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Pavlohrad Shopping Center Strike Kills 4, Wounds Over 60

11Sep

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Pavlohrad Shopping Center Strike Kills 4, Wounds Over 60

The Pavlohrad shopping center strike was the deadliest of several Russian attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, September 10, part of a wave that also hit a mall in Sumy for the second time in two days, a US-owned food plant in Dnipro, and residential areas of Kramatorsk. By evening, authorities had confirmed at least eight people killed and more than 80 wounded nationwide, with several tolls still rising as rescue teams worked through the debris. A drone struck a shopping center in central Pavlohrad, a city in Dnipropetrovsk region roughly 75 kilometers from the front line, around midday, when the surrounding streets were full of shoppers. Ukraine's State Emergency Service confirmed by early evening that four people had been killed and 62 injured, including two rescuers hurt while respon...

Israeli Raid in Gaza City Kills 4, Truce Frays

2Sep

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Israeli Raid in Gaza City Kills 4, Truce Frays

Gaza City, September 2, 2026 - An Israeli raid in Gaza City aimed at detaining a senior Hamas commander triggered a barrage of airstrikes on Tuesday that left at least four Palestinians dead, including two children, according to Gaza health officials and multiple international news agencies. The operation, and the bombardment that followed it, unfolded against the backdrop of an increasingly fragile, nearly year-old ceasefire that has yet to deliver on promises of reconstruction or a broader Israeli withdrawal. Timeline of the Israeli Raid in Gaza City According to accounts gathered by Reuters and corroborated by Gaza's Hamas-run government media office, an undercover Israeli unit entered western Gaza City on Tuesday with the specific goal of capturing a high-ranking Hamas figure. Th...

2 Killed, Including Toddler, in Deir al-Balah Strike Near Bakery

31Aug

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2 Killed, Including Toddler, in Deir al-Balah Strike Near Bakery

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip - A three-year-old boy and a Palestinian man were killed on Sunday when the Deir al-Balah strike hit close to a bakery in the center of the Gaza Strip, according to health officials who spoke with Reuters. The strike, which also wounded several bystanders, adds two more names to a death toll that has climbed steadily in the ten months since a ceasefire was meant to end the killing - a toll HCN has tracked climbing past 1,280 in recent days. The child, identified by medics at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as Tayyem Hamdan, and the man, named as Hussam Nusair, were confirmed dead by Gaza's health authorities on the day of the Deir al-Balah strike. By the afternoon, Hamdan's mother and other relatives had gathered at the hospital in Deir al-Balah for his funeral; photo...

Pechenihy Declares Days of Mourning After Deadly Missile Strike on Town Center

19Aug

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Pechenihy Declares Days of Mourning After Deadly Missile Strike on Town Center

The Pechenihy missile strike has left a small town in Ukraine's Kharkiv region mourning its dead, after Russian forces hit the settlement's center on Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people as they went about the ordinary business of starting their week. Pechenihy, a settlement of a few thousand residents roughly 48 kilometers southeast of the city of Kharkiv, was struck at around 8:40 a.m. local time on August 18, when two Banderol-type missiles hit the intersection at the heart of the town. It is the kind of place that rarely appears on a map of the war: no strategic value, no front-line significance, just a post office, a café, a small shop, and the homes clustered around them. On Tuesday, that ordinariness is precisely what made the strike so devastating – the missiles landed as...