The bureau chief of Al Jazeera television in the Strip, who lost his wife and three of his sons in bombings, tells EL PAÍS that Israel is ‘deliberately killing journalists in Gaza’ to prevent them reporting on the war
Crowdfunding initiatives to pay intermediaries who facilitate the departure of people in the enclave to Egypt have multiplied under the threat of the Israeli invasion of Rafah
Laetitia Kasongo / Beatriz Lecumberri|Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Madrid|
The outbreak of a new wave of violence in the east of the country has forced thousands to flee to already overcrowded camps where a lack of food and drinking water is raising fears of an explosion of diseases
After more than four months of bombing, Palestinian women in the enclave are suffering Cesarean sections without anesthesia, abortions, and infections, while struggling to care for their babies and fighting a daily battle to wash or find a sanitary pad
Only 14 of the 36 hospitals in the Strip are partially operational, according to the WHO. A Médecins Sans Frontières doctor and a medical student share their frustration at the magnitude of the emergency
The Palestinian human rights advocate, who survived an Israeli air strike on his home, is confident the U.N. court will rule in favor of ending military operations in the Strip, and urges Europe to call for ‘an end to the genocide’
After three and a half months of attacks on the Strip, more than 25,000 Palestinians — at least 70% of them women and children — have been killed. Four people tell EL PAÍS about their desolation and describe the daily life of a devastated territory
The international organization found the company restricts or eliminates posts and comments in a ‘systemic and global’ manner and requests a review of its policies
Gaza, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan… The list of conflicts and crises has never been longer or more dire. In the Gaza Strip, at least 5,000 children have been killed in just two months, with thousands more left orphaned and over 3,500 women and children still missing under the rubble, according to the U.N.
The number of patients in this small country who suffer from the infectious disease exceeds 2,000 a year, proportionally seven times more than the European average
Every 10 minutes a child is violently killed in the territory, according to an estimate by the NGO Save the Children, in an area where four out of five kids already had symptoms of depression, fear and grief
Palestinians who stayed in the north and those who moved south of the enclave describe their increasing helplessness since the communications blackout on Friday night, when Israel’s ground invasion began
On Friday, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Foundation presented an award to an organization that researches treatments for neglected diseases. The group’s director says that combating these diseases will benefit the entire world, not just the countries that currently suffer from them
Several hundred worshipers are taking refuge in two churches, which have been stock piled with supplies. One of them, however, was hit by an Israeli attack
The humanitarian crisis is deepening in the south of the Strip, where people fled after Israel’s ultimatum. But many are finding that they are not safe there either
Taliban restrictions and poverty are causing a mental health crisis, with families feeling increasingly forced to marry off their daughters to make ends meet, or to prevent them being forced to wed extremists
More than 80% of European and East and Southeast Asian ships end up being dismantled on three Asian beaches to save costs, evading international regulations, in a process that is dangerous for the people and the environment, denounces Human Rights Watch
There is no evidence that Washington has compensated former detainees tortured in Iraq, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch, which is calling on authorities to open a pathway for survivors to file claims
The lungs of Indians, Congolese and Bangladeshis are in worse condition than those of a person who has smoked for years. The UN wants to create a global fund to combat an issue that has become the world’s biggest public health problem
A study by Doctors Without Borders and others warns of the proliferation of complications suffered by women following a terminated pregnancy in conflict-affected regions
Dorothy Estrada Tanck, co-author of the recent UN report on the situation of women in Afghanistan, trusts that ‘gender apartheid’ will become a crime against humanity and that those who instigate it will be held accountable
Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza — the main political opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame — accuses her country’s government of ‘silencing opposition’ and focusing on ‘whitewashing its international image’
Pneumonia is a silent pandemic that causes more deaths than the coronavirus, but receives neither the attention nor funding necessary to combat it. Around 700,000 children under the age of five die every year from it, mostly in poor countries