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Abbas urges Israel UN membership freeze

Date: 2024-09-26 18:27:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:10888391

⁠RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, Sept 26 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Thursday on the United Nations General Assembly to freeze Israel's membership until it fulfills its obligations, and implements all the resolutions of the United Nations ....

US defense secretary warns against 'all-out' ME war

Date: 2024-09-26 17:16:05 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10888389

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (MENA) - US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Thursday there was a risk of all-out war in the Middle East. “A full scale war between Hezbollah and Israel could be devastating for both parties,” Austin said in London, after ....

Israeli defense ministers says he approved further operations on northern front

Date: 2024-09-26 16:52:46 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10888255

RAMALLAH, Sept 26 (MENA) - Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant approved Thursday further Israeli army operations on the northern front with Lebanon, according to a statement issued by the Israeli Defense Minister's Office. Israeli Jerusalem Post ....

Israeli FM rejects Lebanon ceasefire proposal

Date: 2024-09-26 15:31:07 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:10888058

GAZA CITY, Sept 26 (MENA) - Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday rejected a proposal from the United States and France, calling for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon. "There will be no ceasefire in the north," he posted on the social ....

20 persons, mostly Syrians, killed in Israeli attack on Lebanese town

Date: 2024-09-26 13:33:51 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:10888061

BEIRUT, Sept 26 (MENA) - Twenty persons, including 19 Syrian refugees, were killed in Younine town in South Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building housing workers, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Thursday. The strike came after ....

8 killed, several injured in Israeli raids on Gaza Strip

Date: 2024-09-26 08:12:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10887382

GAZA, Sept 26 (MENA) - At least eight civilians, including children and women, were killed and several others injured at dawn in the ongoing bombardment by Israeli occupation forces of several areas in the Gaza Strip. According to WAFA, medical ....

IOM says over 90,000 people displaced by latest military escalation in Lebanon

Date: 2024-09-26 07:35:14 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:10887332

BEIRUT, Sept 26 (MENA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has released its latest Mobility Tracking displacement update showing at least 90,350 people have become newly displaced since 19 September, following the latest military ....

Netanyahu says negotiations with Hezbollah "will only be under fire"

Date: 2024-09-25 20:53:45 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:10886998

RAMALLAH, Sept 25 (MENA) - Against the backdrop of reports of talks to de-escalate the situation on the northern border of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a security consultation with government ministers that "negotiations will ....

US imposes sanctions on networks enabling illicit trade benefiting Hezbollah

Date: 2024-09-25 20:14:31 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10886982

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (MENA) - The United States is imposing sanctions on one individual and four entities and identifying nine vessels as blocked property for their involvement in facilitating illicit trade to Syria and East Asia in support of ....

7 Palestinians martyred in Israeli shelling in central Gaza, southern Jenin

Date: 2024-09-25 16:41:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:10886711

GAZA CITY, Sept 25 (MENA) - Palestinian rescue teams recovered six martyrs Wednesday, including three children and a pregnant woman, in addition to a number of others injured, following an Israeli shelling that targeted a house in the Bureij camp in ....