Posted by: John Phoenix
Gaza’s child amputees: Families struggle to access rehabilitation services
Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025
- 20h ago (22:50 GMT)Thanks for joining usThis live page is now closed.To read more about the United Nations General Assembly’s approval for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address its upcoming gathering in New York, go here.Watch Fault Lines‘ investigation into the disappearance of Dr Abu Safia here.For more context on the conflict, read more about the US’s sixth veto of a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire here.
- Displaced Palestinians describe ordeal as they attempt to reach Gaza’s southAl Jazeera spoke to displaced Palestinians on Salah al-Din Street, which appeared empty due to safety concerns despite Israeli claims it was open for forced evacuations from Gaza City, where Israeli forces are intensifying attacks.Abdallah Natat said the army had blocked the road with cement, forcing people to take the coastal al-Rashid Street on foot.He said his family had left their belongings in a trailer and kept walking south, adding that he started his journey at 4am.“I’m still on the street … we slept on the street tonight. The rockets and shelling have become a daily routine,” he told Al Jazeera.His relative, Ahmed Natat, standing with his child, described a nine-hour journey.“Cars don’t pass – we have to walk,” he said. “This child started crying a lot because I couldn’t feed him or put him to sleep,” he said, adding that his family also spent the night on the street.“The occupation army wants you to hate life. It doesn’t want you to live. Can’t the occupation army create safe areas for us to live in?”He added: “The situation is very difficult … We are all like this.
- 20h ago (22:30 GMT)Israeli army detains four foreigners at Jordan border attempting to cross into IsraelThe Israeli forces have detained four foreign nationals who were crossing the border from Jordan into Israel in the Yarmouk River area, according to the Israeli media.The four were taken into custody for questioning, according to the reports.The suspects were spotted by soldiers operating surveillance cameras, The Times of Israel reported.Click here to share on social media
- 21h ago (22:15 GMT)UNRWA says 90 percent of facilities in Gaza destroyed or damagedAdnan Abu Hasna, an UNRWA spokesperson, has told Al Jazeera that 90 percent of the agency’s facilities in Gaza have been completely or partially destroyed after more than 300 Israeli attacks targeted its schools.Abu Hasna also said that 6,000 trucks loaded with aid are waiting for permission to enter Gaza, warning that the humanitarian catastrophe is deepening and that “no family in Gaza can afford the cost of displacement again”.“There are also no places to set up a single tent,” he warned, as thousands continue to flee intense bombardment in Gaza’s north.Click here to share on social media
- 21h ago (22:00 GMT)‘Regional killer of journalists’: CPJ slams Israel after deadly Yemen strikesThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel’s September 10 strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killed 31 journalists and media workers, making it the deadliest single attack on the press since the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines.CPJ said the strikes destroyed printing presses, archives, and newsrooms, wiping out one of Yemen’s most important historical records and leaving some victims’ bodies buried under rubble. A child was among the dead, and 22 journalists were injured.“Since October 7, 2023, Israel has emerged as a regional killer of journalists, with repeated incidents in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and now Yemen confirming Israel’s longstanding pattern of labelling journalists as terrorists or propagandists to justify their killings,” said CPJ Regional Program Director Sara Qudah.The group accused Israel of expanding its “war on journalism” beyond Gaza and called the attacks a grave violation of international law, warning that journalists across the region are now at risk.Click here to share on social media
- 21h ago (21:45 GMT)‘Greenlight for genocide’: Amnesty slams US veto of Gaza ceasefire resolutionAmnesty International has condemned the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and unrestricted humanitarian aid.This is the sixth time the US has vetoed such a resolution, Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said, calling it “morally reprehensible” and accusing Washington of “greenlighting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”.Callamard said the veto comes as Israel unleashes “an unprecedented campaign of annihilation” in Gaza City, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee to unsafe areas in the south and accelerating the “erasure of the ancient city, its heritage, and Palestinian identity”.She warned that the US, by continuing to arm and back Israel, risks complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, and urged all states to impose an immediate ban on arms transfers, surveillance equipment, and trade or investments that contribute to Israeli crimes.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget.
- Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in West Bank’s QalqilyaA young Palestinian man has been shot and wounded by Israeli forces in the northern area of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources cited by Wafa news agency. He was taken to Qalqilya Hospital for treatment, Wafa said, without specifying the nature of his injury.
- The incident comes amid a surge in Israeli military raids across the West Bank, which frequently result in injuries, arrests, and damage to property.
- 22h ago (21:15 GMT)Gaza Civil Defence says 450,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza CityGaza’s Civil Defence agency says 450,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza City since Israel began its offensive to seize the territory’s largest urban centre, which has a population of about one million.“The number of citizens displaced from Gaza to the south has reached 450,000 people since the start of the military operation on Gaza City in August,” said Mohamed al-Mughayir, an official of the rescue force.The Israeli military, which has called on residents to evacuate as it presses its ground assault, says it estimated “approximately 480,000” people had fled the city.