According to @WHO, heart disease is the number 1 cause of death worldwide for both men & women of all races. Heart disease puts people at higher risk of complications from COVID-19, but the virus can also trigger heart issues.
@WHO In a study of 191 patients from Wuhan, China, 8% of hospitalised COVID-19 patients had cardiovascular disease.
35% of the patients who died from COVID-19 had a history of high blood pressure and 17% had a history of coronary heart disease aje.io/55aev#WorldHeartDay
@WHO This suggests that underlying heart disease can increase the severity of symptoms for those who catch COVID-19, resulting in a higher death rate.
UNRWA says Israeli forces have forced between 60,000 and 70,000 Palestinians to evacuate from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the already densely crowded al-Mawasi area.
Israeli forces have bombed a home in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding others, according to the report.
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has signed an order banning all visits to Palestinian prisoners for another month, extending a ban that has been in place since Israel launched its war on Gaza.
Paramedics and witnesses reported finding children 'torn to pieces' and 'body parts everywhere' after Israeli attacks hit a school sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians.
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 60 injured, including paramedics, as Israeli warplanes repeatedly targeted the Hamama and al-Huda school complex sheltering Palestinian families.
An Israeli woman has been killed and three others wounded in the city of Holon after a Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank attacked them with a knife, reports the Times of Israel.
The Australian government has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a youth group for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israelβs top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.