Gaza City, October 14 (RHC)-- Hospital morgues in Gaza are being overwhelmed by the number of people killed in Israeli air attacks, so ice cream trucks and refrigerated food vehicles are being used to store bodies.  “The hospital’s board of directors have no way to know if we’re going to be bombed or not.  But they’re sure that we are doing the right thing.... More


Gaza City, October 14 (RHC)-- Dr Nisreen al-Shorafa has gotten barely 10 hours of sleep over the past seven days.   The 30-year-old surgeon runs the emergency room at Al Awda Hospital in Tal al-Zaatar, between Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, and she cannot recall a time when she has worked harder.... More


United Nations, October 14 (RHC)-- The United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians has said water has now become a “matter of life and death” for people in the Gaza Strip after Israel cut their water supplies.  The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Saturday that more than two million people are now at risk as water runs out.... More


Caracas, October 14 (RHC)-- The president of the news multiplatform teleSUR, journalist Patricia Villegas, has rejected the statements made by the head of the U.S. Southern Command, Laura Richardson, against the media.... More


Ramallah, October 14 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounced on Saturday that the Gaza Strip is subjected to genocide and demanded pressure on Israel to stop its bombings against that territory, where more than 1,800 people died in eight days.... More


Gaza City, October 14 (RHC)-- The death toll from Israel’s savage attacks on the Gaza Strip continues to rise a week after the regime launched its brutal onslaught on the besieged Palestinian territory.  The Health Ministry in Gaza has announced that at least 1,537 Palestinians, including 500 children, and 276 women have been killed in six days of incessant Israeli bombardment of the blockaded territory.... More


Ramallah, October 14 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers killed at least two Palestinians on Thursday in an attack on a funeral procession for four Palestinians killed one day earlier by masked settlers and Israeli soldiers. ... More


Gaza City, October 13 (RHC)-- Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids while trying to flee the northern Gaza Strip, according to Hamas officials, after the Israeli military ordered more than one million residents to evacuate in a demand rejected by the United Nations as “impossible”.... More


New York, October 13 (RHC)-- Human Rights Watch has confirmed reports of Israel firing white phosphorus munitions during attacks on Gaza and along its border with Lebanon.  ... More


Amman, October 13 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Jordan on Friday for talks with King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. ... More


Moscow, October 13 (RHC)-- "U.S. unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela are part of a system of sanctions, extortion and blackmail," Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said Thursday from Moscow.... More


Tel Aviv, October 13 (RHC)-- Israel’s former defense minister, the opposition party leader and retired general Benny Gantz, said he would join an emergency wartime government and a war cabinet led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and current Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. ... More


Havana, October 13 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of people have poured onto the streets around the world in support of the Palestinians as Israel prepares for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.... More


Geneva, October 13 (RHC)-- Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza amounts to a “death sentence” for vulnerable hospital patients, the World Health Organization has warned.  WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said health authorities in Gaza have advised that it is impossible to evacuate vulnerable hospital patients within 24 hours as ordered by Israel’s military.... More


Gaza City, October 13 (RHC)-- Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as Israel continues to pummel the besieged Palestinian territory with air and artillery attacks for a sixth straight day, reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble. ... More


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