Palestinians in besieged Gaza crowded into hospitals and schools on Monday, seeking shelter and running low on food and water. More than a million people have fled their homes ahead of an expected Israeli ground invasion aimed at destroying Hamas after its fighters rampaged through southern Israel. As the enclave’s food, water and medicine supplies dwindled, all eyes were on …

Egypt has called for humanitarian relief to be provided to Palestinian civilians inside the Gaza Strip and says it is directing international aid flights to Al Arish airport near its border with the enclave. The Rafah crossing between Sinai and Gaza remained open, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, adding that Egypt had asked Israel to avoid targeting the Palestinian …

As Israel’s military sent phone messages telling Palestinians to leave some areas of Gaza after Saturday’s deadly Hamas raid, Mohammad Brais did not know where to seek safety from an assault that residents expect to be the worst they have ever faced. “Where should we go? Where should we go?” the 55-year-old father asked. He had fled his home near a possible …

Backed by a barrage of rockets, Hamas militants stormed from the blockaded Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns, killing dozens and abducting others in an unprecedented surprise attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday. A stunned Israel launched airstrikes in Gaza, with its prime minister saying the country is now at war with Hamas and vowing to inflict an “unprecedented price.” In an …

There are fears of a “secondary disaster” in Turkey and Syria as hundreds of thousands of homeless earthquake victims are forced to live without shelter, water, fuel and electricity. The death toll jumped again to 20,000 — surpassing the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. The World Health Organisation warned that survivors could lose their lives …

The total death toll from the earthquakes that struck southwest Turkey and northern Syria on Monday has climbed to above 20,000, a tally that is expected to rise as crews comb the rubble of thousands of toppled buildings. Turkey’s disaster agency raised the country’s confirmed death toll on Thursday night to 17,406, while the number of lives lost in neighbouring Syria stood …

Search and rescue operations in southern Turkey and northern Syria have entered their third day as the death toll surpassed 17000  amid a warning from the World Health Organization that time was running out to save those still trapped under earthquake-toppled buildings. Those efforts – buoyed by an array of international pledges to provide engineers, emergency responders and search dogs – …

The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes has passed 17,000. At least 14,000 people have died in Turkey, according to the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while at least 3,162 have been killed in Syria. The first UN aid convoy has reached rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey. Hopes of finding survivors are quickly fading and residents of southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria …

Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Tuesday refuted attempts of US officials to mislead the world public opinion on the economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian people, claiming that there is nothing that prevents the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria. “The US administration’s officials, among them the Regional Spokesperson of the US State Department, Samuel Werberg, and the US permanent …

Head of the Czechoslovakian Institute of International Relations, Jaromir Schlapata, called on the international community to unite and remove the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria as soon as possible and to provide the necessary aid in response to the devastating earthquake with no politicisation. Moreover, Schlapata strongly condemned the inaction by the International Community and international organisations, namely the …