Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave CAIRO — Despite his experience as an orthopedic surgeon, Hany Bsaiso froze when he saw his teenage niece’s injuries. Her right leg, he said, had been blown off below the knee by an Israeli tank shell. The other was severely injured. “Where do I start?” he recalls … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave CAIRO — Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded an eight-country swing through the Middle East on Thursday, touting progress on postwar planning for the Gaza Strip, but he received little public enthusiasm from the regional states essential for the plan’s success. Arab leaders in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, … Read more
AL ULA, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that four key Arab nations and Turkey have agreed to begin planning for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza once Israel’s war against Hamas ends. Blinken, who is on an urgent Mideast mission aimed primarily at preventing the conflict from spreading as … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave CAIRO — Israeli attacks around central Gaza’s last remaining hospital caused hundreds of displaced civilians to flee over the weekend and forced most medical workers to evacuate, leaving wounded people with no good options for seeking care as fighting intensifies in the area. Organizations including Doctors Without … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Nearly three months of war have left Gaza in ruins. Israel’s quest … 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
I have been working day and night at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza for more than a month and a half, sometimes performing up to 20 reconstructive surgeries a day. Removing dead tissue from burns. Performing skin grafts. Handling stump closures for amputees. I have spent weeks sleeping in the hospital so … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in Gaza’s two largest cities on Monday, with civilians still sheltering along the front lines even after massive waves of displacement across the besieged territory. Israel has pledged to keep fighting until it removes Hamas from power, dismantles its military capabilities and returns all of the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM – International pressure on Israel to halt its war in Gaza intensified Sunday as Israeli tanks and troops pushed into the center of Khan Younis, the largest city in southern Gaza, and diplomats and U.N. officials gave increasingly dire warnings over the lack of food and … Read more
Israeli forces pierced deeper into the Gaza Strip as part of a new phase of the war, an incursion into the enclave’s south after aerial and ground attacks in the north. The Israeli army is present “in the heart of the Khan Younis region” in southern Gaza, as well as the Jabalya and Shejaiya regions … Read more