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Gaza population 'starving to death': WHO

Date: 2024-01-31 20:33:54 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:10559986

GENEVA, Jan 31 (MENA) - The population of Gaza is starving to death due to constraints imposed on humanitarian aid, the World Health Organization's emergencies director Michael Ryan said on Wednesday. The WHO said the risk of famine in the ....

UK decision to suspend UNRWA aid opposes attempts to prevent humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza: Palestinian PM

Date: 2024-01-31 18:09:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:10559798

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the British decision to suspend UNRWA aid supplies is sudden and opposes any attempt to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Shtayyeh urged UK to go back on its ....

Abbas discusses latest Gaza developments with emir of Qatar

Date: 2024-01-31 12:04:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:10558950

RAMALLAH, Jan 31 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has briefed the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the latest developments regarding the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, ....

Israel kills 150 Palestinians over past 24 hours

Date: 2024-01-31 12:03:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:10559138

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces committed 16 massacres against innocent families in the Gaza Strip, killing nearly 150 people and wounding over 313 during the last 24 hours, according to the Palestinian news agency ....

Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2024-01-31 08:17:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10558679

GAZA, Jan 31 (MENA) - Scores of settlers, guarded by Israeli forces, stormed Al Aqsa Mosque compound Wednesday. The settlers broke into the Mosque's compound from Bab al-Maghariba 's Gate, carried out provocative tours in the Mosque's yards and ....

Day 117 of genocide: Dozens of civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Date: 2024-01-31 08:05:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:10558635

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip that enters its 117th day, Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said Wednesday. ....

Palestinian PM: Israel’s belief that it could act with complete impunity encourages it to continue committing crimes

Date: 2024-01-30 22:06:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:10558443

RAMALLAH, Jan 30 (MENA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said that Israel’s belief that it could act with complete impunity encourages it to continue committing crimes, WAFA reported. Shtayyeh slammed the occupation’s measures and ....

Gazans suffer utter desperation, live in hellish conditions - WHO warns

Date: 2024-01-30 21:21:41 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:10558414

GENEVA, Jan 30 (MENA) – As the UN chief prepares to meet representatives from countries who donate to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) late on Tuesday following allegations of collusion with Hamas, the UN health agency, WHO, reiterated ....

UK worried about call for resettlement of Gaza

Date: 2024-01-30 19:55:08 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:10558370

LONDON, Jan 30 (MENA) – The UK is “alarmed” by the conference in Jerusalem calling for the resettlement of Gaza, according to a statement issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The FCDO on Tuesday gave a statement ....

Biden says he’s decided how to respond to deadly attack on US forces in Jordan --Paper

Date: 2024-01-30 19:46:30 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:10558313

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said Tuesday he has decided how he plans to respond to an attack on U.S. forces in Jordan that killed three Americans but stressed he was not seeking a wider war in the Middle East, the Hill ....