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JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimates that Gaza's population has fallen by about 6% since the start of Israel's war on the enclave.Israel’s air and ground offensive has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The PCBS states that more than 55,000 are presumed dead, as 11,000 people remain missing. About 100,00 Palestinians that left Gaza since 7 October, 2023, it adds.As such, the PCBS says Gaza's population has declined by around 160,000 to 2.1 million. While Israel's foreign ministry says this number is fabricated, it matches the estimate made by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). As of July 2024, OCHA estimates that about 2.1 million people remain in the Gaza...
January 02, 2025
Palestinian statistics bureau projects Gaza population down by 6% since start of war
January 01, 2025
Foreign fighters given senior Syrian army posts, reports say
January 01, 2025
UN says Israeli attacks pushing Gaza healthcare towards total collapse
JERUSALEM — Sila was less than three weeks old when her mother Nariman realized she wasn't moving."I woke up in the morning and told my husband that the baby hadn't stirred for a while. He uncovered her face and found her blue, biting her tongue, with blood coming out of her mouth," says Nariman al-Najmeh.In their tent situated on the beach in southern Gaza, Nariman is sitting with her husband, Mahmoud Fasih, and their two young children - Rayan, who is four years old, and Nihad, who is two and a half.The family say they have been displaced more than 10 times during the 14-month war."My husband is a fisherman, we're from the north and left without anything but we did it for our children," says Nariman in an interview with a freelance cameraman working with...
December 31, 2024
Gaza babies dying from the cold as winter temperatures drop
December 31, 2024
US says Guantanamo inmate sent back to Tunisia
GENEVA — Israel must stop targeting Palestinian medical facilities, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general has said, a few days after Israeli forces raided one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza.The Israeli army detained more than 240 people at Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday, including the director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya — whom it accused, without providing evidence, of being a Hamas operative.MedGlobal, the humanitarian organisation that employs Abu Safiya, called the raid part of an “alarming and egregious pattern of targeting medical personnel and spaces”, while the WHO described it as part of a “systematic dismantling of the health system”.Writing on X on Monday, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for Dr Abu Safiya’s immediate...
December 30, 2024
Israel has to ‘stop attacks on hospitals’ in Gaza, says WHO chief
December 30, 2024
New elections could take up to four years, Syria leader says
December 30, 2024
Tourist killed in shark attack off Egyptian coast
December 27, 2024
Israel forcibly evacuates Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza
BAMAKO — At least 69 people, including 25 Malians, have died after a boat bound for Spain from West Africa capsized off Morocco, Mali's authorities have confirmed.The "makeshift boat" was carrying about 80 people, but only 11 people survived, said a statement from the Ministry of Malians Abroad. At least nine of the survivors are from Mali.The boat capsized last week, but the ministry confirmed the incident on Thursday.A crisis unit has been dispatched to monitor the situation, it said.Mali has suffered years of jihadist and separatist violence — resulting in military coups in 2020 and 2021.The junta promised to hold elections to return to civilian rule by March 2024, but this has not happened yet.The instability in the country, due to widespread jihadist insurgency, has...
December 27, 2024
At least 69 dead after boat sinks in Morocco waters
