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Pentagon says US strikes set Iran’s nuclear program back by 2 years

Date: 2025-07-02 21:33:12 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:11243589

WASHINGTON, July 2 (MENA) – The Pentagon said on Wednesday that recent airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities pushed Iran’s nuclear program back by up to two years. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell stated that the assessment, based on ....

Iran must fully 'cooperate with IAEA to resolve all issues': US State Dept.

Date: 2025-07-02 20:58:00 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:11243569

WASHINGTON, July 2 (MENA) - The US Department of State urged Iran to "fully cooperate and without delay with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resolve all the outstanding issues," especially after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ....

WHO: 23 patients evacuated from Gaza

Date: 2025-07-02 20:13:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:11243542

GAZA CITY, July 2 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) completed medical evacuations from Gaza to Jordan (19 child patients and 39 companions) and Turkey (four patients and seven companions), WAFA reported. During the evacuation, strikes ....

8 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee Camp

Date: 2025-07-02 18:40:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:11243491

GAZA CITY, July 2 (MENA) - Eight Palestinians, including three children, were killed and several others injured on Wednesday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according ....

Israel: 2 rockets fired from Gaza towards Sderot, Erez intercepted

Date: 2025-07-02 17:46:54 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:11243402

GAZA CITY, July 2 (MENA) - Israel announced that it had intercepted two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards the settlements of Sderot and Erez, Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported. Home Front Command activated the Red Alert siren ....

Airspace in central, western Iran reclosed to int’l transit flights: Gov’t

Date: 2025-07-02 15:48:53 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:11243157

TEHRAN, July 2 (MENA) – Iran’s airspace in central and western regions is reclosed to international transit flights, the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Roads and Urban Development said as quoted by Iran’s Mehr News Agency. Based on the ....

Hamas: We’re studying new proposals from mediators for a ceasefire

Date: 2025-07-02 15:43:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:11243193

GAZA CITY, July 2 (MENA) - The Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" affirmed that it is acting responsibly and conducting national consultations to discuss proposals received from mediators, with the aim of reaching an agreement that ensures an end ....

Arab League, AU, OIC call for urgent stop to genocide in Gaza

Date: 2025-07-02 15:16:28 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:11243121

CAIRO, July 2 (MENA) – The Arab League (AL), African Union (AU), and Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) issued a joint humanitarian appeal to stop the genocide, starvation, siege, displacement, and destruction in Gaza. The appeal came at ....

AU stresses need to adopt humanitarian appeal to halt genocide, starvation crimes in Gaza

Date: 2025-07-02 14:58:24 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:11242844

CAIRO, July 2 (MENA) - Head of the African Union's Permanent Delegation to the Arab League (AL) Ali Darwish stressed the urgent need to adopt a humanitarian appeal to halt the crimes of genocide, starvation, blockade, forced displacement, and ....

Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Date: 2025-07-02 14:43:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:11242982

GAZA CITY, July 2 ( MENA) - Seven Palestinians, including five members of the same family, were killed Wednesday following Israeli airstrikes on homes and a school in Gaza City. The Palestinian news agency, WAFA, said that five civilians were ....