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An Israeli strike has killed at least 90 Palestinians in the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza, the enclave’s Ministry of Health said, an attack that has drawn global condemnation. Displaced people sheltering in the area, which was designated as a “safe zone” by Israel, described the attack as a “horrific massacre”, adding that their tents were torn down by the force of the strike and bodies and body parts strewn on the ground. The Medical Aid for Palestinians charity published a video of Palestinians digging by hand to recover those buried in the sand following the Israeli attack. “I don’t…

Palestinians call a general strike in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of Israeli attack on safe zone that killed at least 90 people.Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are observing a general strike in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, denouncing Saturday’s attack on a designated safe zone of al-Mawasi that killed at least 90 people and injured some 300 others. Most cities in the West Bank joined the general strike on Sunday against Israel’s air attack on the refugee camp west of Khan Younis. Palestinians also protested on Saturday night in the cities of Jenin, Hebron…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – When Spain take the field at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium for their Euro 2024 final against England on Sunday, they will be cheered on by millions of fans around the world. From the capital Madrid in central Spain to Barcelona in the northeastern Catalonia region, the La Roja – as the Spanish football team is lovingly known – will have plenty of support as they seek their fourth European title. And more than 3,500km (2,175 miles) from Spain, football fans in Gaza will wholeheartedly back Alvaro Morata and his men. The people in the war-torn Strip will back…

Israeli strike on designated ‘safe zone’ leaves many buried under the rubble as Israel unsure if Hamas commander killed. Source link

Israeli air strikes on the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza have killed at least 90 people and wounded 300 others, according to Palestinian health officials. The attack on Saturday on the Israeli-designated “safe zone”, located west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, involved fighter jets and drones, according to witnesses. Israeli officials have said the attack targeted two senior members of Hamas’s military wing, claiming they were hiding among civilians. Hamas has dismissed this claim as “false”, saying it is a way of covering up the “horrific massacre” at a location where displaced Palestinians were urged to seek shelter after…

Condemnation has poured in after an Israeli air raid killed dozens of people in the al-Mawasi area of Gaza, which had been designated a “safe zone” by Israel, according to Gaza authorities. At least 90 people were killed and 300 others were wounded in Saturday’s attack, according to Palestinian authorities, which Israeli officials said targeted Hamas military commander, Mohammed Deif, and another senior figure in the armed group. Speaking to reporters hours later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “not absolutely certain” if Deif had been killed. Hamas has rejected the premise of the assault as “false”, saying that “defenceless civilians”…

Ankara has carried out repeated ground operations against Kurdish fighters, launching its most recent in 2022.Turkey will soon end its latest ground military operation in northern Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Speaking to military academy graduates on Saturday, Erdogan hailed Operation Claw-Lock, which Ankara launched in April 2022, as a success. He said Kurdish fighters were now “incapable of acting inside our borders”. “We will close the lock very soon in the Claw Operation Zone in northern Iraq,” Erdogan said, according to the Reuters news agency. The Turkish leader did not give a timeline for the end of…

In France, a shock election win for the left was no thanks to French media.The French far right may have been defeated at the polls, but much of the press remains sympathetic to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. How will the incoming left-wing coalition navigate a hostile media and a hung parliament? Contributors:Matthieu Bidan – Co-editor-in-chief, Street PressCatherine Fieschi – Fellow, Robert Schuman CentreCarine Fouteau – President, MediapartTheophile Kouamouo – Host, Le Media On our radar: Israel has maintained its onslaught on Gaza, attacking schools, killing journalists and ordering all citizens of Gaza City to leave their homes. Meenakshi Ravi…

Israel has tried for years to dismantle the UNRWA, which helps Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere.The United Nations chief has led an internationally backed effort to support its agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) but has yet to persuade its biggest Western donors. The United States and the United Kingdom, key allies of Israel, have continued to financially block the main organisation delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. Fourteen of the 16 donor nations resumed funding after suspending it in January, when Israel accused members of the organisation of having taken part in the October…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Al-Mawasi, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, has been targeted numerous times since October.More than 70 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds are wounded in Israeli military strikes on al-Mawasi, located west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Saturday put the death toll at 71 people and said 289 others were injured, including some critically wounded. The attack by Israeli warplanes targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians and a water distillation unit in an area that a Gaza civil defence spokesperson told Al Jazeera was designated a “safe zone” by…