PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES – The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday that Israeli forces were besieging two hospitals in southern Gaza, days after the army began targeting Hamas in and around the territory's biggest medical center. Israel has mounted several raids at and near hospitals in Gaza since the war began...

The Group's profit increased by 68% YoY to $13.52 million.

"What type of world do we live in when people cannot get food and water, or where people who cannot even walk are not able to receive care? "What type of world do we live in when health workers are at risk of being bombed as they carry out their...

In the occupied West Bank, where violence has soared alongside the war in Gaza, an Israeli raid continued into a second day around Tulkarem, an official said. Palestinian health officials reported a sixth person had been killed in the operation. Tensions flared further in the wider region, following Pakistani strikes...

Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN aid agency OCHA's office in the occupied Palestinian territories, described how detailed coordination was required with a network of checkpoints, and "the Israelis have systematically, or quasi-systematically, refused" to let them through. In recent days, he said the agency had had three missions...

Youssef Salama, the 68-year-old former minister of religious affairs in the Palestinian Authority, was killed in a strike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency and the ministry reported. Considered close to Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas, Salama served as...

Geneva, Switzerland -- The WHO on Wednesday said that a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was possible but those with influence were not doing enough to secure it, expressing concern at Gaza's "crippled" health system. The World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there was a high chance of fighting...

Dubai, UAE-- At least 15 patients from Gaza arrived in the UAE to receive medical treatment in the UAE's hospitals. The arrival of patients from Gaza is part of the initiative directed by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE President, to provide medical treatment for 1,000 children. The UAE...

The announcement came shortly after Israel agreed to a US request to allow two fuel trucks a day into Gaza, following a UN warning that the shortages had halted aid deliveries and put people at risk of starvation. The situation was dire at the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza,...

Youssef Abu Rish told AFP seven premature babies and 27 patients had died in recent days in Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, the Palestinian territory's largest. The hospital has been at the center of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The Red Cross called for medical facilities and workers in war-ravaged Gaza to be protected, warning the health system there had "reached a point of no return". The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that its teams in recent days had distributed critical supplies to medical structures across...

Antonio Guterres, speaking at an economic forum in China, condemned the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people as "acts of terror" that could not be justified. "But those attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," Guterres said. He urged Israel to...

Amira, 44, and her children have moved to the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in the southern district of Khan Yunis. "Our bodies itch all over. It has been a week since we could take a shower," she told AFP as she prepared sandwiches for her children with some loaves...

Two subsidiaries of the Qatari firm open two branches.

According to lawyers and medics, rocket fire on residential areas of one of Darfur's main cities and shelling near hospitals in North Kordofan state killed at least 20 civilians. The doctors' union said that shells had struck near four hospitals killing four civilians. In the South Darfur rocket fired killed...

Mosul, Iraq -- Medical charity Doctors Without Borders announced Wednesday the suspension of "vital" medical activities in two hospitals in the war-scarred city of Mosul, blaming Iraq's bureaucracy of delaying the delivery of supplies. "Essential medical activities have been suspended at two health facilities... after stocks of medicines and supplies ran...

The current healthcare expenditure in the Gulf Cooperation Council region is expected to reach $135 billion in 2027, implying an annualized growth rate of 5.4 percent.

The company's revenue grew 17.8 percent year on year.

The kingdom will need an investment of $35.6bn for nearly 20,000 new hospital beds by 2030, according to Colliers. High land costs can be an impediment to realizing the goal.

The two rival administrations competing for control of Libya have exchanged blame for the flare-up in violence killing 23 people as fears mount that a political crisis could touch off a major new armed conflict. Small arms fire and explosions rocked several districts of the capital overnight and into Sunday.

A head-on collision between two passenger trains injured 95 people on Monday morning in the south of the Tunisian capital, emergency services said.

The outages come less than two days after a fuel tank exploded in the village of Al-Tleil, scorching people clamouring to fill petrol that the army was distributing.

Unicef has estimated that water supply in Lebanon may collapse altogether over the next month and a half

Hospitals in Lebanon have warned they are running out of fuel to operate life-saving equipment as power cuts continue

Official data put Covid toll in Iran at 84,000 Tehran, nine other cities highest-risk places Iran has struggled to keep the Covid pandemic under control, and now it must prepare for a worse case of the virus hitting them. President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said that Iran will be hit...