Hospitals in Gaza: no anesthetics and corridors overflowing with wounded patients

An injured Palestinian child who survived an Israeli airstrike is treated by a medical team at Nasser Hospital in the Khan Yunis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 21 October 2023. EFE/EPA/HAITHAM IMAD ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Jerusalem, Oct 21 (EFE).- Surgeries performed without anesthesia and in the corridors of hospitals is the daily life of the remaining hospitals in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas and subject to ongoing Israeli bombardment that on Saturday entered its fifteenth day. “Those who may have a hope of life are … Read more

Israel announces ‘full offense’ against Gaza without ‘restraints’

File photo of Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in Athens, Greece, 4 May 2023. EFE/EPA/YANNIS KOLESIDIS

Jerusalem, Oct 10 (EFE).- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced Tuesday that the country will launch a “full offense” against the Gaza Strip that will completely change the situation and called Hamas militants “human animals.” “I have released all the restraints, we have (regained) control of the area, and we are moving to a full … Read more

Hamas threatens to execute Israeli civilian hostages if unannounced bombardment continues

File photo of Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas), during a press conference in Gaza City, 26 March 2010. EFE / Ali Ali

Gaza, Oct 9 (EFE).- The Islamist group Hamas threatened on Monday to “publicly” execute Israeli civilian hostages if Israel continues its indiscriminate shelling of the Gaza Strip without warning residents. “Any attack on innocent homes in Gaza without prior warning and alarm will be met with the public execution of a hostage,” Abu Obeida, spokesman … Read more

Gaza-Israel war out of control: more than 430 dead in one day

Palestinians inspect the destroyed surrounding of the Palestine Tower after Israeli warplanes targeted it in Gaza City, 07 October 2023. Rocket barrages were launched from the Gaza Strip early 07 October in a surprise attack on Israel claimed by the Islamist movement Hamas. IEFE/EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

Jerusalem/Gaza, Oct. 7 (EFE) – Heavy Israeli bombardment of Gaza, more than 3,000 rockets fired from the Strip into Israel, fighting against Palestinian militias that still control Israeli territory and dozens of Israeli hostages marked the war that broke out Saturday. The day ends with at least 430 dead on both sides in a matter … Read more

Palestinian killed during Israeli military raid in West Bank

Jerusalem, Nov 30 (EFE).- A Palestinian man has been killed during a fresh Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, amid the worst wave of violence in the region in years. “A citizen with gunshot wounds to the chest succumbed to his critical injuries in the town of Yabad,” the Palestinian ministry … Read more