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HealthGaza's wounded ask who decides which patients get to leave
They have gathered outside the Nasser Medical Complex most Sundays for about eight months. Monday's demand was not for speed but for the criteria: tell us how the evacuation list is ordered.
RightsWoman in the Damon prison video is held without charge
Her family recognised Hanaa Tahaineh, 49, by her weight loss. She has scabies and no treatment, her husband says, and was arrested a week before he was released.
RightsGaza hospital director held 600 days without charge or trial
Hussam Abu Safiya was taken from Kamal Adwan Hospital in December 2024. Amnesty International has renewed its demand for his release, and 800 British medics wrote to the foreign secretary in July.
GazaOne CT scanner is left in northern Gaza for a million people
The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex puts the shortage of essential medicines at 52 percent and says 21,000 patients now need treatment that no hospital in the territory can give them.
HealthChildren who lost limbs learn to swim at a pool in al-Mawasi
A rehabilitation programme takes about 30 children at a time, starting each session with psychological support and ending it in the water.
GazaGaza City buries 50 people found after three years in the rubble
Civil Defence crews spent weeks pulling the remains out of five neighbourhoods with a single excavator. Some 8,000 people are still thought to lie under the debris.
HealthDoctors say malnutrition has permanently stunted famine survivors
A six-year-old in Gaza City has the bone age of a two-year-old, and a 10-month-old born to a starving mother is being treated for her heart, kidneys and lungs. Food returning has not moved either diagnosis.
GazaAll seven deaths in Gaza's latest count entered against the truce
The toll since October 2025 rose to 1,273 killed, by exactly the number of bodies hospitals received in a day, while the separate count of recovered bodies did not move at all.
HealthIsraeli forces enter a Bethlehem rehabilitation hospital
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has asked the World Health Organization and the Red Cross to step in, saying entries onto medical premises have become a pattern rather than an exception.
GazaGaza patients protest blocked medical transfers for a fourth month
Some of those taking part hold approved referrals and finished travel paperwork, and say the crossings still stop them from leaving.