BEIRUT (AA) – Around 100,000 people have been displaced by Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, the country’s foreign minister said on Monday. “We have about 100,000 displaced people from the south as a result of recent events and Israeli attacks,” Abdullah Bou Habib said during a meeting with President of the International Committee of ...
KHAN YUNIS (AFP): The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has slammed the world leaders for their failure to stop killings in Gaza. “We can’t turn away from what is evidently a moral failure in the face of the international community,” said Mirjana Spoljaric after visiting the European hospital in...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ten Israelis held in the Gaza Strip were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Israeli Channel 12 reported on Tuesday, without providing further details. There was no official comment from Hamas and Israel regarding the report. Hamas on Tuesday released a list of 30 Palestinian inmates held [&helli...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The United Nations and the Red Cross have voiced alarm after Israeli forces raided Gaza’s largest hospital, demanding that patients and civilians be protected. Israeli forces entered Al-Shifa hospital early Wednesday, targeting what they alleged was a “Hamas command centre” in tunnels b...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza has risen to more than 338,000 amid intensified attacks on the besieged population. An OCHA official in Gaza, Hamada Al-Bayari, called for a humanitarian truce to allow relief workers to...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned of the dangers posed by the unexploded ordnances in the flood-hit eastern Libyan city of Derna. “Unexploded ordnances and abandoned munition stores could also pose an additional challenge to residents, emergency responders, and authorities,” an ICR...
GENEVA (AA) – Providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to people in Libya and Morocco who survived two massive lethal natural disasters is the top priority, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief has said. Speaking at a UN press conference about the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8 and the devastating floods in Libya on [&...
