Fatalities and Injuries

[JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip] – Surrounded by mountains of rubble that were once their homes, two dozen children sat on a rainbow-colored blanket and drew with crayons. They quickly...
By Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, Gaza City
Stories of 10 of the 280 or more children who died during the three-week military operation
[GAZA CITY, 23 January 2009 (AFP)] - Some 200,000 Palestinian children will return to UN-run schools on the Gaza Strip on Saturday after the 22-day Israeli assault on the Islamist...
Israel insists its use of white phosphorus shells during its three-week campaign in Gaza was not illegal. Foreign ministry spokesman Ygal Palmor said an internal investigation so...
[22 January 2009] – Senior United Nations officials today began their assessment of the humanitarian needs in Gaza, getting a first-hand look at the damage and destruction...
Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu is a little girl with a captivating smile to melt the heart of the most hardened correspondent. When we first came across her in the hospital in the...
The United Nations' humanitarian chief has begun a tour of the Gaza Strip to examine the extent of the devastation left behind by a three-week Israeli offensive. John Holmes...
Throughout the recent war in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) insisted that it took extraordinary care to spare civilians. But it then prevented journalists and human rights...
On 1 January, Israeli F16s launched three missiles onto the house of Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan, killing him and 15 members of his family, including 11 children.