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Netanyahu to hold security meet with key ministers amid reports of progress in hostage talks

Date: 2025-01-05 10:16:51 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:11015810

GAZA CITY, Jan 5 (MENA) - As talks on a hostage deal get back on track in Doha, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a small group of ministers to his office in Jerusalem for a security meeting at 5 p.m. Sunday, an aide to one of the ....

Israeli forces detain 20 Palestinians across West Bank

Date: 2025-01-05 09:54:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:11015731

RAMALLAH, Jan 5 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces have detained at least 20 Palestinians, including children and former prisoners, over the last 24 hours, according to a joint statement by the Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees and ....

82 killed, 296 injured in Al Quds since October 2023

Date: 2025-01-05 09:20:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:11015707

RAMALLAH, Jan 5 (MENA) - Al Quds governorate reported the death of 82 Palestinians and the injury of 296 others with live and rubber bullets, since the beginning of the comprehensive Israeli occupation aggression against the Palestinian people on ....

WHO: 7% of Gaza's population killed or injured in Israeli war

Date: 2025-01-05 09:07:10 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:11015664

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (MENA) - The World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in the Palestinian territories Rik Peeperkorn said approximately 7% of Gaza's population has been killed or injured due to the Israeli war on the strip. “More than 25% ....

UN has no plans to replace UNRWA in Palestinian territories - official

Date: 2025-01-05 08:57:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:11015655

GAZA CITY, Jan 5 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stressed that "the United Nations does not plan to replace the agency in the Palestinian territories, and the Knesset must retract the decision to ....

One killed, four injured by Israeli occupation forces in Jenin, Nablus

Date: 2025-01-05 08:21:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:11015629

GAZA CITY, Jan 5 (MENA) - A Palestinian citizen was shot and killed Sunday morning by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on the town of Meithalun, south of Jenin, the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that a large number of Israeli ....

All hospitals in north Gaza out of service: Head of hospital in North Gaza

Date: 2025-01-04 12:17:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:11014928

CAIRO, Jan 4 (MENA) – Director of Red Crescent hospital in Gaza Bashar Morad asserted on Saturday that all the hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are completely out of service and all the medical services were stopped. In a phone-in on Al ....

Iraqi president: Committed to preventing use of Iraq’s land base for aggression against any neighbor

Date: 2025-01-04 10:52:20 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:11014798

BAGHDAD, Jan 4 (MENA) - Iraqi President Abd al-Latif Jamal Rashid emphasized on Saturday the importance of consolidating unity in Iraq, reaffirming the country’s commitment to not allowing its territory to be used as a base for aggression against ....

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza claim dozens of lives as Israel's aggression counties

Date: 2025-01-04 08:26:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:11014676

GAZA CITY, Jan 4 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured last night and at dawn due to the ongoing Israeli occupation shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said. WAFA correspondent reported ....

At least 11 civilians killed, dozens wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Shuja'iyya neighborhood in Gaza

Date: 2025-01-04 08:19:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:11014665

GAZA CITY, Jan 4 (MENA) - At least 11 civilians were killed on Saturday in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said. Medical sources reported that the occupation's ....