An Israeli evacuation order has displaced at least 190,000 people in the cities of the Gaza Strip this week, a UN official said on Friday, Anadolu news agency reported. “Our humanitarian partners estimate that more than 190,000 Palestinians have been...

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) resumed, Thursday, partial operations at the Al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, Anadolu Agency reports. The medical facility had been out of service for over a month following an Israeli army raid amid...

Thousands of doses of vaccines against childhood diseases including polio and measles have begun entering the Gaza Strip to help deal with a growing health emergency in the besieged enclave, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday, Reuters reports....

The World Health Organisation is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said today, Reuters reported. “While no cases of...

The United Arab Emirates has dispatched an ambassador to Damascus for the first time since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, Syria’s state media reported today, in a new signal of Syria’s warming ties with the Arab region, Reuters reports. Incoming...

Italy has decided to appoint an ambassador to Syria “to turn a spotlight” on the country, its foreign minister said today, making it the first G7 nation to relaunch its diplomatic mission in Damascus since civil war consumed the nation, Reuters reports....