France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity over chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source and plaintiffs in the case said Wednesday. The judicial source told AFP  Assad  was also...

The head of the emergencies department at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza said on Wednesday that the Israeli army was “blindfolding, stripping and taking displaced people sheltering to an unknown destination”.  He also refuted Israeli army claims that any incubators and baby food were given...

Israel’s military said it had entered al-Shifa hospital on Wednesday.  "Based on intelligence information and an operational necessity, IDF forces are carrying out a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area in the Shifa Hospital," the Israeli military said. ...

Israel has informed health officials in Gaza that it intends to raid the besieged al-Shifa hospital in the coming minutes, according to Al Jazeera. Israel instructed Palestinian health workers by phone not to approach the windows or doors of Al-Shifa Hospital, Ashraf al-Qudra, the...

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Monday that Israel is trying to market illusionary advances in Gaza as part of a psychological warfare campaign. "The (Israeli) occupation tries to market illusionary advances in Gaza as part of its psychological war on the residents of Gaza,"...

Syrian regime extended its permission for UN to use its two crossings through Türkiye to deliver humanitarian assistance for three months, the UN humanitarian affairs office said on Monday. "The UN cross-border operation remains a lifeline to people in north-west Syria. Each month, the UN...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister on Monday in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of interior minister Suella Braverman after her criticism of the police threatened his authority. It was the latest reset for a prime minister...

Speaking from a live press conference in Gaza’s Deir al Balah on Sunday, a Palestinian government official said that the Gaza death toll has now reached 11,180 since the start of the war on 7 October.  The spokesperson also said 22 hospitals and 49 medical centres have completely...

Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila said on Sunday that Israeli forces were "not evacuating people", but rather "forcing wounded patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death". According to the minister, this amounts to "expulsion under the threat of arms". She...

The director general of hospitals in the Gaza Strip warned on Sunday that lives of about 650 patients are at risk due to the catastrophic situation in the Al-Shifa Hospital. About 650 patients, including 36 children, have their lives in danger, Muhammad Zaqout said at a press conference,...

The Palestinian Health Ministry’s Director General in Gaza, Dr Munir Al-Borsh, provided an update on the situation in Al Shifah Hospital to Aljazeera. Here’s what he had to say:  Around 40 displaced people in the hospital attempted to leave through the main gate. They were shelled...

Gaza's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, has remained under Israeli siege for more than 24 hours, with humanitarian watchdogs warning of "catastrophic" outcomes.  Israel's siege of the hospital has come following several days of nearby bombings by Israeli fighter jets and tanks. Since the...

Israel has targeted dozens of mosques and churches in the Gaza Strip as part of its ongoing assault, which is now in its second month, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a new statement on Saturday.  “Israel’s bombing of places of worship is in clear violation of international...

The head of surgery at the Al Shifa hospital, Dr Marwan Abu Sada, paints a dark picture on the situation they are facing in Gaza.  Speaking to Medical Aid for Palestine, Sada describes how no one is able to get out of the Shifa hospital as people are being shot in the streets. ...

The Palestinian Hamas movement called on the leaders of the Arab and Islamic nations meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday to take a “historic decision” to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza “immediately.” In a statement, the movement also called for the formation of medical,...

(Doha Institute)- Israelis woke at dawn on Saturday 7 October, to find hundreds of Palestinian fighters storming military bases and residential areas near the Gaza Strip. The Hamas attack, which the group labelled “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, saw its gunmen seize dozens of military outposts and...

Newborn Palestinian babies in incubators are beginning to die as Israeli forces put Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital under total siege and power blackout.  Israeli fighter jets and tanks have been shelling the area outside the hospital, the biggest in the coastal enclave, for over 12 hours...

ntense street battles are taking place near Gaza City, as Israeli attacks on hospitals in the beseiged enclave were ongoing late into Friday night. Here's what you may have missed from the last few hours:  The Israeli military has launched relentless air strikes, artillery fire and...

An Israeli air strike has hit al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza. The strike hit a car in the yard of the hospital's complex, a health ministry spokesperson told Al Jazeera Arabic. The spokesperson added that the strike has caused a number of casualties, but the number is...

The UN said Thursday that any halt to the conflict in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian purposes needs to be coordinated with the global body, hours after Israel announced it would provide daily humanitarian pauses in the besieged enclave. "Any such halt in the fighting and how it would work...