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  • UN chief calls for ending Gaza war nightmare, unconditional release of all hostages

    Date: 2024-09-01 13:19:10 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:10852197

    NEW YORK, Sept 1 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for “the unconditional release of all hostages and an end to the nightmare of war in Gaza,” after Israel’s military said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages, ....

  • Israeli forces detain 36 Palestinians in West Bank in 24 hours

    Date: 2024-09-01 10:39:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:10851918

    RAMALLAH, Sept 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained at least 36 Palestinians from the West Bank during the last 24 hours, including a journalist, four female students from Hebron, and several former prisoners, according to prisoner advocacy ....

  • Palestinian official urges end to Israeli attacks on health facilities in Gaza

    Date: 2024-09-01 10:22:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:10851888

    RAMALLAH, Sept 1 (MENA) - Nancy Fawzi, Director General of the Ramallah Health Directorate, called on all world countries and international institutions to intervene to stop targeting health facilities and infrastructure in order to be able to ....

  • Mass polio vaccinations in Gaza amid limited pause in fighting, UN says

    Date: 2024-09-01 09:59:21 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:10851883

    WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (MENA) - A mass polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Sunday to immunize more than 600,000 children, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) ....

  • Palestinian NOGs: Israeli occupation seeks to terminate "national Palestinian project"

    Date: 2024-09-01 09:05:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:10851728

    GAZA CITY, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation seeks to keep the cycle of violence ongoing against the Palestinian people to end the Palestinian national project, said head of Palestinian NGOs Network Amjad Al Shawa Sunday. In statements to ....

  • Netanyahu tries to gain time: Israeli minister

    Date: 2024-09-01 08:47:47 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:10851734

    RAMALLAH, Sept 1 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to gain time for political reasons, said Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz. He, meanwhile, urged the Israeli people to go to the streets for protests and call to ....

  • Israeli occupation forces continue assault on Jenin for fifth consecutive day

    Date: 2024-09-01 08:08:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10851675

    RAMALLAH, Sept 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces are continuing their wide-scale assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the fifth consecutive day, according to WAFA News Agency. On the fifth day of the ongoing military attack, ....

  • Jordanian FM condemns Israel's justifications for West Bank aggression as fabrications

    Date: 2024-09-01 07:51:41 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:10851646

    AMMAN, Sept 1 (MENA) - Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi has strongly condemned Israel's justifications for its recent aggression in the West Bank, labeling them as outright ....

  • UNICEF in race against time to prevent spread of polio in Gaza: Spokesman

    Date: 2024-09-01 07:41:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10851650

    RAMLLAH, Sept 1 (MENA) - Spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Kazem Abu Khalaf has revealed that that there is a race against time to prevent the spread of polio in the Gaza Strip. The vaccination campaign aims to target ....

  • Biden: US keeps working for release of hostages held by Hamas

    Date: 2024-09-01 07:35:10 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10851635

    GAZA CITY, Sept 1 (MENA) - President Joe Biden said the US will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas. Earlier Sunday, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered ....

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