JERUSALEM — Israel’s army said Monday it had killed a Hamas official inside Gaza City’s al-Shifa medical complex, an operation that unfolded as experts warned that the northern part of the enclave may already be in the grip of famine. The White House, meanwhile, confirmed that Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing, … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces launched another raid on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital early Monday, saying Hamas militants had regrouped there and had fired on them from inside the compound, where Palestinian officials say tens of thousands of people have been sheltering. The U.N. food agency, meanwhile, said “famine is imminent” in northern … Read more
CAIRO — For nearly a month, Shaima Abu Khater didn’t know what had happened to her newborn daughter. By the time Kinda arrived on Oct. 30 — more than a month before her due date — Abu Khater’s home in northern Gaza had been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, she said. Israel was signaling it … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave U.S. intelligence officials offered fresh details this week to bolster their November assessment that Hamas militants used the al-Shifa Hospital complex in the northern Gaza Strip as a command center, a public statement that preceded by hours a controversial assault on the complex by Israel’s military. The … Read more
December 21, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. EST A Post analysis of open-source visuals and satellite imagery sheds light on the Israel Defense Forces’ claims about Hamas’s use of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (Ronen Zvulun, Reuters/The Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Weeks before Israel sent troops into al-Shifa … Read more
As Gaza’s biggest hospital complex, Al-Shifa, collapsed from a lack of power, oxygen, and water by Nov. 11, the lives of 39 premature babies hung in the balance after they could no longer receive critical care from incubators. Soon after, an image began circulating online and grabbed the world’s attention, showing the newborns wrapped in … Read more
Even in the darkness, the utter devastation in northern Gaza is clear as day. The empty shells of buildings, illuminated by the last shreds of light, lurch out of the landscape on the dirt roads across the Gaza Strip. At night, the only signs of life are the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) vehicles that rumble the landscape, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — The World Health Organization said Sunday that it had evacuated 31 premature infants from Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the newborns to a facility near the Egyptian border and signaling a broader effort to save the most vulnerable amid an Israeli siege of the sprawling … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Israel intensified its military campaign in parts of northern Gaza on Saturday, deploying infantry and armored corps units to densely packed areas of Gaza City, as well as to nearby Jabalya, where strikes on two U.N. schools killed and injured scores of people who were … Read more
The Israel Defense Forces released a photo and video Thursday of a newly exposed ground cavity that it described as an “operational tunnel shaft” inside al-Shifa Hospital complex, after it began a raid on Gaza’s largest hospital earlier this week. The Washington Post confirmed the location of the visuals to be inside the al-Shifa Hospital … Read more