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UN staff member killed in attack on car marked with UN flag in Rafah

Date: 2024-05-14 05:27:38 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:10704147

NEW YORK, May 14 (MENA) - A UN staff member employed by the UN Department of Safety and Security was killed while traveling in a UN vehicle in Rafah to the European Hospital, according to a statement by Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the secretary ....

UNRWA: Over 150,000 pregnant women are facing terrible sanitary conditions and health hazards in Gaza

Date: 2024-05-13 16:47:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10703801

GAZA CITY, May 13 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on its X account that more than 150,000 pregnant women are facing terrible sanitary conditions and health hazards amid the ....

Israeli army expands Rafah operation, bombards Jabalia, as settlers target aid trucks heading for Gaza

Date: 2024-05-13 15:49:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:10703612

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces expanded their incursion into the southern Gaza Strip's city of Rafah, as settlers targeted trucks carrying aid to the suffering people in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave. Within one week, ....

57 Palestinians martyred, 82 injured in 7 Israeli massacres in Gaza in 24 hours: Gaza health ministry

Date: 2024-05-13 14:20:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:10703542

GAZA CITY, May 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces committed seven massacres in the Gaza Strip which left 57 Palestinians martyred and 82 wounded in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the enclave said Monday. In a statement it added that ....

Guterres: War in Gaza causing horrific human suffering

Date: 2024-05-13 09:15:07 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:10702827

NEW YORK/KUWAIT CITY, May 13 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that the war in Gaza is causing horrific human suffering -- devastating lives, tearing families apart, and rendering huge numbers of people homeless, hungry, and ....

Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2024-05-13 06:45:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:10702664

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the holy mosque of Al Aqsa in occupied East Jerusalem early Monday under police protection. The settlers entered the mosque compound in groups from the Magharibah Gate, and conducted ....

Blinken discusses situation in Gaza with Israeli defense minister

Date: 2024-05-13 05:15:15 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:10702574

WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the Department of State said in a readout. The Secretary affirmed the ironclad US commitment to Israel’s security and the shared ....

300,000 Palestinians moved from east of Rafah to Al Mawasi area - UNRWA

Date: 2024-05-12 21:46:44 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:10702512

CAIRO, May 12 (MENA) – Gaza Acting Public Information Officer of UNRWA Inas Hamdan said that 300,000 Palestinian people had moved from east of Rafah city towards Al Mawasi area in central Gaza. In exclusive statements to Al Qahera News on Sunday, ....

Rafah assault part of Israel's plan to entirely destroy Gaza: Fatah

Date: 2024-05-12 15:37:50 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10702150

RAMALLAH, May 12 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah Movement Abdel Fattah Dawla Sunday said that Rafah operation is a part of an all-out assault scheme outlined by the Israeli government to entirely destroy the Gaza strip. "The genocide ....

Fatah spox. lauds Egypt's honorable stance towards Palestinians

Date: 2024-05-12 15:15:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:10702114

RAMALLAH, May 12 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah Movement Abdel Fattah Dawla Sunday praised Egypt' honorable stance towards Palestinian people at all political, security and media levels. The Israeli occupation has been targeting all ....