Israeli commandos combing through Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital: military official

November 16, 2023

Israeli commandos are searching through every building and every floor of Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital and new information is emerging all the time, an Israeli military official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. “The operation is shaped by our understanding that there is well-hidden terrorist infrastructure in the complex,” the official said, declining to be Continue Reading

Fear grows for patients inside Gaza hospital, cut off after Israelis arrive

November 16, 2023

Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza’s biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered, Reuters reports. Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli soldiers had removed dead bodies from the […]Continue Reading

Bombarded twice in Gaza, 4-year-old Ahmed loses parents, then legs

November 15, 2023

The boy keeps asking for his parents, and he wants to get up and walk, but his parents are dead and his legs have been amputated, Reuters reports. That is the plight of Ahmed Shabat, a four-year-old boy whose parents were killed when their home in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern corner […]Continue Reading

Canadian PM Trudeau tells Israel killing of babies in Gaza must end

November 15, 2023

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip must end, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since war against Hamas broke out over a month ago, Reuters reports Canada has maintained that Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas after […]Continue Reading

Myanmar rebels say dozens of junta forces surrender, captured

November 15, 2023

Dozens of members of the Myanmar security forces have surrendered or been captured, a rebel group said on Wednesday, as a coordinated offensive by insurgent groups battling the junta gathers pace in several parts of the country, Reuters reports. At least 28 policemen gave up their weapons and surrendered to the Arakan Army (AA), while […]Continue Reading

Myanmar soldiers flee to India after clash with rebels

November 14, 2023

At least 43 Myanmar soldiers have surrendered to police in the Indian state of Mizoram a day after heavy clashes with anti-junta rebel fighters, an Indian police official said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Anti-junta fighters in Myanmar’s Chin state were aiming to gain control of part of a porous border with India, after tasting early […]Continue Reading

Rohingya among 80 freed from Australian detention

November 13, 2023

Eighty people have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional, the immigration minister said Monday, AP reports. A member of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority won freedom Wednesday when the court outlawed his indefinite detention. Australia has been unable to Continue Reading

Israel offers Gaza hospital evacuation for babies but fighting rages on

November 12, 2023

Israel’s army said it was ready to evacuate babies from Gaza’s largest hospital on Sunday, but Palestinian officials said people inside were still trapped, with two newborns dead and dozens at risk from a power outage amid intense fighting nearby, Reuters reports. Al-Shifa and other hospitals in northern Gaza, the focus of Israel’s month-old war […]Continue Reading

More Myanmar junta bases fall in Shan fighting: MNDAA

November 12, 2023

On Friday night it said it seized four Kokang outposts and another four positions near Xi Yuin Ji village between Laukkai and Chin Shwe Haw on Saturday morning, The Irrawaddy reports. MNDAA said that on Saturday morning it fired a rocket into the military’s northeastern headquarters in Lashio. The Brotherhood Alliance claims to have taken […]Continue Reading

Myanmar fighter jet crashes, rebels claim responsibility

November 12, 2023

A Myanmar fighter jet has crashed during clashes between the military and an insurgent group, both sides said, in another setback for a junta facing the biggest challenge to its rule since a coup in 2021. The jet went down over Kayah State in eastern Myanmar, near the border with Thailand, on Saturday during fighting […]Continue Reading