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Washington Post: US strike in Baghdad raises specter of wider regional war

Date: 2024-01-05 09:42:26 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:10520491

WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - A US airstrike on Thursday killed an Iran-linked militia commander in Iraq and risked accelerating the regional fallout from Washington’s support for Israel’s military operation in Gaza, even as the Biden administration ....

Scores of persons martyred in Khan Yunis, Rafah, Gaza, Al-Nusseirat and Maghazi camps

Date: 2024-01-04 23:00:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:10520329

GAZA, Jan 4 (MENA) - At least two civilians were killed, and others were injured on Thursday evening due to the ongoing airstrikes carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft on "Khan Yunis" in the southern Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of ....

UN says "very disturbed" by Israeli calls for people of Gaza to migrate

Date: 2024-01-04 21:36:37 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:10520304

LONDON, Jan 4 (MENA) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said on Thursday he was "very disturbed" against the backdrop of comments by senior Israeli officials calling for Palestinians to leave Gaza. In a tweet on X he wrote: "Very disturbed by ....

Kuwait categorically rejects Israel's forced displacement remarks

Date: 2024-01-04 15:17:04 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10519937

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 4 (MENA) - Kuwait categorically rejects and denounces remarks of Israeli occupation officials on the forced displacement of Gazans, reported the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry on Thursday. The ministry, in a statement, reiterated its ....

PJS: 102 journalists killed, 71 injured in 2023

Date: 2024-01-04 14:46:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:10519882

RAMALLAH/GAZA, Jan 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate documented the killing of 102 journalists and the injury of 71 in 2023. That came in a press conference, which was held by PJS to announce its annual report about the most ....

Gaza's Health Ministry: Gaza death toll rises to 22,438

Date: 2024-01-04 14:23:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:10519822

GAZA CITY, Jan 4 (MENA) - The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip revealed on Thursday that the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the enclave rose to 22,438. The total of people injured reached ....

UN ‘very disturbed’ by Israeli ministers’ calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza

Date: 2024-01-04 13:38:02 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10519685

GENEVA, Jan 4 (MENA) - UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday he was "very disturbed" following comments by senior Israeli officials calling for Palestinians to leave Gaza. Two far-right ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin ....

Killing of senior Hamas leader carries risks for Israel: Analysts

Date: 2024-01-04 13:37:37 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:10519666

NEWYORK, Jan 4 (MENA) -The assassination of a top Hamas official in Beirut on Tuesday was welcomed by many in Israel as a necessary, even inevitable, step in the campaign to destroy Hamas that Israel has been waging since the terror group's brutal ....

Chinese president sends condolences to Iranian president over serious terror attacks

Date: 2024-01-04 13:34:14 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:10519690

BEIJING, Jan 4 (MENA) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday sent a message of condolences to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi over the serious terror attacks in the country, Xinhua reported. Xi said he was shocked to learn that serious ....

UK condemns bombing in Kerman, Iran

Date: 2024-01-04 12:30:52 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:10519669

LONDON, Jan 4 (MENA) - A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office expressed on Thursday his country's condemnation of the horrendous bombing in Kerman, Iran, which killed so many Iranians. "Our thoughts and condolences to ....