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Israeli forces continue onslaught on Jenin for 71st consecutive day

Date: 2025-04-01 10:03:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:11122334

RAMALLAH, April 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces are continuing their onslaught on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 71st consecutive day, with ongoing home demolitions, the burning of houses and the conversion of others into ....

UNRWA Commissioner-General condemns killing of 408 aid workers in Gaza

Date: 2025-04-01 09:10:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:11122329

NEW YORK/RAMALLAH, March 31 (MENA) - UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini expressed devastation over the confirmed killing of two additional UNRWA staff members and eight Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) aid workers and first ....

Israel strikes Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut's Dahieh

Date: 2025-04-01 08:47:57 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:11122254

GAZA CITY, April 1 (MENA) - Air Force jets strike Hezbollah stronghold for second time since ceasefire in war against the group taking effect; the Israeli forces, according to Ynet News reported. "A short while ago, with the direction of the ....

Netanyahu cancels appointment of new Shin Bet head

Date: 2025-04-01 08:17:58 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:11122277

GAZA CITY, April 1 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he is backtracking on his decision to appoint Vice Adm. (res.) Eli Sharvit as the next head of the Shin Bet, some 24 hours after making the surprise announcement, ....

UNICEF: At least 322 children reportedly killed in Gaza following breakdown of ceasefire

Date: 2025-04-01 08:05:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:11122262

RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, April 1 (MENA) - The breakdown of the ceasefire and the resumption of intense bombardments and ground operations in the Gaza Strip have reportedly resulted in at least 322 children being killed and 609 others injured. This ....

Israeli airstrike kills journalist, his entire family in Gaza’s Khan Yunis

Date: 2025-04-01 07:54:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:11122252

GAZA CITY, April 1 (MENA) - A Palestinian journalist and his entire family were killed at dawn on Tuesday in an Israeli strike targeting their home in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, WAFA news agency reported. According to ....

Israeli finance min. resigns from his post

Date: 2025-04-01 07:22:26 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:11122207

GAZA CITY, April 1 (MENA) - In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announces his resignation as a cabinet minister and his resumption of his seat as a member of Knesset for his far right Religious Zionism ....

NGOs warn of grave consequences of mass displacement of thousands of Palestinians from Rafah

Date: 2025-03-31 18:39:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:11122052

DEIR AL BALAH, Central Gaza, March 31 (MENA) - Director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) in Gaza Amjad Shawa warned of the grave consequences of the mass displacement of thousands of Palestinians from Rafah towards ....

PLO says 25 bakeries ceased producing bread as fuel, cooking gas run out

Date: 2025-03-31 18:17:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:11122021

RAMALLAH, March 31 (MENA) - Qasim Awaad, Director General of the Human Rights Department at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that 25 bakeries in the Gaza Strip have stopped to produce bread after running out of fuel and cooking gas, ....

UNOCHA head in Palestine says 'health workers should never be a target'

Date: 2025-03-31 16:58:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:11121935

GAZA CITY, March 31 (MENA) - Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Palestine Jonathan Whittall, said: "Health workers should never be a target, and yet, we're here today, digging up a mass grave ....