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  • Famine in Gaza Strip threatens lives of hundreds of thousands of people

    Date: 2024-02-21 16:42:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:10591984

    GAZA CITY, Feb 21 (MENA) - The government media office in the Gaza Strip warned of a catastrophe threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in light of the famine gripping the enclave. In a statement, the ....

  • Knesset's decision 'invalid, illegal' - Palestinian Foreign Ministry

    Date: 2024-02-21 16:25:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:10591908

    RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (MENA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned on Wednesday the Knesset's decision regarding the Palestinian State and described it as “invalid, illegitimate or illegal”. In a press release, it ....

  • 118 Palestinians killed in 11 Israeli massacres over past 24 hours

    Date: 2024-02-21 16:02:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:10591020

    RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation army has carried out 11 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, PIC reported. As a result, at least 118 ....

  • 24 aid trucks enter Gaza via Rafah border terminal

    Date: 2024-02-21 11:09:46 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10591071

    RAFAH, Egypt, Feb 21 (MENA) - As many as 24 trucks loaded with various humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday through the Rafah border crossing. An official source at the crossing said the convoy consists of four fuel trucks and 20 ....

  • Dozens of civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes, bombings as war on Gaza enters its 138th day

    Date: 2024-02-21 10:17:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10590868

    GAZA, Feb 21 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured on Tuesday and at dawn Wednesday during the ongoing Israeli occupation bombardment of the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air, since October 7th, 2023. The occupation ....

  • Food deliveries into northern Gaza are halted because of the war’s chaos, increasing famine risk

    Date: 2024-02-21 10:16:07 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10590770

    WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (MENA) - The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation, The Associated Press said. A study ....

  • Scores killed, injured in Israeli shelling of houses in Gaza City

    Date: 2024-02-20 23:13:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:10590467

    GAZA, Feb 20 (MENA) – Scores of civilians were killed and more others were injured in Israeli strikes targeting houses in the Zeitoun, southeast Gaza City, WAFA reported. The Israeli bombing targeted houses belonging to families of Naim, Khalifa, ....

  • US proposes 6-week ceasefire in Gaza after vetoing Arab-backed resolution

    Date: 2024-02-20 21:58:23 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:10590426

    WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (MENA) - The US proposed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Gaza calling for a temporary ceasefire in the war-ravaged strip and warning against an Israeli ground incursion into Rafah, CNN reported ....

  • Moscow says holds phone talks with Fatah, Hamas on inter-Palestinian meeting

    Date: 2024-02-20 21:56:17 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:10590443

    MOSCOW, Feb 20 (MENA) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held a phone conversation with the leaders of Fatah and Hamas to discuss the inter-Palestinian meeting planned to take place in Moscow, Sputnik reported. "At the initiative ....

  • US-owned grain carrier attacked in Red Sea by Houthis - Central Command says

    Date: 2024-02-20 21:53:37 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:10590435

    WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (MENA) – The US Central Command said on Tuesday that two anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) were launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward M/V Sea Champion, a Greek-flagged, US-owned grain carrier in the Gulf of Aden ....

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