WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s first refugee lawmaker resigned after local media aired allegations she had shoplifted several times at local high-end boutiques. Without referring to the specific allegations, Golriz Ghahraman, a member of New Zealand’s Green Party and its justice and foreign affairs spokesperson, resigned with immediate effect, saying that “stresses relating to my work” … Read more
LONDON — An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine — a rare Asiatic black bear — arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon. The 12-year-old Yampil was named for a village in the Donetsk region where he was one of the few … Read more
Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, killing at least six Palestinians, Palestinian health authorities said Wednesday. The Israeli military also expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to the densely populated urban refugee camps in the central part of the territory. Residents reported shelling and airstrikes in the tiny, … Read more
Israel is apparently preparing to expand its ground offensive in Gaza into a third section of the territory. Palestinian refugee camps were bombarded in central Gaza on Tuesday, residents said. More than 20,600 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Health Ministry in … Read more
December 5, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EST Civilians walk in the heavily damaged neighbourhood of a-Damaj in Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Editors’ note: This story contains graphic images of dead children. JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — The nightly exodus begins … Read more
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Hundreds of patients, medical staff and people displaced by Israel’s war against Hamas left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, with one evacuee describing a panicked and chaotic scene as Israeli forces searched and face-scanned men among those leaving and took some away. Israel’s military has been searching Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. The strike came as Israel said it would press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause to get … Read more
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 33 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. The strike came as Israel said it would press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause to get … Read more
Israeli airstrikes hit a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 33 people, health officials said. The strikes came a day after the U.S. urged Israel to take a humanitarian pause from its bombardment of Gaza, where Palestinians reported multiple fatalities on Saturday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made … Read more
About 400 U.S. citizens along with their eligible family members are expected to begin leaving Gaza in stages Thursday through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, the only official exit point not controlled by Israel, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Injured Palestinians, along … Read more