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9 Lebanese citizens, including mother, her two children, killed in Israeli airstrike

Date: 2024-08-17 07:36:06 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:10832139

BEIRUT, Aug 17 (MENA) - Early this morning, nine Lebanese citizens, including a mother and her two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon. Additionally, five others sustained injuries in the ....

Death toll from Israeli airstrike on Al-Zawaida area in Gaza rises to 15

Date: 2024-08-17 07:13:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:10832112

RAMALLAH/GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Medical sources reported that the death toll from the Israeli airstrike on the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 15. The occupation's warplanes targeted at dawn tonight a house belonging ....

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza result in multiple casualties

Date: 2024-08-17 05:51:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:10832039

GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Early this morning, at least 11 Palestinian civilians were killed, and several others were injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting various areas across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said Saturday. In ....

UN rapporteur: Food system in Gaza reached 'breaking point'

Date: 2024-08-16 21:44:43 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:10831982

GENEVA, Aug 16 (MENA) - UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri said the food system in the Gaza Strip has reached a breaking point, emphasizing the necessity of allowing aid delivery to the devastated enclave. In statements to ....

UN official condemns sexual assault on Palestinian prisoner

Date: 2024-08-16 19:16:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:10831892

RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Gil Edwards has condemned a sexual assault on a Palestinian prisoner by Israeli occupation soldiers in Israel’s Sde Teiman, WAFA reported. "There are no circumstances, however ....

Borrell threatens EU sanctions after Israeli settler attack on Palestinian village in West Bank

Date: 2024-08-16 19:14:19 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10831922

BRUSSELS, Aug 16 (MENA) - The EU foreign policy chief condemned the latest attack by Israeli settlers against a Palestinian village near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, saying he plans to propose further sanctions against their supporters, ....

UN chief urges for humanitarian pauses to conduct crucial polio vaccination campaign in Gaza

Date: 2024-08-16 19:12:21 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10831885

NEW YORK, Aug 16 (MENA) - The United Nations is poised to launch a vital polio vaccine campaign in Gaza for more than 640,000 children under the age of 10, Secretary-General António Guterres announced Friday. "Gaza is in a humanitarian freefall. ....

Blinken to visit Israel Saturday to discuss concluding ceasefire deal

Date: 2024-08-16 19:02:53 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10831906

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Israel on Saturday to continue intensive diplomatic efforts to conclude an agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees through the bridging ....

UN urges for holding Israeli settlers accountable for WB village attack

Date: 2024-08-16 18:08:51 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10831832

NEW YORK, Aug 16 (MENA) - Echoing widespread condemnation internationally and within Israel of the attack reportedly by Israeli settlers on the village of Jit on Thursday which left a Palestinian man dead and about a dozen injured, OHCHR ....

UNRWA urges humanitarian 7-day truce in Gaza for polio vaccination campaign

Date: 2024-08-16 16:19:21 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:10831796

GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - Two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are expected to be launched at the end of August and September 2024 across the Gaza Strip to prevent the spread of circulating variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2), according to an ....