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  • ERC deploys urgent response teams in squares, mosques, tourist sites

    Date: 2024-06-18 15:19:08 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:10751683

    CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) – The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) has raised the degree of readiness to the maximum since the first day of Eidul Adha by deploying urgent response teams at mosques, squares and tourist sites via ERC volunteers who are trained ....

  • Biden, Irish PM discuss bilateral ties, Gaza war over phone

    Date: 2024-06-18 08:25:45 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10751360

    WASHINGTON, June 18 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden spoke with Taoiseach Simon Harris of Ireland to discuss continued cooperation with the Irish government on shared priorities, particularly deepening US-Ireland ties, according to a readout by the ....

  • US designated Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya as terrorist group

    Date: 2024-06-18 07:53:15 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10751358

    WASHINGTON, June 18 (MENA) - The US Department of State is designating Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA) and HAAA Secretary General Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) pursuant to Executive Order ....

  • UNRWA stresses need to reach ceasefire in Gaza, allow entry of humanitarian aid

    Date: 2024-06-17 15:59:04 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:10751060

    CAIRO, June 17 (MENA) - Adnan Abu Hasna, the UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, stressed the need to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and allow the entry of humanitarian aid, medicines, medical personnel and water. In statements to state-owned Nile News ....

  • Death toll in Gaza rises to 37,347 as Israel continues its aggression

    Date: 2024-06-17 12:53:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10750955

    GAZA CITY, June 17 (MENA) - The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, has now surged to 37,347, medical sources confirmed on Monday. Sources added that at least 85,372 others have ....

  • US moves to head off war between Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah

    Date: 2024-06-17 12:33:50 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:10750821

    WASHINGTON, June 17 (MENA) - US special envoy Amos Hochstein will meet with top officials in Israel to push diplomatic efforts aimed at keeping months of attacks between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah from escalating into a wider conflict, The Wall ....

  • Israeli officials say Netanyahu has dissolved War Cabinet after key partner bolted government

    Date: 2024-06-17 10:08:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:10750704

    RAMALLAH, June 17 (MENA) - Israeli officials said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential War Cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza. The War Cabinet was dissolved following the departure ....

  • US-led coalition’s aircraft violate Syrian airspace 14 times in one day

    Date: 2024-06-16 21:20:25 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:10750427

    MOSCOW, June 16 (MENA) - The US-led coalition’s aircraft violated Syria’s airspace in the al-Tanf area 14 times over the past 24 hours, Yury Popov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of ....

  • UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel, aid to Gaza: Oxfam

    Date: 2024-06-16 17:53:18 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:10750318

    LONDON, June 16 (MENA) - Providing arms to Israel while offering humanitarian aid to Gaza at the same time is “intellectually and morally incoherent,” the head of Oxfam GB said. In an interview with the Guardian on Sunday, Halima Begum, who took ....

  • Death toll from Israeli military offensive in Gaza Strip rises to 37,337

    Date: 2024-06-16 16:37:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10750337

    GAZA, June 16 (MENA) - Israeli occupation army airstrikes targeting al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip today killed six Palestinians, including an infant, and injured scores, the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported Sunday. Local ....

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