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Palestinian President chairs PLO Executive Committee meeting; Al-Ahmad elected as Secretary-General

Date: 2025-05-03 21:13:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:11163579

RAMALLAH, May 3 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chaired a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Executive Committee on Saturday at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, WAFA reported. At the start of the ....

Israeli raids target areas in Southern Lebanon

Date: 2025-05-03 17:49:55 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:11163385

BEIRUT, May 3 (MENA) – Israeli forces launched a drone strike between Markaba and Tallousa areas in Southern Lebanon, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. The occupation forces also dropped a sound bomb on the same targeted area between ....

Palestinian woman killed, 5 injured in Israeli airstrike on tent sheltering IDPs

Date: 2025-05-03 17:21:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:11163386

RAMALLAH, May 3 (MENA) - A Palestinian woman was killed and five others were injured on Saturday when Israeli warplanes bombed a tent sheltering internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, WAFA ....

UNICEF urges int’l community to pressure Israel to allow entry of aid to Gaza

Date: 2025-05-03 15:54:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:11163244

GAZA CITY, May 3 (MENA) - United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson Kazem Abu Khalaf called on the international community to exert all forms of pressure on the Israeli occupation authority to let humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip ....

Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza surges to 52,495

Date: 2025-05-03 14:15:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:11163105

GAZA CITY, May 3 (MENA) – The number of civilians killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th, 2023, has surged to 52,495, the majority of whom are children and women. At least 118,366 others have also been ....

Netanyahu says to okay expanded Gaza op, with forces readying for major reservist call-up

Date: 2025-05-03 08:04:56 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:11162643

GAZA CITY, May 3 (MENA) - Israel is slated to call up thousands of reservists as it readies for a significant expansion of its ongoing military operation in Gaza amid the failure to reach a new ceasefire deal with Hamas, according to multiple media ....

A total of 19 Palestinians killed, others injured in series of Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis

Date: 2025-05-03 07:16:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:11162604

GAZA CITY, May 3 (MENA) - Nineteen Palestinians were killed and others injured this morning, Saturday, in the Israeli occupation's bombing of civilian homes and tents for displaced people in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. WAFA ....

Arab League defends UNRWA at ICJ hearings on Israel's humanitarian aid obligations

Date: 2025-05-02 22:11:03 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:11162438

CAIRO, May 3 (MENA) - The General Secretariat of the Arab League (AL) presented Friday its oral statement to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and ....

Gaza children at increasing risk of hunger, disease, death under blockade: UNICEF

Date: 2025-05-02 19:56:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:11162367

RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, May 2 (MENA) - Children in Gaza face an increasing risk of hunger, disease, and death due to the ongoing stifling Israeli blockade of the Strip, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned Friday, stressing that there is no ....

Syria condemns Israeli airstrike on presidential palace

Date: 2025-05-02 15:41:45 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:11162258

DAMASCUS, May 2 (MENA) - The Syrian presidency condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli airstrike on the country's presidential palace, describing it as ” a dangerous escalation” against the state institutions and sovereignty, stressing that ....