The hospital was established in 2006 to treat victims of the sectarian violence that erupted in Iraq in the aftermath of the US-led invasion, but has since expanded its mission.

There were no reports of casualties in the strike and the Israeli military told AFP they were looking into the incident. The civil defense agency in the Hamas-run territory said Israel's air force targeted a building of the Al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital, in...

Marwan al-Hamas, head of field hospitals in Gaza, confirmed the death. He said it brought to five the total number of children "who have died due to severe cold" in recent weeks. "There is no electricity. The water is cold and there is no gas, heating or food," said Yahya...

The World Health Organization said the operation had put the "last major health facility in north Gaza out of service". "Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid," it added in a statement on X.

North Gaza's last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organization said Tuesday with the Israel-Hamas war now in its eighth month. Hospital officials said Israeli forces had fired on the facilities and that snipers had been deployed near one of them....

UN agencies have warned repeatedly that northern Gaza is on the verge of famine and called it a man-made crisis because aid lorries are backed up on the Egypt-Gaza border awaiting long checks by Israeli officials. Israel has denied responsibility.

Jerusalem--A top Israeli commander has said troops will continue their operation at Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa until the last Hamas fighter is "in their hands". Israeli forces launched the operation in and around Al-Shifa hospital on Monday, saying senior Hamas operatives were based at the sprawling compound. Days of heavy...

Ismail Haniyeh said that the Israeli actions at Al-Shifa Medical Complex "confirm their intent to obstruct the recovery of life in Gaza and dismantle essential aspects of human existence." He said deliberate targeting of government officials in Gaza illustrates "their efforts to sow chaos".

Jenin, Palestinian Territories - A climate of fear pervades a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where patients and doctors are reeling from last month's deadly raid by Israeli agents disguised as medics. At the rehabilitation ward at Jenin's Ibn Sina hospital, two patients recalled hearing the screams...

Palestinian Territories -- The health ministry in Gaza said five patients died Friday due to lack of oxygen at one of the war-torn Palestinian territory's few operating hospitals that had been raided by Israeli forces. "A fifth patient at Nasser hospital was martyred as a result of the stopping of...

The raid came after days of intense fighting between troops and Hamas around the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis -- one of the largest medical sites in southern Gaza, and one of the few hospitals that are still operational in the territory. The health ministry in Gaza reported that thousands...

Emergency medical team coordinator Sean Casey said that during some five weeks he spent in Gaza, he saw hospital patients "every day with severe burns, with open fractures waiting hours or days" for treatment. "They would often ask me for food or water -- that demonstrates the level of desperation...

Israeli forces, according to the Gaza health ministry, fired at "patient rooms" and arrested staff at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza City during a "siege" that lasted several days. The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said the same day that the hospital director and about 70 other medical staff were...

"The occupation (Israeli) forces have tightened the siege and the targeting of Kamal Adwan hospital, firing at patient rooms and courtyards," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement "We fear the death of 12 children in pediatric care who are already deprived of milk and are without life support...

The WHO said the head of the biggest hospital in Gaza was arrested on Wednesday along with five other health workers, while they were taking part in a UN mission to evacuate patients. The Israeli forces detained three medical personnel from the Palestine Red Crescent Society and three from the...

An official in the Hamas-run health ministry specified to AFP that one other doctor and two nurses had been detained, as well as the hospital director. In a statement, Hamas said it "strongly denounces" the arrest of Salmiya and his colleagues, calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross...

Dubai, UAE--The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Monday 12 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the north of the Palestinian territory. The 12, including wounded patients and their companions, "were killed and dozens wounded as a result of the Israeli occupation targeting...

The UN health agency said that it led an assessment mission to the hospital and determined it was a "death zone", calling for a full evacuation. It said that the agency is developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families, adding that 291 patients...

As UN warns of an increasingly desperate situation for 2.4m Palestinians and pleaded for a ceasefire, the first delivery of fuel arrived from Egypt on late Friday. At the same time, Israel carried on its offensive, combing Gaza's largest hospital. It has vowed to "crush" Hamas in response to the...

UNICEF's executive director Catherine Russell, on a rare visit to the Palestinian territory by a top UN official, said she witnessed devastating scenes and urged Israel and Hamas to "stop this horror".

A journalist inside the hospital who is collaborating with AFP said the stench of decomposing bodies was everywhere in the facility. The situation in Gaza's other hospitals is also dire, with the UN saying 22 of 36 are not functional due to lack of generator fuel, damage and combat.

Dubai, UAE - Eighteen hospitals in the Gaza Strip were forced to end their work in the Gaza Strip amid heavy Israeli shelling and air raids, the healthcare authority of the Palestinian exclave has told Al Jazeera. "A total of 18 hospitals, including eight state-run facilities, had to stop their...

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, King Abdullah said that Jordan's air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to Jordanian's field hospital in Gaza. Terming it as "our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza", he said the kingdom will always be there...

After discussing with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu the idea of "humanitarian pauses" to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas and to allow aid into Gaza, he arrived in Amman where he will also join a meeting of foreign ministers of five Arab countries to be attended by a...

Israeli prime minister said ceasefire would amount to surrendering to the Gaza Strip's rulers Hamas and said that the international community must demand the captives "be freed immediately, unconditionally". Netanyahu also told a press conference that other countries must give more help in the struggle to free more than 230...

Dubai, UAE--The New York Times's Gaza hospital blast investigation does not conclude in any way who is responsible for the deadly explosion at the al-Ahli hospital on October 17. Nevertheless, they assert that the projectile seen in the Al Jazeera live footage, cited by many as central to the investigation,...

Describing the entry of a few dozens trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt as "not enough", EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that it was important to send in the basic things that make water and electricity supply being restored. He made the comments ahead of a...

The health ministry of the besieged enclave said between 200 and 300 people displaced by 10 days of heavy bombardment were killed in "occupation (Israeli) strikes" at the Ahli Arab hospital in cental Gaza. "Hundreds of victims are still under the rubble," a statement said, calling it a "war crime".

The UN health agency said in a statement that it strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 people in northern Gaza. Israel has warned Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza ahead of an expected ground offensive against Hamas, one week after the deadliest...

ABU DHABI, UAE -  UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Chad Rashid Saeed Al Shamsi on Sunday opened a field hospital in Amdjarass city. The UAE built the hospital in Chad to support Sudanese refugees. The initiative is the result of joint cooperation between three humanitarian entities in the UAE...

Tehran, Iran--Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has claimed that health tourism in the country has attracted patients from neighboring countries and even Central Asian states who prefer to get medical care in Iran rather than in Europe. Raisi made the remarks on Friday as he inaugurated Ghadir Major Hospital in the...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The World Health Organization (WHO) affirmed it is likely to support Iraq in the localization of its pharmaceutical industry, local media reports say.WHO official Ahmed Zueiten, said, “I spoke with Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani about the partnership between Iraq and global health.” He said, "The organization...

TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran has announced more than 100 arrests nationwide over the mystery poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls, charging that the unidentified alleged perpetrators may have links with "hostile" groups. In the wave of cases since late November, schoolgirls have suffered fainting, nausea, shortness of breath and other symptoms after...

In the latest rail tragedy to hit Egypt, two people were killed and many more injured at Qalyub north of Cairo. According to the country's health ministry, the injured are in a stable condition. An earlier toll provided by the ministry said that one person died and 16 were wounded,...

In one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the IS this year, some 53 people were killed on Friday in an ambush in central Syria. According to the director of Palmyra hospital, those killed were 46 civilians and seven soldiers. State television said that the slain were truffle hunting...

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian driver in West Bank, officials on both sides said, with the army saying the car had hit a soldier's leg before speeding off. Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda, 26, died from "a bullet wound to the head fired by the occupation (Israeli) soldiers in Hebron,"...

Queen Elizabeth II visited Aden in 1954. The war-torn Yemeni city's troubles are a reminder of Britain's complicated legacy in the Middle East.

The five-story building collapsed in the Ferdaws neighbourhood of Aleppo. Civil defence and local authorities evacuated residents from nearby buildings and began removing rubble, police commander Major General Deeb Deeb told SANA. The building collapsed due to "a lack of engineering foundations", SANA quoted Maad Medlaji, head of the Aleppo...

The hospital operator's profit jumps to $210m in H1 of 2022

The Kingdom is stepping forward and allowing the private firms to invest in healthcare infrastructure, Sandeep Sinha, Head of Healthcare Consulting - MENA at JLL, tells TRENDS.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has left the hospital one week after being admitted for tests, state media reported. Video broadcast by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) late Sunday showed the 86-year-old monarch walking out of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the coastal city of Jeddah, using a cane and...

On Sunday afternoon doctors performed a colonoscopy “and the result was sound”, the Saudi Press Agency later said.

King Salman entered King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the coastal city of Jeddah on Saturday ‘to conduct some medical examinations’.

Iraq is particularly vulnerable to climate change, having already witnessed record low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years.

Video shared from a children’s hospital in Mariupol hit by shelling showed a scene of complete devastation, with the wounded being evacuated, some on stretchers, past charred and burning carcasses of cars and a massive crater by the building.

In the stores and buses of Iraq masks are rare even as Covid-19 spreads widely, vaccines are viewed with suspicion and the sick see hospitals as a last resort.

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's rebel-held northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib region, the last Syrian...

Finland will give €2 million ($2.27 million) to the Palestinian Authority to support the payment of medical referrals to East Jerusalem hospitals.

A Jordanian court on Sunday sentenced to three years in jail the director of a state hospital over the deaths of 10 patients at the facility which treated coronavirus patients.

Fitaihi Holding Group, which owns part of IMC, has declared that it intends to sell the hospital’s shares in a public offering, following the company’s exit from Dubai’s Amanat.