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Storm Daniel, Libya, 2023.

Climate change worsened ten deadliest weather disasters, causing over 570,000 deaths

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

AMBULANCES ARE parked at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital emergency room. It’s enough to visit any Israeli hospital ER in the evening to see the exhausted doctors doing their best through 24-hour shifts and more to provide supportive care, says the writer.

During Shabbat: Gate crushes child to death, dog severely bites another child

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba and pray at the Grand mosque ahead of annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia August 16, 2018

Soaring temperatures scorch pilgrims on Hajj in Saudi Arabia

ICEBERG AHEAD: Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

'Titanic': The story of the Jews on the 'unsinkable' ship

By ALEX WINSTON

A MAN buys vegetables from a local vendor during the month of Ramadan in Omdurman, Sudan. Nearly 20 million people, almost one out of every two Sudanese, are facing acute food insecurity in a country that used to be a major food producer, the writers note.

The man-made disaster in Sudan must be stopped

By JOSEP BORRELL , JANEZ LENARCIC

THE LAST major natural disaster Israel faced was the Carmel Forest fire in 2010, which claimed 44 lives, forced the evacuation of some 17,000 people, and resulted in the burning of nearly 25 sq. km., including several million trees.

Israel has a unique reconstruction challenge resulting from Oct. 7

By BARAK SELLA

A collapsed wall by a strong earthquake is pictured in Kunimi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on February 14, 2021 in this photo taken by Kyodo.

Japan earthquake survivors battle unsanitary conditions with no running water

By REUTERS

Participants simulate a disaster on Kibbutz Yagur for training purposes.

United Hatzalah drill simulates October 7th scenario in Israel's North

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Larry French in Tel Aviv

WATCH: 'This is how my master's degree in Israel is opening my horizons'

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Baba Vanga's 2024 predictions: EU terrorist attack, Putin assassination

By Walla!

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, March 25, 1911.

100 years after factory fire, Jewish and Italian victims get a memorial

By Julia Gergely/JTA

The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph

A movie about the Titan submersible tragedy is in the works

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People gather at the site following a fatal fire at a wedding celebration, in the district of Hamdaniya in Iraq's Nineveh province, Iraq, September 27, 2023.

Over a hundred killed, 150 injured in Iraq wedding inferno

By REUTERS

A donkey carries items, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, near Elmekhzen village, in Morocco, September 16, 2023.

Moroccans rally after devastating earthquake

By Driss Lyakoubi/The Media Line

An aerial view of the fire as Two Hawaii Army National Guard CH47 Chinook (not pictured) perform aerial water bucket drops on the island of Maui to support the fight with wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, August 9, 2023.

US breaks 2020 record for billion-dollar natural disasters with 23 this year

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A man stands next to a donkey that carries his belongings days after the deadly earthquake, in the village of Adouz, Morocco September 12, 2023.

Morocco quake survivors pack donkeys with supplies to reach cut-off villages

By REUTERS

General view of flood water covering the area as a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Al-Mukhaili, Libya September 11, 2023, in this handout picture.

Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, 10,000 feared missing

By REUTERS

United Hatzalah's aid mission on the ground in Morocco.

Morocco earthquake: Israel is ready to help in their hour of need - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL