United Nations, December 13 (RHC)-- The United Nations says only 13 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially functional as Israeli occupation forces are targeting medical centers and staff amid heavily bombardment of the besieged territory.  The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report on Tuesday that the services provided to patients in operational hospitals are “limited” as they have run out of bed capacity.... More

Ramallah, December 13 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have carried out deadly raids in the occupied West Bank while shelling and bombing many areas in the Gaza Strip in advance of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting to discuss an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”.... More

Rafah, December 12 (RHC)-- UN Security Council envoys have spoken of unimaginable suffering and urged an end to the war in the Gaza Strip as they visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, the only entry point for aid into the besieged territory.... More

Brussels, December 12 (RHC)-- Italy, France and Germany have called on the European Union to impose sanctions against the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and its supporters in solidarity with Israel.  In a joint letter to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the foreign ministers of the three biggest countries of the European Union demanded that the EU take “all necessary measures against Hamas and its supporters.”... More

Washington, December 12 (RHC)-- Israel used U.S.-supplied internationally banned white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon, according to a Washington Post investigation.   “A journalist working for The Post found remnants of three 155-millimeter artillery rounds fired into Dheira, near the Lebanese border with Israel, which wounded at least nine civilians and incinerated at least four homes, residents said,” the newspaper said.... More

Brasilia, December 12 (RHC)-- The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has presented a support program for the homeless population, as part of which it decreed the regulation of the so-called Father Júlio Lancellotti Law, which prohibits hostile constructions in free spaces for public use.... More

Rafah, December 12 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes have struck a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in a populated refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.   The complex, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), hosts hundreds of displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp.... More