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After more than a month of being subjected to sustained bombing, the besieged people of the Gaza Strip are now confronted with another threat to life: disease. Overcrowding at shelters, a breakdown of basic sanitation, the rising…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Hundreds of patients left al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Saturday morning, as Israeli officials stepped up their…

Israeli troops were searching Gaza’s largest hospital in what they called a “targeted” operation to find Hamas weapons and infrastructure, as concern grew for thousands of patients and civilians sheltering at the site.Al-Shifa hospital,…

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Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the enclave, receives data from every hospital in the strip. Hospital administrators say they keep records of every wounded person occupying a bed and every body arriving at a morgue. The ministry…

For many patients in Gaza’s besieged north, the order to evacuate from hospital beds and head south amounts to a “death sentence.” That was the stark assessment of the World Health Organization on Oct. 14, 2023. By then, four…

Issued on: 04/09/2022 - 10:37 The Hamas Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that it executed five Palestinians, including two for "collaboration" with…

Since the coronavirus first emerged in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a shortage of medical supplies has allowed authorities to administer only a relatively tiny number of Covid-19 tests.Now, the sole laboratory in Gaza that processes test…