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MSF says facing 'critical' medical supply shortage in Gaza

Aid group Doctors Without Borders has warned of "critical" shortages of medical supplies in Gaza, with no resupply for more than two months as fighting between Israel and Hamas wears on.

The group known by its French initials MSF is "facing critical shortages of many things like gauze, gloves... things like that," Amber Alayyan, who works on the Palestinian territories for its French branch, told AFP on Tuesday.

Wounded Palestinians receive care at an MSF clinic in Gaza's southern city of Rafah in April

Israeli army orders evacuation of battle-torn Gaza City

Israel's army dropped thousands of leaflets over war-torn Gaza City on Wednesday urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive through the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory.

The leaflets, addressed to "everyone in Gaza City", set out designated escape routes and warned that the urban area, which had a pre-war population of over half a million, would "remain a dangerous combat zone".

Smoke rises over Gaza on July 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas

Turkish volunteer fights to save fire-scarred sheep

Lying on her back, the sheep struggled as the man approached to bandage her udders, which had been burned in a fire last month that killed hundreds of sheep in southeast Turkey.

Since the fire, Hasan Kizil has been driving on hilly roads in his van, treating traumatised animals and convincing farmers not to sell injured sheep to the slaughterhouse.

The blaze ripped through the southeastern cities of Diyarbakir and Mardin on June 22, claiming 15 lives. Experts pointed to faulty wiring as a possible cause.

Hasan Kizil volunteers to treat animals injured in a fire

A Tunisian village's fight for running water

In front of a small mosque in central Tunisia, women queue at one of their village's last water sources, a pipe meant for crop irrigation, but now a lifeline in the parched area.

"We just need something to drink," said Ribh Saket, 56, under the punishing summer sun as she placed a jerrycan beneath a makeshift tap hooked into the water supply.

Like its neighbour Algeria and large areas of the Mediterranean region, Tunisia suffers from "alert drought conditions", according to the European Drought Observatory.

'Most families come to fetch water while we're working, and sometimes we can't do both,' said Djaouher Kammoun, a 26-year-old farmer

'No vegetables or meat': pangs of hunger stalk Gazans

Yussef Jaber dreams of drinking a mint tea with a lot of sugar, but instead he is confronting hunger more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

There is barely any food left in the north of the besieged Palestinian territory, said the 24-year-old in Jabalia. And the price of what little reaches residents there is skyrocketing.

"There is nothing for us except some flour and tinned goods that make us sick," he said.

"We have no vegetables to cook or meat. We need everything."

Girls walk with water containers past destroyed buildings and open sewage in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 8, 2024

Palestinian health ministry says boy killed by Israeli troops

The Palestinian health ministry said Tuesday that Israeli troops shot and killed a 13-year-old boy near the occupied West Bank's main city of Ramallah.

The Israeli army also bulldozed the main street in the Nur Shams refugee camp in a 15-hour raid, officials said, highlighting a spike in tensions since the Gaza war erupted on October 7.

Ghassan Gharib Zahran "was martyred by occupation bullets" at Deir Abu Mishal, near Ramallah, a health ministry statement said.

The Israeli army told AFP that "terrorists threw stones at Israeli vehicles in the Deir Abu Mishal area".

13-year-old Ghassan Gharib Zahran was buried within hours of being killed during an Israeli raid in an occupied West Bank village

Israeli arrests daunt Palestinian journalists in West Bank

Within days of Hamas's October 7 attack, Palestinian photojournalist Moath Amarneh was arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and thrown into prison.

As the Israel-Hamas war raged in the Gaza Strip, Amarneh spent nearly nine months behind bars until his release on Tuesday, though he was never charged with an offence or put on trial.

Including Amarneh, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented 51 Palestinian media workers detained in Gaza and the West Bank by Israeli authorities since the start of the war.

Palestinian journalist Moath Amarneh's mother Fatima next to his portraits at home in the West Bank's Dheisheh camp

Deadly strike hits Gaza school as heavy battles displace Palestinians

A deadly strike hit a school turned shelter in southern Gaza on Tuesday as Israeli forces in the war-ravaged territory's main city pushed on with a major offensive that has again displaced Palestinians.

A hospital source in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza said at least 29 people were killed when the school was hit in nearby Abasan.

The Israeli military said its air force had carried out a strike in the area targeting a "terrorist" and would review the incident.

A body is wrapped in a white sheet after Israeli bombardment at the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024

UN 'appalled' by Israel evacuation orders as Gaza battles rage on

The United Nations protested on Tuesday over the latest mass evacuation orders issued by Israel in Gaza as the army said it had killed dozens of militants in "close-quarters combat" in its latest offensive in Gaza City.

Israel extended its evacuation warning to cover most of Gaza's main city on Monday and intense fighting erupted.

Israel has now issued three evacuation orders for Gaza City and one for the south of the Palestinian territory since June 27 in a new stepping up of its military operations. The UN says tens of thousands of civilians have fled.

Gaza City districts have faced intense bombing in a new Israeli offensive

Gunning for the Games: Yemeni shooter Yasameen Al-Raimi trains without a range

Standing by the faded blue wall of an empty sports hall in Sanaa, Yasameen Al-Raimi raises her air pistol and pauses, studying the target 10 metres away.

Squeezing the trigger, the Yemeni Olympic hope fires a metal pellet through the middle of the paper square, rebounding with a clang off the metal plate behind.

Raimi, in black hijab, safety glasses and yellow ear protectors, is training for the Paris Olympics, one of the biggest competitions of her life.

Yemeni air pistol shooter Yasameen al-Raimi trains ahead of the Paris Olympics in Sanaa on July 2, 2024