An Israeli strike killed a security guard and wounded 10 patients at a field hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to the director of the medical facility. The deadly attack on the grounds of the Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital…
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What One Image Shows About a Strike in Gaza
The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed last month, and the dead and wounded again pour into the hospital. The injured are triaged at a tent in the hospital’s courtyard, set up to relieve the pressure on the packed emergency…
Lucy Letby Murders Inquiry Should Be Halted, Hospital’s Ex-Managers Say
Lawyers for former senior executives at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England have asked for a halt to the public inquiry into the murders of babies by Lucy Letby, a former nurse, citing new evidence that they said…
Children Try to Cheer Pope Francis During His Hospital Stay
Flying balloons in the Vatican colors of yellow and white, dozens of children gathered on Sunday in the square of the Policlinico A. Gemelli, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized for more than four weeks, and chanted “Papa Francesco” and…
Haiti’s Biggest Hospital, Dependent on U.S.A.I.D., Is Set on Fire by Gangs
Two days before last Christmas, Dr. Pierre S. Prince took an exciting new job as director of Haiti’s largest public hospital, which the United States spent tens of millions of dollars renovating and is so deep in gang territory that…
Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On
We asked 19 photographers to revisit their most enduring images of the coronavirus pandemic, five years after the virus became a global threat. Their photographs transport us to that bewildering period in an uncanny sort of time travel. The journalists…
Pope Francis Had a Restful Night, Still in Critical Condition
Pope Francis spent a restful night at the Rome hospital where he has been in critical condition as he undergoes treatment for pneumonia and a complex infection, the Vatican said Sunday morning. Beyond the brief text — “The night passed…