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  • UN chief decries ‘unacceptable’ scale of Gaza deaths as 25,000 reported killed

    Date: 2024-01-21 16:03:35 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:10543957

    LONDON, Jan 21 (MENA) - Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has killed 25,000 Palestinians, the health ministry in the territory has announced, as the UN chief described the scale of civilian killings as “heartbreaking and utterly ....

  • AP says Israel far from achieving goals of war in Gaza

    Date: 2024-01-21 14:26:38 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:10543726

    WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (MENA) - The Israeli government appears far from achieving its goals of crushing Hamas group and freeing more than 100 hostages, AP said Sunday. The Palestinian death toll from the war in Gaza has soared past 25,000, according ....

  • ICHR chief: Israel kills 150 to 180 Palestinians daily

    Date: 2024-01-21 11:43:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10543397

    RAMALLAH, Jan 21 (MENA) - Director of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) Ammar Dwaik said that the situation in Gaza Strip is catastrophic due to the ongoing airstrikes and killings, with a daily toll of 150 to 180 ....

  • UN: Women, children account for 70% of deaths in Gaza

    Date: 2024-01-21 11:41:44 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:10543400

    GENEVA, Jan 21 (MENA) - Around 70 per cent of people killed in Gaza are today estimated to be women and children, including two mothers per hour killed since the beginning of the crisis, the UN Woman said. The Gaza crisis is impacting women and ....

  • US state department calls for holding swift investigation into killing of US citizen of Palestinian origin

    Date: 2024-01-21 08:33:39 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10543035

    WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (MENA) - The US Office of Palestinian Affairs, which is affiliated with the US State Department, called for holding an urgent investigation to determine the circumstances of the death of 17 year-old US citizen Tawfik Abdel Jabbar ....

  • NAM condemns ‘unjust war’ on Gaza

    Date: 2024-01-20 19:34:53 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10542667

    KAMPALA, Jan 20 (MENA) - The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit currently in session in Uganda has condemned the “unjust war” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. On its last day, Chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki ....

  • India pitches for two-state solution for Gaza crisis

    Date: 2024-01-20 18:13:50 GMT - Uganda - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10542649

    KAMPALA, Jan 20 (MENA) - The violence in Gaza requires a “sustainable solution”, said Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Speaking at the NAM summit in Ugandan capital Kampala, he urged to prevent the spread of violence to ....

  • SANA: Israeli strike hits Damascus residential building

    Date: 2024-01-20 09:16:33 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10541888

    DAMASCUS, Jan 20 (MENA) - Syrian state media said an Israeli attack had targeted a residential building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus on Saturday. The news was carried by Syria's state-run news agency SANA without giving further ....

  • Dozens of civilian casualties in Gaza as Israel's genocide marks 106 days

    Date: 2024-01-20 09:03:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:10541861

    GAZA CITY, Jan 20 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and others were wounded in a barrage of Israeli aerial and artillery shelling of multiple areas as the Israeli war of genocide on Gaza enters its 106 ....

  • UN: Israel detains thousands of Palestinians, subject to ill-treatment

    Date: 2024-01-19 21:45:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:10541595

    GENEVA/ RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) – Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ajith Sunghay, said that Israel is detaining Palestinians from Gaza on a broad scale, including many civilians, ....

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