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...
Malacañang is confident that Philippine Embassy in Tel-Aviv and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) are very much prepared for any contingency that may arise as a result of the escalating conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. At the regular press briefing, both the...
Calls grew on Wednesday for a de-escalation of violence after intense hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians that have left at least 72 dead and hundreds injured. Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces in the city centre of the West Bank town of Hebron, on May 12,2021. The most...
The Philippines on Wednesday joined the international community in expressing “serious deep concern” over the escalation of violence in parts of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Photo shows Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 10,...
The Philippine Embassy in Jerusalem has not received any report of Filipino casualties amid the ongoing escalation of the violence between Israel and the Palestinians, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. DFA Strategic Communications Executive Director Ivy Banzon-Abalos said...
