Gaza Strip

February 26, 2025 5:20 PM

Trump shares AI-generated video of Gaza transformation, featuring golden statue and ‘Will Set You Free’ song

Amid controversy over his remarks about "taking over" the Gaza Strip, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared an AI-generated video portraying a transformed Gaza, reimagined as a lavish tourist destination. The video, titled 'Trump’s Gaza', showcases skyscrapers, children gazing at the sky as dollar bills rain down, and Elon Musk enjoying hummus on a Gaza beach. A boy holds a golden balloon resembling Trump’s face, while an enormous golden statue of Trump towers over the city, with ...

December 12, 2024 5:30 PM

India votes in favour of UNGA resolution for ‘immediate, unconditional, permanent’ Gaza ceasefire

India has joined 157 other nations in supporting a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution demanding an "immediate, unconditional, and permanent" ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip. The UNGA overwhelmingly approved two resolutions on Wednesday, one calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the other backing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which Israel has sought to ban. The first resolution, demanding an immediate ceasefire, was...

November 29, 2024 8:56 PM

Israeli tanks retreat from central Gaza camp, medics say 30 killed

Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians overnight in the Gaza Strip, most of them in the Nuseirat camp at the centre of the enclave, medics said on Friday, after some tanks pulled back from an area they had raided. Medics said they had recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians killed in northern areas of Nuseirat, one of the enclave's eight long-standing refugee camps. The rest were killed in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, medics added. There was no fresh stateme...

October 23, 2024 11:17 PM

Main points from the BRICS declaration

Below are the key points from the Kazan declaration issued by the BRICS group after a summit in Russia. ON UKRAINE: "We emphasize that all states should act consistently with the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interrelation. We note with appreciation relevant proposals of mediation and good offices, aimed at a peaceful resolution of the conflict through dialogue and diplomacy." ON THE MIDDLE EAST: "We reiterate our grave concern at the deterioration of the si...

October 21, 2024 4:20 PM

Israeli forces storm shelters, detain men, as north Gaza raid deepens

Israeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics said. They also rounded up men and ordered women to leave the camp, they said. Medics at the Indonesian Hospital told reporters that Israeli troops stormed a school and detained the men before setting the facility ablaze. The fire reached the hospital generators and caused a power outage, they added. Health ...

October 3, 2024 9:21 AM

Israel Defence Forces’ Chief Halevi vows to bring back hostages amid heightened military readiness

The Israel Defence Forces' Chief of the General Staff, LTG Herzi Halevi, stated that IDF soldiers will observe the holiday in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Judea, Samaria, and along all borders. Halevi emphasised that the holiday is incomplete without the hostages, stressing the IDF's determination to bring them back from Gaza. In a post on X, the IDF said, "IDF soldiers will mark the holiday in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Judea, Samaria, and on all borders, with reinforced forces and heightened readin...

September 17, 2024 3:37 PM

Israel updates war goals with fate of defence minister unclear

Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to replace his defence minister with a hawkish rival. Netanyahu's office said he laid out the war aim in an overnight security cabinet meeting. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from towns and villages on both sides of the border by near-daily exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and the Lebanes...

August 30, 2024 5:20 PM

What is known about polio’s return to the Gaza Strip

Health authorities in the Gaza Strip confirmed the first case of polio in 25 years earlier this month. The infection and subsequent partial paralysis of the nearly year-old Abdul-Rahman Abu Al-Jidyan has hastened plans for a mass vaccination campaign of children across the Palestinian enclave starting on Sept. 1. Three-day pauses in fighting in each of Gaza's three zones have been agreed by Israel and Hamas to allow thousands of U.N. workers to administer vaccines. WHERE DID THE INFECTION COM...

July 31, 2024 3:33 PM

Polio cases ‘very likely’ in Gaza population, WHO says

It is very likely that polio has infected people in the Gaza Strip, in what would be a setback for global efforts to eradicate the disease, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday. Gaza's health ministry declared a polio epidemic across the Palestinian enclave late on Monday after samples of the virus were found in sewage. It has not announced any human cases. According to the WHO, polio is now endemic only in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but more than 30 countries are still list...

September 16, 2024 5:54 PM

India at UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza strip, urges for unconditional release of hostages

India at the United Nations has reiterated its call for an immediate and complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and called for the release of the hostages without any conditions. Delivering his remarks at the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) Open Debate on the Middle East on Wednesday, India's Deputy Representative to the UN, R Ravindra, also underlined that India's developmental assistance to Palestine, in various forms over the years, amounts close to USD 120 million. "India was among t...