Topic: Beit Lahia

Shell-shocked Gaza children flock to martial arts

Salih al-Masri, a skinny nine-year-old in a red martial arts uniform, grits his teeth as he stands barefoot on shards of broken glass and recalls his family's plight during the war in Gaza. "Haunted by what they saw during the massive ...

Israeli warplanes strike Gaza Strip: witnesses

Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes Monday on the Gaza Strip that caused damage but no injuries, witnesses and Palestinian security sources said.An Israeli F-16 fired two missiles against a police post near the southern city of Khan Yunis, sparking a ...
For Amnesty International the evidence was all there: a hole in a burnt-out ceiling, fragments of a shell -- and a substance that bursts into flames at the slightest contact.White phosphorus is an incendiary weapon, but in civilian areas it is banned ...
A large explosion in northern Gaza on Tuesday killed an eight-year-old boy and his six-year-old sister and injured five other children, Palestinian health officials said.Witnesses said a group of children stumbled upon a homemade rocket or a mortar shell and began ...