Hospitals in some areas of China have been overwhelmed after a surge in respiratory illnesses among children. Following a surge in respiratory illnesses in China, particularly among children, paediatric units in city hospitals are swamped. Many hospital wards are full. The World Health Organization has asked Beijing to provide more information on the cases. Al…
The Israeli army has called on residents from certain neighbourhoods in southern Khan Younis to evacuate to other areas. The warning came through the new evacuation system that Israel says was elaborated for civilians to avoid being targeted. Since Friday, Israeli forces started dropping leaflets showing a map of Gaza divided into thousands of numbered…
There has been an intense exchange of fire along the Israel-Lebanon border. The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has launched several attacks on Israeli military positions since hostilities resumed on Friday, following the end of the Gaza ceasefire. Israel has used white phosphorus shells and carried out raids targeting what it says are the sources of…
In detailing the scenes within Khan Younis’s al-Nassar Hospital in Gaza, James Elder, UNICEF’s global spokesperson, paints a grim picture. He describes children with severe injuries, mothers grieving over critically ill children, and an overall atmosphere resembling a death zone. Elder emphasizes the dual threat faced by children: the immediate danger of Israeli air strikes…
A bombing attack on a university gymnasium in the southern Philippines has killed four people and wounded several others. The explosion ripped through a gymnasium at Mindanao State University in Marawi City during a Catholic mass service on Sunday morning. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr condemned the attack and said he had instructed the police…
“Bury me with him!” This is the moment Palestinian boy Saaed farewells his brother Mohammad who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. More than 700 Palestinians have been killed since a truce between Israel and Hamas ended. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook…
After speaking to several women who had been arrested in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid traced the phases of detention that female prisoners have to face: They are first brought to Ofer prison They are then taken to another location for interrogation for several days After that, they are moved…
The armed wing of Hamas says it fired a barrage of missiles at Tel Aviv on Saturday. A statement issued by the Qassam Brigades says it was in response to Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. Israeli police said surveys were being carried out to locate the rockets, and that no casualties had been…
The deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, tells Al Jazeera there will be no prisoner-captive exchange as long as the onslaught on Gaza continues. “There are no negotiations now on the truce. There will be no prisoner exchange until the aggression ends and there is a comprehensive and definitive ceasefire,” he said. “The…
US Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas but said international and humanitarian law must be respected. She noted too many Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war. “Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating,” Harris told reporters. “So we all…