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US defense secretary: "Will not tolerate" attacks on troops in Middle East

Date: 2024-08-07 06:12:28 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10818790

WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (MENA) - The United States will not tolerate attacks on American troops in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, after rocket fire in Iraq wounded five US personnel. The Monday attack was the third in ....

Blinken says Gaza ceasefire negotiations in their final stage

Date: 2024-08-07 03:54:56 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:10818726

WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (MENA) - A protracted effort to broker a ceasefire and hostage release deal has reached “the decisive moment” for a deal between Israel and Hamas, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who pitched the pact as an off-ramp ....

Hamas names Sinwar as leader after Haniyeh assassination

Date: 2024-08-06 19:56:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:10818638

GAZA, Aug 6 (MENA) – Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, the group said on Tuesday. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran last week. (MENA) K F E/R E E ....

Italian FM: We care about protection of our citizens in Lebanon, army personnel in UNIFIL

Date: 2024-08-06 18:55:55 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:10818504

ROME, Aug 6 (MENA) - Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Tuesday his primary concern is to protect Italian citizens in Lebanon and Italian army personnel in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). This came in a speech ....

EU’s Borrell: Middle East is on “brink of a war of unknown proportions”

Date: 2024-08-06 17:20:30 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:10818404

BRUSSELS, Aug 6 (MENA) - The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has said the Middle East is on the “brink of a war of unknown proportions”, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. There is consensus on the need for a ceasefire in Gaza to “prevent ....

Israel shells towns in southern Lebanon

Date: 2024-08-06 17:09:12 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10818457

BEIRUT, Aug 6 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces continued Tuesday shelling villages and towns in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah targeted Israeli army barracks. National News Agency in Lebanon (NNA) reported that an Israeli raid targeted the ....

Italy donates 15 trucks to WFP for distributing food aid in Gaza

Date: 2024-08-06 17:05:22 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:10818282

ROME, Aug 6 (MENA) - Prompted by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation signed an agreement with the World ....

UN Human Rights Commission dismayed due to Israel’s targeting of Gaza schools

Date: 2024-08-06 17:02:14 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10818399

GENEVA, Aug 6 (MENA) - The United Nations Human Rights Commission expressed shock at the growing pattern of raids launched by the Israeli occupation army on schools in Gaza, which it said are killing internally displaced Palestinians seeking shelter ....

Death toll from Israeli bombing in Rafah, Gaza rises to 3, many injured

Date: 2024-08-06 16:58:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10818374

GAZA CITY, Aug 6 (MENA) - The death toll from Israeli occupation forces' bombing of the cities of Rafah and Gaza Tuesday rose to three martyrs with many others reportedly wounded. The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) said that an Israeli army drone ....

Israeli bombing of Gaza's Rafah city kills Palestinian civilian, injures another

Date: 2024-08-06 15:01:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:10818222

RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (MENA) - A Palestinian civilian was killed and another one was wounded in an Israeli bombing of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. State news agency WAFA quoted eyewitnesses as saying that an Israeli drone ....