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Israeli occupation forces round up over 14 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2023-12-29 09:33:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:10511346

RAMALLAH, Dec 29 (MENA) – Israeli occupation forces have continued their mass detention campaign in the West Bank, detaining at least 14 Palestinians, including a child, over the last few hours in a series of raids into Palestinian cities, towns, ....

Several civilians, mostly children and women, killed and injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp

Date: 2023-12-29 09:05:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:10511307

GAZA, Dec 29 (MENA) – Several civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and others injured late Wednesday night in an Israeli shelling that targeted the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, WAFA reported. According to local ....

Israel in talks over release of Gaza hostages, Netanyahu tells families

Date: 2023-12-29 08:13:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10511263

RAMALLAH, Dec 29 (MENA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is working to return all the hostages, the Jerusalem Post reported. "We are holding contacts at this very moment," he told relatives of the hostages at the Kirya ....

Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli forces near Mazmoria checkpoint

Date: 2023-12-28 23:11:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:10511128

RAMALLAH, Dec 28 (MENA) - A Palestinian young man was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces Thursday evening in Jabal al-Mukaber town in southeast Jerusalem. The Israeli forces claimed that the youth, identified as Ahmed Elian, was involved in a ....

Israeli airstrikes claim lives of at least 20 Palestinian civilians in Rafah

Date: 2023-12-28 19:58:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:10510990

GAZA/RAMALLAH, Dec 28 (MENA) - At least 20 Palestinian civilians were confirmed killed and dozens more injured this evening as a result of Israeli airstrikes targeting a residential building in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, state news ....

UN warns of rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in West Bank

Date: 2023-12-28 19:36:15 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10510992

NEW YORK, Dec 28 (MENA) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said that the use of military tactics means and weapons in law enforcement contexts, the use of unnecessary or disproportionate force, and the enforcement of broad, ....

UNRWA: 40% of Gaza's population now at risk of famine

Date: 2023-12-28 16:03:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:10510761

GAZA CITY, Dec 28 (MENA) – The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has said that 40% of Gaza’s population is now at risk of famine. In a post on social media, the agency said: “Gaza is grappling with catastrophic hunger. 40% of the ....

AP condemns UNSC failure to issue resolution to cease fire in Gaza

Date: 2023-12-28 15:38:41 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10510661

CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) – The Arab Parliament condemned on Thursday the international silence and UN Security council’s failure to issue a resolution to cease fire in the Gaza Strip. This came in the final statement of a special session titled ....

210 Palestinians killed, 360 injured in Gaza in past 24 hours, says health ministry

Date: 2023-12-28 15:06:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:10510605

GAZA CITY, Dec 28 (MENA) - As many as 210 Palestinians were killed and 360 others were injured in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, said Spokesman for the Health Ministry in the enclave Ashraf al Qudra. In a press statement, the spokesman ....

PNC head: No return to Gaza rule away from Palestinians' options

Date: 2023-12-28 14:27:55 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:10510552

CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) - Speaker of the Palestinian National Council Rawhi Fattouh asserted no return to rule over the Gaza Strip without a complete pullout of the Israeli occupation forces from the coastal enclave, in addition to lifting the siege, ....