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Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people after it struck a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. More than 80 people were injured in Sunday’s attack on the UN-run Abu Oraiban school. It is the fifth attack on a school-turned-shelter in eight days. The Abu Oraiban school was housing “thousands of displaced people”, Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said, adding that most of the dead were women and children. The Israeli military said its air force “struck a number of terrorists who were operating in the area of UNRWA’s…

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Petaling Jaya, Malaysia – Looking from behind his counter on a recent Saturday afternoon, computer shop owner Goh Sook Lam surveyed the empty corridors of 3 Damansara shopping mall. Two levels down, shouts rang out from a taekwondo event on the ground floor of the once-popular shopping centre located on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. “You have a taekwondo competition downstairs, but who is coming up here?” Goh, 48, told Al Jazeera, standing beside longtime customer Rudi Sim, 48, his only spending patron so far for the day. “My regulars are my business. Walk-ins are less … Sometimes I can’t…

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Mohammed Deif, the military commander of Hamas in Gaza, has escaped another Israeli attempt to kill him and is doing “fine”, a senior official of the Palestinian group says. The Hamas official’s statement on Sunday followed reports that Deif was targeted in a massive Israeli air strike on the besieged territory’s southern area that killed at least 90 people and wounded 300 others. “Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing” the operations of the Hamas military wing, the official told AFP news agency. Israel says its Saturday bombing of the al-Mawasi camp, a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza, was…

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NewsFeedAn Israeli attack on a designated humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi has killed 90 Palestinians. Thousands of displaced Palestinians were sheltering there. The Israeli military claims it was targeting Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was not certain Deif had been killed in the strike.Published On 14 Jul 202414 Jul 2024 Source link

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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