The mineral, once widely-used, releases toxic fibres into the air when disturbed that can cling to the lungs and cause cancer.

NEW YORK: UN spokesman Stphane Dujarric said Wednesday night that the UN humanitarian aid operations in Gaza can only be conducted in accordance with the principles of humanity, neutrality, and independence, Palestine News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported

Israel had previously denied its troops were responsible for the killing of a UN worker with tank fire on 19 March.

Twenty-one people are reportedly killed in two separate strikes in the northern town of Jabalia.

Gazan civilians are losing their fear of Hamas, openly criticising the group on the streets and online.

Palestinian Authority president says that Hamas has given Israel "excuses" to continue the Gaza war.

Three thousand names were removed from an official list of those killed in Israel's offensive.

Egyptian and Qatari mediators suggest a truce of up to seven years and a permanent end to the war.

An Israeli military report said "professional failures" led to the killing of the 15 rescue workers

Fourteen emergency workers and a UN worker were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in Gaza last month

The BBC joins a GP in Gaza as she sees dozens of patients, struggling to treat them with a dwindling supply of drugs.

Protesters, angry at the war in Gaza, have claimed KFC is a symbol of the United States and its ally Israel.

Witnesses in al-Mawasi told the BBC that people were burned alive as tents were engulfed in flames.

The president of the Board of Deputies says he disagrees with the letter criticising the war in Gaza.

(Reuters):Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip afterHamas' October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow's longstanding ties with Palestinians helped secure their freedom

Thirty-six members of the largest body representing Jews in the UK warn "Israel's soul is being ripped out".

Israel Katz said Israel would continue its six-week blockade of all supplies, despite the UN warning of "devastating" consequences.

The agency says it is seeing "attack after attack" and supply shortages following an Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital.

Asaad al-Nassasra has been missing since Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in south Gaza three weeks ago.

The Israel Defense Forces said the hospital contained a "command and control center used by Hamas".

Israel's defence minister also said it had taken over a "security zone", which separates the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis

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The mother of a Palestinian killed in an IDF attack on emergency vehicles tells the BBC of her loss.

ANKARA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said here Thursday that Trkiye will continue working with Indonesia on rebuilding Gaza and defending the Palestinian cause, according to a statement released by the Turkish Presidency

The Israeli defence minister says the military is leaving Gaza "smaller" and "more isolated" to press Hamas into releasing hostages.

The analysis shows Israeli troops fired 100 shots during the attack which killed 15 people.

The Israeli military says it had struck a "senior Hamas terrorist" in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Hostages released earlier this year are adding their powerful voices to calls for a deal to bring home those still held by Hamas.

Israel has blocked all supplies from entering for five weeks - the longest period since the war began.

The organisation says the attack by Israeli troops on a convoy of ambulances constitutes a "fully-fledged war crime".

The IDF's killing of 15 emergency workers has drawn international condemnation

A journalist is reportedly killed in a strike at a hospital compound after 10 rockets are fired into Israel.

Israeli forces shot dead 15 emergency workers in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah on 23 March.

The video was published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which said it was obtained from the phone of a paramedic who was killed.

BBC Verify explains what we know about the incident after reviewing videos that were posted online.

Palestinian authorities say children were among the dead, while Israel says it hit a Hamas command-and-control centre.

Many Palestinians say they are going hungry after Israel stopped all aid deliveries to put pressure on Hamas.

Palestinian paramedic Munther Abed rejects Israel's assertion that the vehicles approached troops with their lights off.

Defence Minister Israel Katz said this would require a large-scale evacuation of Palestinians.

Since the war began, more than 15,000 children have reportedly been killed, the agency says.

The deaths of 15 people including paramedics in a convoy have been blamed on Israel's military.

(Reuters):Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UNofficials said on Monday (March 31)

It is the biggest such order since Israel resumed its offensive in the Palestinian territory earlier this month.

GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip have killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, and injured several since early Sunday (March 30) on the first day of Aidilfitri, Anadolu Ajansi reported

The ambulance team came under fire last Sunday in what Hamas said was an Israeli military attack

Dr Mark Perlmutter says doctors are working without soap, antibiotics or x-ray facilities, as Israel has resumed its offensive against Hamas.