Geneva, Switzerland – AFP More than 8,000 children aged under five have been treated in the Gaza Strip for acute malnutrition since Israel launched its war on the region, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 28 of those children had died and a significant proportion of Gaza’s po...
Tel Aviv, Israel – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “reaffirmed his commitment” to a Gaza cease-fire proposal during their meeting in Jerusalem. “I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu last night and he reaffirmed his commitment to the proposal,”...
ATHENS (AA) – The EU says it welcomes the UN Security Council resolution on a latest cease-fire proposal in Gaza. “The European Union welcomes the adoption of the United Nations Security Council resolution 2735, supporting the new ceasefire proposal announced on 31 May,” it said in a statement. Also calling for implementation of UN Security [&...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The UN has voiced alarm at the civilian toll of Israel’s rescue of four Israeli prisoners in Gaza, and the fact that Palestinian armed groups are holding captives there. “We are profoundly shocked at the impact on civilians of the Israeli forces’ operation in An Nuseirat at the weekend to secur...
United Nations, United States – AFP The UN World Food Programme has suspended the delivery of aid to Gaza via a temporary US military pier in order to assess the security situation, a spokesperson said Monday. Stephane Dujarric linked the move to an Israeli prisoner rescue operation over the weekend that freed four people, but […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Emergency teams in Gaza retrieved on Monday bodies of Palestinians following a five-day incursion by the Israeli army into the eastern regions of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, sources and witnesses said. The military withdrew from the city, but Palestinians attempting to return to their homes were targete...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading back to the Middle East on Monday to push a cease-fire plan, but Israeli politics and silence from Hamas raised further questions on whether he can succeed. The top US diplomat, paying his eighth visit to the region since October last year, was […]
London, United Kingdom – AFP Thousands of people marched through central London to parliament on Saturday calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza. Protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted: “End the genocide” and “Free, free Palestine”. The demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has extended the closure of the Qatari Al Jazeera television. “We will not allow the Al Jazeera terrorist channel to broadcast in Israel and endanger our soldiers,” Kahri said in a statement. The Israeli minister claimed that the ban was “unanimously adopted by the government, based...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – With hundreds of patients awaiting help, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is struggling to provide medical attention to the victims of a deadly Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. At least 274 people were killed and nearly 700 others injured in Israeli bombardment of the […]
