Alistair Bunkall
Middle East Correspondent at Sky News
Sky News Middle East Correspondent, مراسل سكاي نيوز (formerly Defence & Security Correspondent) | Podcast: ‘Off The Record’ available on Spotify and iTunes
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1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Alistair Bunkall
The head of a controversial humanitarian organisation set up to transport aid to Gaza has resigned over concerns about its independence. Jake Wood, a former US marine, had led the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for the past two months but now says he cannot continue. The foundation is set to start delivering aid into Gaza on Monday and claims it will reach a million Palestinians by the end of the week. But there are questions over who is funding it and how it will work.
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2 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Alistair Bunkall
In mid-May, the World Health Organisation assessed that there were "nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death". "This is one of the world's worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time," its report concluded.
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2 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Alistair Bunkall
Pictures show aftermath of hospital attack Pictures are emerging of the aftermath of the Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza City overnight. Images show Palestinians mourning the people killed, while medics treat those injured in the attack on the Al Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. So far 15 people have been reported dead, all from the same family and including five women and two children, according to Hamas-run local authorities.
British doctor in Gaza describes horror as people starve - and tells world leaders to 'do something'
2 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Alistair Bunkall
A British doctor working in Gaza has urged world leaders to "stop talking and do something" as he described how people are starving and the "massive extent of destruction". Dr Tom Potokar - who has compared Gaza to a "slaugherhouse" because of the bombardment by Israeli forces - is part of a group of British specialist doctors and surgeons currently working in Khan Younis. Image: Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis.
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2 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Alistair Bunkall
It has been a brutal week in Gaza, hundreds have been killed as Israel has carried out waves of "preliminary" strikes ahead of a bigger offensive. The ground manoeuvre has now begun. The strategy is to "conquer" and then hold territory - some in the Israeli government say permanently. But having repeatedly said the war will continue until "total victory", the Israeli government has narrowed its options and set down a path of prolonged fighting.
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