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An armed gang has surrounded a hospital in Haiti trapping women and children before they were rescued by police, the boss of the medical facility has said. The gang was torching houses surrounding the Fontaine Hospital Centre in the capital of Port-au-Prince, preventing anybody from leaving, the medical director, Jose Ulysse, told the AP news

To see the column of people up close was quite something. Several hundred Palestinians, young and elderly, in a thin line facing south on the main north-south road that cuts down through Gaza. On a loudhailer, an Israeli soldier is issuing instructions in Arabic. They should move south, they are told, and they will be

Israel has launched an overnight raid on Gaza’s largest medical facility – al Shifa hospital – hours after the US backed claims it was being used by Hamas fighters. Israeli forces said they entered a “specified area” of the medical complex for a “precise and targeted” operation “against Hamas“. The raid came hours after the

Gaza’s hospitals have been a flashpoint of fighting, claims and counterclaims. Tens of thousands of people sought shelter in medical facilities after being driven from their homes by the risk of airstrikes. But many have fled elsewhere as hospitals ran out of fuel and power and the fighting circled closer. Al Shifa, the largest hospital

A huge operation is under way to rescue 40 construction workers trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel. The three-mile tunnel was being built in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand when it caved in at around 5.30am on Sunday due to a landslide. Rescuers have been working around the clock for two days to

Iceland is bracing for a volcanic eruption in the coming days after a series of earthquakes and evidence of hot magma flowing quickly underground. The fishing town of Grindavik, home to 3,000 people, has been ordered to evacuate amid concerns it could be destroyed by lava flows. Sky News takes a look at some of

Hamas has denied refusing an offer of fuel from Israel for Gaza’s biggest hospital, which the World Health Organisation says is “not functioning” due to bombing and gunfire. The al Shifa hospital’s last generator ran out of fuel at the weekend, leading to the deaths of three premature babies and nine other patients, according to

The chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross has given a harrowing account of an amputation his team performed at a hospital in southern Gaza in a video diary shared with Sky News. Dr Tom Potokar said his team had to amputate the hand of a six-year-old child with “very deep burn

Operational security is always tight when the most powerful political and military faction in Lebanon organises an event.  The details for Hezbollah’s annual Martyrs’ Day commemoration were provided an hour or so in advance and we found ourselves driving through a section of south Beirut that forms the Iran-backed organisation’s stronghold. We arrived at a

A newborn baby has died and dozens more are at risk at Gaza’s largest hospital after it ran out of power, Palestinian officials have said. Israeli troops have been closing in on al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which Israel says is a command centre for the Hamas militant group. Fighting near the hospital and

Israel is facing mounting international pressure – including from its main ally – to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip in the past five weeks now stands above 11,000, according to health officials in the territory. Israeli forces have been waging war on Hamas

Thousands of Palestinians are streaming onto Gaza’s only highway as they try to flee the combat zone in the north, after Israel announced a window for safe passage. It comes as Israeli forces struck near several hospitals in Gaza City as the military pushes further into dense urban neighbourhoods. Parents carried children in their arms

“Chess saved my life,” Kamila says. There is mischief in her eyes as she moves her queen in a piercing diagonal, opening up my crumbling defence. Checkmate is just moves away, a formality. Once a rising chess star in eastern Ukraine, Kamila Hryshchenko was forced to leave her home in Kramatorsk when the bombs started

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza neighbourhoods where Israeli ground forces have been battling Hamas militants. Fighting between Israel and Hamas has intensified in the north and in the capital of Gaza City – forcing thousands to flee to the south. Israeli strikes have pounded Gaza City overnight – and Israeli troops were

Three out of four army headquarters in each of Darfur’s state capitals have fallen to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan – pushing thousands of people further into peril. Among the thousands crossing the border into Chad so far this month to flee the violence are many mothers and children with no possessions, according

Hamas’s leaders are “dead men walking”, an Israeli military spokesman has warned, as the country claims its troops have advanced to the “heart” of Gaza City. Israel has continued to bombard the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave since the militant group’s attack on 7 October, which Israel says killed 1,400 people and left 240 civilians hostage in

A hotel room in Egypt where a British couple died was next door to a room that had been sprayed with chemicals to kill bed bugs only hours before their deaths, an inquest has heard. John Cooper, 69, and his wife Susan, 63, from Burnley in Lancashire died on 21 August 2018 in the Egyptian

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh broke down in tears during a cabinet meeting as he recounted the story of a mother whose children were buried under the rubble in Gaza. Mr Shtayyeh struggled to speak during the Palestinian Authority’s meeting yesterday as he described how children write their names on their own bodies so their

The second in command of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has hinted the militia could be dragged into a more intense conflict with Israel if it does not halt its attacks on Gaza. In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Naim Qassem said the group questioned global support of Israel’s military action in Gaza. “How does America and

Gaza lost communications in its third total outage of the conflict so far, as Israel’s military said it had divided the Palestinian territory into two. Israeli media reported the country’s troops are expected to enter Gaza City within 48 hours, having encircled the area. Strong explosions were seen in northern Gaza overnight, with the conflict