The Palestinian enclave of Gaza's only COVID-19 laboratory is no longer able to carry out testing due to an Israeli air strike Monday on the clinic housing it, local authorities said. Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 17, 2021. SAID KHATIB / AFP...
Despite the escalating situation in Israel, the Philippine government is maintaining the same alert level where Filipinos are advised to take precautions, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) In a statement, the DFA said they have not received a...
Israeli air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip Monday, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Palestinian militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded. This picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Sderot shows rockets fired from...
Filipinos staying in areas affected by the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants have been evacuated, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said on Sunday, May 16. Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israeli warplanes target the Palestinian enclave,...
GAZA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have left dozens of people dead and more than 1,000 others injured, leaving the government-run hospitals in the Palestinian enclave overburdened due to the sudden rise of patients. Palestinian children, who were wounded in...
Israel and the Palestinians are mired in their worst violence in years in which Islamist groups have fired rockets and Israel has pounded Gaza with air strikes. A ball of fire erupts from a building in Gaza City's Rimal residential district on May 16, 2021, during massive Israeli bombardment on the...
At least 33 Palestinians, including eight children, were killed Sunday in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in the worst daily toll since bombardment started almost a week ago, local authorities said. The health ministry in the blockaded coastal enclave said a total of 181 Palestinians, including 52...
Al Jazeera said Saturday it would not be silenced, after an Israeli air strike on Gaza demolished the building housing the Qatar-based broadcaster as well as US news agency The Associated Press. Al-Jazeera journalists stand next to the rubble of Jala Tower, which was housing international press...
US President Joe Biden, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed his "grave concern" Saturday over the flareup of violence in Israel and Gaza, the White House said. US President Joe Biden Nicholas Kamm / AFP Speaking on the sixth day of a paroxysm of...
Filipino workers in Israel struggle to sleep following nights of continuous aerial exchanges between Israel and Palestine. Palestinian protesters place a national flag on a traffic sign during clashes with Israeli forces in the Shuafat Palestinian neighbourhood, neighbouring the Israeli settlement...
Philippine labor authorities in Israel are eyeing the evacuation of some 300 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the southern part of the country, which is being bombarded with Palestinian rockets. Labor Attaché in Israel Rudy Gabasan (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) "If it escalates into a war,...
JERUSALEM, Israel (Xinhua) -- An 87-year-old Israeli woman died in a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, bringing to eight the death toll of Israelis killed in the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The woman, from the community of Shtulim near the city of Ashdod, was hit in the head...
