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  • PRCS: Dozens of staff killed, injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza

    Date: 2024-02-01 13:08:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10560714

    RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) Spokesperson Nebal Farsakh Thursday said forces of the Israeli occupation continuously target hospitals in the Gaza Strip and are still imposing a siege on Nasser and Al Amal hospitals that are ....

  • UNRWA official raises alarm over halting funding

    Date: 2024-02-01 12:32:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:10560695

    GAZA CITY, Feb 1 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Field Public Information Officer Kazem Abu Khalaf Thursday described a decision to suspend funding of the UN agency as a "major ....

  • Humanitarian crisis in Gaza to deepen as aid is frozen--Paper

    Date: 2024-02-01 12:24:23 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:10560690

    WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - Funding cuts from the U.S. and other international donors will likely hit the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency operations over the coming month, adding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and raising difficult ....

  • Palestine Health Ministry: 118 killed in Gaza in 24 hours

    Date: 2024-02-01 11:42:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10560606

    GAZA CITY, Feb 1 (MENA) - Palestinian Health Ministry Thursday said that the Israeli occupation forces committed 15 massacres against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip, killing 118 civilians and 190 wounded over the past 24 hours. It ....

  • Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2024-02-01 11:22:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:10560572

    GAZA, Feb 1 (MENA) - Scores of settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque compound Thursday under the protection of Israeli forces. The settlers broke into the Mosque's compound from Bab al-Maghariba 's Gate, carried out provocative tours in the Mosque's ....

  • PLO slams approving bill banning its members from entering US

    Date: 2024-02-01 10:52:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10560475

    RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh said Thursday that the US approval of a bill to ban the entry of members of the PLO into the United States of ....

  • US judge tosses suit against Florida over ban on pro-Palestinian Group

    Date: 2024-02-01 07:59:21 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10560219

    WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Florida's proposed ban on a pro-Palestinian university group violated students' free speech rights, ruling that the case was not valid because the ban had not been ....

  • Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile, Iranian UAVs shot down in Gulf of Aden

    Date: 2024-02-01 07:18:25 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:10560135

    WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Gulf of Aden, according to US Centcom. The missile was successfully shot down by the USS Carney ....

  • Lapid ready to enter government instead of Ben Gvir, Smotrich, to ensure hostage deal

    Date: 2024-02-01 06:58:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:3 - ID:10560111

    RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said that his Yesh Atid party is prepared to enter the government to replace the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism parties if that is what is needed to secure the release of ....

  • Guterres calls for aid to UNRWA to save lives in Gaza

    Date: 2024-01-31 20:40:28 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:10559971

    NEW YORK, Jan 31 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on all UN member states to provide assistance to UNRWA to save lives in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the humanitarian support system in the Gaza Strip is ....

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