On November 17, 2023, Palestinian sources reported that Hamas official Ahmad Bahr was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.[1] Bahr, 76, was a member of Hamas's political bureau and former deputy chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Khaled Abu Hilal, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Freedom Movement, was separately reportedly killed in an airstrike.[2]
Updated to reflect new data as of 4 May 2023 SYRIA/TÜRKIYE – “I feel very broken. I’m trying to hold on for the sake of my children, because they are extremely exhausted after the earthquake – I don’t want anything to disturb them anymore.”
SYRIA/TÜRKIYE – The numbers are beyond comprehension: Nearly 16 million people in Türkiye and 9 million in Syria affected by two massive earthquakes. Among them, some 350,000 pregnant women in both countries – women who need vital, immediate access to health services in structures that are no longer standing, amid rubble that used to be roads.