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  • Aid worker killings prompt temporary halt to UN operations after dark

    Date: 2024-04-04 09:25:57 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:10650050

    NEW YORK, April 4 (MENA) - United Nations humanitarians in Gaza have suspended operations at night for at least 48 hours in response to the killing of seven aid workers from the NGO World Central Kitchen on Tuesay, according to the UN News Center. ....

  • Pentagon calls for “swift” investigation on World Central Kitchen attack

    Date: 2024-04-04 08:33:14 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10649951

    WASHINGTON, April 4 (MENA) – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed his outrage at the Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid convoy that killed seven aid workers, including an American citizen, the Pentagon said in a ....

  • Gaza is most lethal place in world to be aid worker, says IRC

    Date: 2024-04-04 07:14:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:10649872

    GAZA CITY, April 4 (MENA) - The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said the killing of international charity workers this week by an Israeli air strike highlights that Gaza is the "most lethal place in the world to be an aid worker," Euronews ....

  • Attack on aid workers not to affect US efforts to set up floating pier off Gaza - spokesman

    Date: 2024-04-03 22:04:48 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:10649767

    WASHINGTON, April 3 (MENA) - US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the Israeli attack on aid workers would not affect U.S. efforts to prepare a floating pier to facilitate aid to Gaza by sea. Miller told reporters at a regular news ....

  • Israeli violations in Gaza highlight pressing need for immediate solution to Palestinian cause: ECFA

    Date: 2024-04-03 17:36:44 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:10649500

    CAIRO, April 3 (MENA) - Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip have demonstrated a pressing need to push for an immediate solution to the Palestinian cause and put an end the bloodthirsty Israeli occupation, the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs ....

  • Kirby: US has no plans to conduct its own investigation of Israel's killing of aid workers in Gaza

    Date: 2024-04-03 17:35:21 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10649507

    WASHINGTON, April 3 (MENA) - White House national security spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday said the US has no plans to conduct its own investigation of this week’s Israeli strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, The Washington ....

  • UK government under pressure from Tories to stop arming Israel

    Date: 2024-04-03 17:12:30 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10649517

    LONDON, April 3 (MENA) - Ministers are under pressure from Tory MPs and peers to stop arming Israel after seven humanitarian workers were killed by an airstrike in Gaza. Four Conservatives told the Guardian on Wednesday that the UK should stop ....

  • WHO spox says humanitarian tragedy aggravating in Gaza after 6 months of war

    Date: 2024-04-03 14:28:41 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:10649220

    GENEVA, April 3 (MENA) – Spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) Christian Lindmeier has said that an aggravating humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in the Gaza Strip after six months of war. Speaking in a call-in with Al Qahera News ....

  • Polish PM Tusk says Gaza aid worker deaths cause ‘understandable anger’

    Date: 2024-04-03 14:13:04 GMT - Poland - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:10649180

    WARSAW, April 3 (MENA) - An Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers including a Polish national in Gaza and the reaction of Israel’s prime minister have caused “understandable anger” and strained relations, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ....

  • Vatican pope expresses dismay at deaths of Gaza aid workers

    Date: 2024-04-03 11:45:35 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:10648968

    ROME, April 3 (MENA) - Vatican Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his dismay at the killing of seven aid workers delivering food in Gaza for the World Central Kitchen charity in an Israeli strike this week, ANSA reported. "I again renew my firm ....

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