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Hamas urges int'l community to pressure Israeli gov’t to open crossings, allow aid delivery to Gaza

Date: 2025-04-22 18:40:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:11149269

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) – Hamas renewed its demand to the international community, the United Nations, and all relevant parties to take action and bear their responsibilities by pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open border ....

Hunger spreads, deepens deliberately: UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini says

Date: 2025-04-22 11:55:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:11148911

RAMALLAH, April 22 (MENA) - The head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) denounced on Tuesday the Israeli siege of Gaza, continuing since March 2, and called for the resumption ceasefire. “How much longer until hollow words of ....

Former Israeli commander: War’s purpose is to keep Netanyahu in office

Date: 2025-04-22 10:34:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:11148699

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) - Former Israeli commander Guy Rosen, a of a classified operational unit in the Israeli occupation Air Force and one of the initiators of the letter calling for the return of the hostages—even at the cost of ending the ....

Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2025-04-22 10:10:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:11148696

RAMALLAH, April 22 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers on Tuesday barged into the compound of al-Aqsa Mosque in Al Quds city (occupied East Jerusalem) in the West Bank, under protection of Israeli occupation forces, WAFA news agency reported. ....

Palestinian Health Ministry: 602,000 children at risk of permanent paralysis, chronic disability

Date: 2025-04-22 10:06:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:11148660

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) - The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 602,000 children in Gaza are at the risk of permanent paralysis and chronic disability due to a Polio vaccine blockade, calling for urgent action to prevent lifelong ....

14 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on several areas in Gaza

Date: 2025-04-22 08:28:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:11148463

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) - Fourteen Palestinians, including children, were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on several areas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, said Palestinian sources. On Monday, nine Palestinian civilians were ....

2 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City, Khan Younis

Date: 2025-04-21 22:58:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:11148322

RAMALLAH, April 21 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a group of civilians in Gaza City and Khan Younis, WAFA reported on Monday. An Israeli quadcopter drone shot and killed a Palestinian near Safed School in the ....

6 killed, injured in Israeli shelling of Bureij camp in central Gaza

Date: 2025-04-21 17:29:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:11148115

GAZA CITY, April 21 (MENA) - One Palestinian person was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli shelling of Bureij camp in central the Gaza Strip. WAFA quoted medical sources in Al Awda hospital in Nuseirat Camp as saying that a martyr ....

UNRWA condemns ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians, saying nothing can justify it

Date: 2025-04-21 15:32:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:11147996

RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, April 21 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday that the vast majority of Gaza's population are civilian children, women, and men, suffering indescribable ....

Death toll in Gaza rises to 51,240 as Israel continues its aggression

Date: 2025-04-21 13:29:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:11147917

GAZA CITY, April 21 (MENA) - The death toll from the Israeli occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 51,240, while 116,931 were wounded. Medical sources reported that 1,864 Palestinians were killed and 4,890 ....