A 23-year-old Palestinian woman, Saja Hamad, was rescued from the rubble of her home in Nuseirat, central Gaza, after it was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday.
Hamad was treated for multiple injuries at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Video footage verified by metadata shows her trapped under debris while rescuers worked to clear the rubble.
“I just found myself under the rubble, everything (fell) over my face, debris. I was screaming calling for my family, I thought they were dead,” Hamad described the moment.
“I did not expect they would still be alive. I thought I will end up alone,” she added, weeping as she recounted the ordeal at the hospital.
Her sister, Saada Hamad, described the attack and its aftermath: “Suddenly, the girl (Saja) started screaming, people came, and the civil defence came to rescue her. She was injured, her pelvis was fractured and her head was stitched.”
Saada also highlighted the repeated displacement of her family, “We have no houses left, no furniture, nothing. This is the 14th time I’ve been displaced, I have no strength left. Even if the Israelis come in, I am not leaving. I want to die in my place.”
Hospitals in Gaza are stretched to breaking point, struggling to treat casualties from ongoing airstrikes while also coping with high rates of child malnutrition.
According to the World Health Organization, only 19 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain operational, providing just 2,000 beds for more than 2 million people.
“Continued hostilities and military presence inhibit patients from accessing care, obstruct staff from providing care, and prevent WHO and partners from resupplying hospitals,” WHO said. Medical staff face impossible conditions, handling multiple mass casualty incidents each day while trying to deliver urgent care.
"Hospitals in Gaza are handling up to eight mass casualty incidents per day, and children suffering from malnutrition are particularly vulnerable," United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in its Gaza Situation Report in July 2025.
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Global oil prices reached a four year high on Monday (9 March), surpassing $119 a barrel, as conflict in the Middle East rumbled on. Meanwhile, the Turkish Military said NATO air defence systems destroyed a missile fired from Iran towards the country.
Global oil prices surpassed $119 a barrel on Monday (9 March, 2026), an almost four year high, as the Middle East conflict rumbled on.
China has urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve their dispute through dialogue after Chinese envoy Yue Xiaoyong met Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its eleventh day.
Iranian civilian and military officials have pledged their obedience to the new leader, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, with President Masoud Pezeshkian saying his leadership “will herald a new era of dignity and authority for the Iranian nation.”.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a hardline cleric with strong backing from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. His rise signals continuity in Tehran's anti-Western policies.
Global oil prices surpassed $119 a barrel on Monday (9 March, 2026), an almost four year high, as the Middle East conflict rumbled on.
Trump says the United States "don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won," targeting his criticism at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Israel continues to fire missles at strategic sites in Iran and Gulf regions report more strikes from Iran.
China has urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve their dispute through dialogue after Chinese envoy Yue Xiaoyong met Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its eleventh day.
Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader on Monday (9 March), signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel.
U.S. President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke by phone on Sunday as tensions between Washington and Westminster deepened over the conflict involving Iran. The call came less than a day after Trump criticised Britain’s response to U.S. strikes on Iranian targets.
Norwegian police are searching for a suspect after an explosion at the U.S. embassy in Oslo on 8 March caused minor damage but no injuries, in what authorities say may have been a deliberate attack linked to the Middle East crisis.
An explosion damaged a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège early on Monday (9 March) in what authorities said was an antisemitic attack that caused damage but no injuries.
The Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers will meet on Monday to discuss a global rise in oil prices and a joint release of oil from emergency reserves coordinated by the International Energy Agency, the Financial Times reports.
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