Soroush Pakzad, Roja Assadi,BBC News Persian,and Helen Sullivan Watch: Government building on fire as protests continue in Karaj, Iran Staff at three hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue. A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were “direct shots to…
Talk about steady hands. A team of Russian medics found themselves performing surgery on a patient during the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Russia’s Far East region on Tuesday. Security camera footage of the operation, released by Health Minister of Kamchatka Oleg Melnikov, shows the team of four healthcare professionals gripping the patient, as the…
Israeli forces have killed 23 Palestinians after opening fire on crowds gathered near an aid distribution site, witnesses and medics say. Tanks and drones fired at thousands of people near a distribution centre in central Gaza run by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the witnesses and medics said. The Israel Defense Forces…
