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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. ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....