Chaos at Gaza aid hub staffed by armed American contractors – CBS News Watch CBS News For the first time in more than a year of war in Gaza, a group of armed Americans is in the middle of it. They are part of a new system designed to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid. Imtiaz […]
Tiny girl who emerged from flames of Israeli strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter says
Harrowing cellphone video shows the tiny silhouette of Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil trudging through rubble, her make-shift shelter engulfed in flames around her, after an Israeli strike hit the school where she and her family had fled to escape the war raging around them in the Gaza Strip. Khalil, just 5 years old, survived. Her mother […]
Controversial new U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza aid effort gets off to a slow, tumultuous start
A controversial new U.S. and Israel-backed aid group says it began operating in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Monday, despite objections from the United Nations, other humanitarian groups, and the recent, sudden resignation of its American executive director, who said it couldn’t operate independently. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GFH) said it opened its first aid […]
Israel strikes Gaza school, saying Hamas militants used it as command center
Israel strikes Gaza school, saying Hamas militants used it as command center – CBS News Watch CBS News Israel struck a school in the Gaza Strip on Monday. It said Hamas militants were using the building as a command center. At least 80 people were killed, according to officials there. Elizabeth Palmer reports. Be the […]
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza as controversy and concern grow over humanitarian aid
Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including some 36 in a school-turned-shelter that was struck as people slept, igniting their belongings, according to local health officials. The military said it targeted militants operating from the school. Israel renewed its offensive in March after ending a ceasefire with Hamas. […]
Aid trucks going into Gaza are a “drop in the bucket as to what’s needed,” WFP director says
The number of aid trucks being allowed to enter Gaza last week is only a “drop in the bucket” of what is actually needed to stave off potential famine in the territory, the head of the U.N. World Food Program said. Cindy McCain, the program’s executive director, warned that the blockade by Israel of Gaza […]
9 of Gaza doctor’s 10 children among those killed in latest string of Israeli strikes, hospital says
Nearly 80 people have been killed in the latest round of Israeli strikes in Gaza – a death toll that doesn’t include hospitals in the battered north that the Hamas-run Health Ministry said are now inaccessible. The dead over the past 24 hours included nine of a doctor’s 10 children, horrified colleagues and the health […]
Israeli ambassador to the U.S. on killing of 2 embassy staffers
Israeli ambassador to the U.S. on killing of 2 embassy staffers – CBS News Watch CBS News Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., shares his thoughts on Wednesday night’s murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. […]
World leaders condemn shooting of Israeli embassy staff in D.C. as Israel blames antisemitic incitement
World leaders reacted Thursday morning to the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., as the Israeli government blamed the attack on “antisemitic incitement” by other countries, “especially from Europe.” Washington’s chief of police said the suspect in the attack, identified as a Chicago man, shouted “free, free Palestine,” […]
Israel condemned over troops in occupied West Bank firing
Jenin, West Bank — Several nations that have backed Israel during its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip voiced outrage Wednesday after Israeli troops fired what they called “warning shots” as foreign diplomats visited the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority, which partially administers the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, accused Israeli troops of “deliberately” shooting at […]