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UN chief urges for humanitarian pauses to conduct crucial polio vaccination campaign in Gaza
Date: 2024-08-16 19:12:21 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10831885
NEW YORK, Aug 16 (MENA) - The United Nations is poised to launch a vital polio vaccine campaign in Gaza for more than 640,000 children under the age of 10, Secretary-General António Guterres announced Friday. "Gaza is in a humanitarian freefall. ....
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Blinken to visit Israel Saturday to discuss concluding ceasefire deal
Date: 2024-08-16 19:02:53 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10831906
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Israel on Saturday to continue intensive diplomatic efforts to conclude an agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees through the bridging ....
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UN urges for holding Israeli settlers accountable for WB village attack
Date: 2024-08-16 18:08:51 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10831832
NEW YORK, Aug 16 (MENA) - Echoing widespread condemnation internationally and within Israel of the attack reportedly by Israeli settlers on the village of Jit on Thursday which left a Palestinian man dead and about a dozen injured, OHCHR ....
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UNRWA urges humanitarian 7-day truce in Gaza for polio vaccination campaign
Date: 2024-08-16 16:19:21 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:10831796
GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - Two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are expected to be launched at the end of August and September 2024 across the Gaza Strip to prevent the spread of circulating variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2), according to an ....
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OIC strongly condemns escalation of Israeli crimes in West Bank
Date: 2024-08-16 15:41:34 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:10831732
RIYADH, Aug 16 (MENA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the terror and daily crimes committed by Israeli extremist settlers against the Palestinians including a recent random shooting on civilians in a village in ....
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A woman, 3 children killed in Israeli airstrike on tent of displaced persons west Khan Yunis
Date: 2024-08-16 15:38:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:10831761
RAMALLAH/GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - A woman and three children were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent for internally displaced persons in the Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis, in the southern war-torn Gaza Strip, according to WAFA News ....
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UNRWA: Israel issued new evacuation orders to Palestinians in Gaza
Date: 2024-08-16 15:35:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:10831764
GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Israeli authorities issued new evacuation orders for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, even inside the so-called “humanitarian zone”. “Fear has ....
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More Palestinian civilians killed, injured in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Date: 2024-08-16 08:48:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10831239
GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - Several Palestinian civilians were killed and others injured as a result of Israeli aerial and artillery strikes, along with gunfire from Israeli occupation forces targeting various areas across the Gaza Strip, WAFA ....
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White House decries 'unacceptable' Israeli settler violence
Date: 2024-08-16 06:25:51 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10831207
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (MENA) - The White House on Thursday condemned what it called "unacceptable" attacks on Palestinians by Jewish settlers after one person was killed and another wounded in a village in the occupied West Bank. "Attacks by violent ....
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UK foreign minister planning Israel trip to help prevent wider war - paper
Date: 2024-08-15 19:00:59 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10830972
LONDON, Aug 15 (MENA) - David Lammy is reportedly planning an imminent trip to Israel amid high tensions with Iran in an attempt to help avert an escalation of war in the Middle East, the Guardian reported on Thursday. The UK foreign secretary ....
