Tel al-Hawa

I remember one day before December 7, on December 6th, my late teacher and professor, Refaat Al-Areer, if I could point out to this, I had a call with him.

He was sheltering with his family in Tal Al-Hawa, uh, with his sister in his sister's apartment and their four children, I think.

And so he told me, he knew I was reporting, and he knew I was working as a journalist, and he told me, "Mohammed, although our cause is worth dying for, it's our insistence on living that bothers our enemies the most." I didn't really understand, like, fully what that meant at the moment, but I realized, like, one day after that, he was killed, and then the day after, I was targeted.

And so I tried to hold onto the little things that made life possible in Gaza and even after leaving Gaza to make sure we are not as extraordinary as people think we are.

It did not give the location or circumstances of his death.

Separately, an Israeli drone strike hit a passenger van in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, killing six people according to witnesses and medical sources.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its crew took 13 wounded people to Al-Quds Hospital.

An Israeli strike on a residential apartment near Al-Shifa Hospital killed at least one woman.

In international news, Gaza authorities have said that 21 people, including five children, have died after an apartment building collapsed from damage sustained in earlier Israeli strikes.

The six-story building crumbled overnight into nearby homes and tents in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City, which works as a rescue service under Hamas authority.

The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still spreading but appears to be showing encouraging signs of improvement, the head of World Health Organization has said today.

Global stock markets have risen as oil prices slipped slightly today ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on US interest rates, with policymakers debating how to tame surging inflation in the world's largest economy.

Rescuers are searching for dozens of people missing after an apartment block in Gaza collapsed, killing eight people, including children.

Gaza's Civil Defense Agency said the six-story building in Tal Al-Hawa was home to people displaced by the war with Israel and collapsed onto residentials and nearby tents.

France's ex-Culture Minister Rachida Dati is to go on trial on corruption charges linked to dealings with the Renault Nissan Group, just months after her bruising defeat in the Paris mayoral race.

One of the most prominent figures on the French right, Dati will now stand trial with the fugitive Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced former Renault Nissan chief, who'll be tried in absentia.