ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has rejected claims circulated in Israel and on social media that an agency staff member was killed alongside Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip. The reports have been denounced as part of a disinformation campaign to undermine the agency and […...
ANKARA (AA) – Recalling the US warning to Israel to improve humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, the EU foreign policy chief has slammed Washington for giving another month to Israel while “too many people” are being killed there. “They gave one-month delay” during which “too many people” would be killed, Josep ...
GENEVA (AA) – The United Nations says Lebanon’s densely populated capital Beirut is increasingly being targeted by Israel. Hundreds have been killed, and over a million people have fled their homes throughout the country, with the situation for civilians on the ground in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria worsening every day. “Just last night, Beirut was...
ANKARA (AA) – One year into a devastating Israeli war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to be forcibly displaced across the Gaza Strip amid destruction, hunger, and fear. The Israeli army launched a brutal offensive on Gaza following a Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. It has killed nearly 42,000, mostly women and children, [&h...
Israel has barred the UN secretary-general from entering the country, declaring him officially unwelcome. Foreign minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday he has declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel and banned him from entering the country. Several UN officials similarly have been banned in recent months, ...
GAZA CITY- (AA) – In the corridors of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in Gaza, a grim scene unfolds. Children with amputated limbs sit silently, while displaced families line the hallways, some with IV drips hanging from doorways. Dr. Mohammad Ashraf, a Palestinian emergency doctor at Gaza’s largest hospital and project of...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is calling for “humanitarian pauses” to provide children in Gaza with a second dose of polio vaccines. Around 560,000 Palestinian children under 10 received the first dose as part of a polio vaccination campaign from September 1 to 12. According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedro...
ANKARA (AA) – Six staffers of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) were among those killed in an Israeli attack on a UN-run school in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. At least 18 people were killed in two airstrikes on al-Jaouni School in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Wednesday, according to local health […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has announced that its teams vaccinated more than 160,000 children the first day of the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign in southern Gaza. “Thousands of families went to health facilities to receive vaccines from UNRWA medical teams,” the UN agency said on X. [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The chief of the UN Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has called for the protection of Palestinian civilians amid a deadly Israeli offensive in the northern West Bank. “For more than six days now, Jenin has been ravaged by violence and destruction. This is causing loss of life and injuries, including among […]
