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http://archive.today/2025.05.22-021209/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/world/middleeast/israel-warning-shots-west-bank.html

Israeli soldiers fired warning shots on Wednesday to disperse a group of senior Western diplomats, Palestinian officials and journalists as they toured a Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to statements by the Israeli military and the Palestinian Authority and television footage from the scene.

No one was reported injured, but the event intensified the friction between Israel and its foreign partners amid growing international criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank. The gunfire came two days after Britain, France and Canada called for Israel to end the war in Gaza, and a day after Britain suspended trade talks with Israel and criticized its support for settlements in the West Bank.

Diplomats from all three countries were among a large diplomatic delegation on Wednesday that toured the city of Jenin in the West Bank, with officials from the Palestinian Authority, the semiautonomous institution that administers parts of the territory, including Jenin.

The authority had organized the tour to highlight how the Israeli military, seeking to stamp out armed groups, had captured and partly demolished an area on the edge of the city. The neighborhood is known as the Jenin refugee camp because it mostly houses the descendants of Palestinians forced to flee their homes during the wars surrounding the creation of the state of Israel.

Toward the end of the tour, Israeli soldiers in the neighborhood fired at least seven shots to disperse some of the visiting officials as they stood about 80 yards from the soldiers, on the other side of a closed gate, according to several videos verified by The New York Times. The footage showed that the shooting began as officials milled around conducting interviews with journalists, several of them with their backs turned to the soldiers.

The gunfire occurred a few hundred yards from where an Israeli soldier fired on a prominent Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, killing her, in May 2022.

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http://archive.today/2025.05.16-182248/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-16/ty-article/.premium/gazas-last-hospital-for-10-000-cancer-patients-shuts-down-due-to-repeated-israeli-strikes/00000196-d85c-d048-a7d7-d87e6e700000

In an attempt to assassinate top Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, the Israeli military on Tuesday struck the European Hospital, Gaza's last facility that could treat cancer patients, killing at least 16 people, wounding 70, and leading to the evacuation of its patients. Since then, strikes on the hospital have not ceased.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that since October 7, 2023, Israel has struck 122 health facilities in the Gaza Strip and 180 ambulances in 686 different strikes.

According to a report by The Guardian, the UN estimates that more than 12,000 people in the Gaza Strip need to travel to receive treatment they don't have access to in the enclave. Ten thousand of them are cancer patients, for whom Aseel Aburass, the director of Physicians for Human Rights' Occupied Palestinian Territory Department, says "the only treatment that can be offered to patients today is symptomatic treatment."

Even before the war, "being a cancer patient in Gaza was a death sentence," according to Aburass. "Today, it is much worse. Their only hope is to evacuate outside the Gaza Strip." She added that "in November, the stock of chemotherapy drugs ran out, and even the little that came in during the respite has already run out."

Ever since the Gaza Strip was blockaded around 18 years ago, cancer patients have suffered significant difficulties in receiving medical treatment. Even before the war, no departments provided radiotherapy, and there was a shortage of equipment and various other treatments. Gazan cancer patients, therefore, mainly relied on treatments they would receive in hospitals in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Most of the Palestinians who left Gaza before the war were, in fact, oncology patients seeking treatment.

The situation has worsened since the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023. The two main hospitals providing radiotherapy were the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the center of the Gaza Strip and the European Hospital in the south. The Al-Shifa Hospital and the Rantisi Hospital provided supportive treatment.

The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital was abandoned at the instruction of the IDF at the beginning of the war. Around two months ago, Division 252 commander Yehuda Wach ordered the hospital's destruction, leaving the European Hospital as the sole facility treating cancer patients – until its recent closure.

http://archive.today/2025.05.19-093134/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/health/joe-biden-diagnosis-prostate-cancer.html

Prostate cancer experts say that former President Joseph R. Biden’s diagnosis is serious. Announced on Sunday by his office, the cancer has spread to his bones. And it is Stage 4, the most deadly of stages for the illness. It cannot be cured.

But the good news, prostate cancer specialists said, is that recent advances in diagnosing and treating prostate cancer — based in large part on research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department — have changed what was once an exceedingly grim picture for men with advanced disease.

“Life is measured in years now, not months,” said Dr. Daniel W. Lin, a prostate cancer specialist at the University of Washington.

Dr. Judd Moul, a prostate cancer expert at Duke University, said that men whose prostate cancer has spread to their bones, “can live 5, 7, 10 or more years” with current treatments. A man like Mr. Biden, in his 80s, “could hopefully pass away from natural causes and not from prostate cancer,” he said.

Mr. Biden’s office said the former president had urinary symptoms, which led him to seek medical attention.