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  • UNRWA seeks $ 1.2 bn to address unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza

    Date: 2024-04-24 14:29:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:10676318

    RAMALLAH, April 24 (MENA) - UNRWA is seeking $ 1.21 billion to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and respond to needs in the West Bank as violence increases. The Agency’s emergency appeal covers the Agency’s ....

  • 79 Palestinians killed by Israel over past 24 hours

    Date: 2024-04-24 12:55:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:10676136

    GAZA CITY, April 24 (MENA) - The health ministry in Gaza said Wednesday that at least 34,262 people have been killed in the territory during more than six months of the Israeli war in Gaza, according to Al Arabiya news. The tally includes at ....

  • UN chief lauds efforts by Azhar Imam to promote peace

    Date: 2024-04-24 11:46:43 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10675959

    CAIRO, April 24 (MENA) – Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres has commended efforts exerted by Dr Ahmed el Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al Ahzar, to promote peace, understanding and interfaith dialogue. Guterres, in a message to Tayyeb ....

  • Palestinians killed, others injured as Israel's aggression enters its 201st day

    Date: 2024-04-24 08:54:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:10675492

    GAZA CITY, April 24 (MENA) - A number of Palestinian civilians were Wednesday killed and others sustained various injuries in the ongoing occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has entered its 201st day. WAFA correspondent reported ....

  • 2 killed, 6 injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanese town of Hanin

    Date: 2024-04-23 22:23:13 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:10675061

    BEIRUT, April 23 (MENA) - An Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese town of Hanin left a two-storey house completely destroyed, two persons killed, and six others injured, NNA reported. Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes carried out an aerial ....

  • EU foreign policy chief encourages int’l community to stand by UNRWA

    Date: 2024-04-23 20:17:48 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:10675208

    BRUSSELS, April 23 (MENA) - The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, Joseph Borrell, welcomed Catherine Colonna's report on UNRWA which recognizes the UN relief Agency (UNRWA) as an irreplaceable and ....

  • 200 days into war, destruction everywhere in Gaza: UNRWA

    Date: 2024-04-23 18:59:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:10675002

    RAMALLAH, April 23 (MENA) - The debris left after Israel's airstrikes in Gaza for more than six months now would take years to remove, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) deplored in a statement. "Two ....

  • Egypt exerted 'utmost possible' efforts to allow entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip: Fatah spox

    Date: 2024-04-23 18:00:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:10674945

    RAMALLAH, April 23 (MENA) - Egypt has exerted its "utmost possible" efforts to allow the entry of humanitarian aid to the war-torn Gaza Strip, said Spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah movement Abdel Fattah Dawla. Egypt has never watched in ....

  • UNRWA official lauds report on neutrality mechanisms in Gaza

    Date: 2024-04-23 16:55:32 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:10674763

    CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) - Acting Director of the Information Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip Enas Hamdan commended the results of the report of the independent review of the UN ....

  • 58 int’l organizations call on UNSC to intervene immediately to achieve Gaza ceasefire

    Date: 2024-04-23 15:58:08 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:10674706

    CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – Some 58 international organizations called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This came in a statement issued by the international organizations to condemn ....

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