel, bringing closure to his family’s two-year ordeal. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said his remains were recovered from Gaza on …

GAZA | Xinhua | Sitting inside a makeshift tent in northern Gaza, 31-year-old Mariam Abu al-Kas stares blankly ahead, her hands trembling as she speaks. “Every time I close my eyes, I relive that night,” she told Xinhua. A year and a half ago, she lost her husband and five …

GAZA | Xinhua | In a shattered neighborhood of al-Daraj, Gaza City, former football defender Ramez Al-Issi sat behind a small stall selling tea and coffee, leaning heavily on a metal crutch. The 41-year-old, once a standout player for Al-Hilal Sports Club, is learning to navigate life without his left …

GAZA | Xinhua | On a dusty patch of land in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, a worn-out canvas canopy offers scant protection from the autumn sun. Below it, dozens of girls sit on the ground, their notebooks resting on knees, their eyes fixed on a small blackboard hanging from a …

GAZA | Xinhua |  In a small tent pitched atop the rubble of her destroyed home, Nour Mohammed Abu Madi, 34, is losing her battle with bone cancer. She has no access to chemotherapy, no way to leave for treatment abroad, and little hope that help will arrive in time. …

Egypt peace summit showed that it is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’ COMMENT | DAVID HASTINGS DUNN | Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought …

GENEVA | Xinhua |  Despite a ceasefire in Gaza and an increase in aid, hunger and disease persist, putting children’s lives at risk as the flow of aid remains only a fraction of what is needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. “The situation still remains catastrophic because what’s …

GAZA | Xinhua | At dawn, obstetrician-gynecologist Somaya Shomer walks briskly toward al-Awda field hospital in al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Balancing her duties as a physician and a mother of three, she helps women give birth amid war and devastation. “In my previous pregnancies, I enjoyed every stage,” …

GAZA | Xinhua | When U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his 20-point peace plan for Gaza on Sept. 29, I thought Hamas would reject it outright. The proposal excluded the Palestinian movement from governing Gaza and required it to disarm — conditions that seemed impossible for it to accept. Yet …

From ‘dead cat diplomacy’ to a ‘strangle contract’ COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | When Donald Trump called Benjamin Netanyahu on October 4 to tell him that Hamas had agreed to at least some of his 20-point ceasefire plan, the Israeli prime minister’s equivocal response was he saw …