Gaza
6 Apr
As the war in Gaza enters its six month – and more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed – FRANCE 24 spoke to the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "wants to have a perpetual war", Zomlot told FRANCE 24.
6 Apr
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the strike — which has sparked condemnation from world leaders — was "unintentional." One of food charity World Central Kitchen's convoys was hit after leaving a warehouse in central Gaza.
6 Apr
Gaza hospital raid complicates cease-fire negotiations: Nawaf Al-Thani
3 Apr
A new report by the World Bank and the United Nations, based on remote data collection sources, shows that damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza between October and January represents 97 percent of the GDP of the West Bank and Gaza from 2022.
3 Apr
Palestinian artist Ayman Mghamis once rapped about the hardships of growing up in Gaza. He told DW how he struggles to come to terms with fearing for his life and that of his family as the war continues.
28 Mar
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an "immediate" cease-fire during Ramadan in Gaza. It also calls for the immediate release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas. The United States abstained.
28 Mar
With the war between Israel and Hamas now in its sixth month, the needle is moving. But by how much? For the first time, the United States has lifted its veto on a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In past conflicts, whenever Washington has called time, Israel has bended.
25 Mar
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has made a renewed call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. "It is time to silence the guns," he said, speaking from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the enclave. He also called on Israel to give "total, unfettered" access to humanitarian goods throughout Gaza.
20 Mar
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Catherine Russell, the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm about the plight of children in Gaza after more than five months of Israel's war with Hamas.
14 Mar
Basil Budair, a British orthopaedic surgeon and member of IDEALS, a charity providing medical aid in conflict zones. He recently returned from a mission at Gaza's European hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis – one of the last health centres still operating in the besieged enclave.
13 Mar
“The Gaza Strip is poised to witness an explosion in preventable child deaths, which would compound the already unbearable level of child deaths in Gaza,” said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF's deputy executive director for humanitarian action, in a statement last week.
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