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  • Israel’s National Security Advisor expects war on Gaza to continue throughout 2024

    Date: 2024-05-29 13:39:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10726171

    RAMALLAH, May 29 (MENA) – Israel’s National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi said Wednesday the war on Gaza Strip would continue throughout 2024. Hanegbi added in statements to Israeli Kan public broadcaster, Israel now controls 75% of the ....

  • Lapid, Sa’ar, Liberman meet in effort to bring down Netanyahu government

    Date: 2024-05-29 12:22:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10725943

    RAMALLAH, May 29 (MENA) - Israeli opposition Leader Yair Lapid met with two heads of right-wing opposition parties in an attempt to coordinate a bloc that will work together to bring down the government, The Times of Israel reported ....

  • WHO delivers aid to north of Gaza for 1st time in 2 weeks

    Date: 2024-05-29 10:39:32 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10725675

    GENEVA, May 29 (MENA) - A World Health Organization mission reached the north of Gaza for the first time in more than two weeks, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. The mission delivered fuel, hospital beds, medicines and ....

  • Palestinian Red Crescent: Al-Quds hospital in Rafah was evacuated due to occupation threats

    Date: 2024-05-29 10:14:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:10725661

    GAZA CITY, May 29 (MENA) - The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that it evacuated the Society's Al-Quds Hospital from the Mawasi Rafah area to the Mawasi Khan Yunis area, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. PRCS said in a ....

  • UNRWA: Over 200 killed in Israeli attacks on Rafah

    Date: 2024-05-29 10:08:20 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10725659

    NEW YORK, May 29 (MENA) - Juliette Touma, Director of Communications for the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA), said that, according to some medical sources, at least 200 people were killed in the Israeli airstrikes that hit tents sheltering ....

  • Another senior US State Department official resigns over Gaza, taking aim at aid

    Date: 2024-05-29 09:44:19 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:10725379

    WASHINGTON, May 29 (MENA) - A career State Department official involved in the Biden administration’s contentious debates over Israel’s conduct in Gaza resigned this week, citing disagreements with a recently published US government report that ....

  • Israel names 3 soldiers killed by explosive in Rafah

    Date: 2024-05-29 09:37:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:10725649

    RAMALLAH, May 29 (MENA) - The Israeli forces on Wednesday named three soldiers of the 50th Battalion of the Nahal Brigade who were killed by an explosive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Yediot Ahronot reported. They are Staff Sgt. Amir ....

  • WCK pauses work at main kitchen in Rafah because of "ongoing attacks"

    Date: 2024-05-29 08:55:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:10725488

    GAZA CITY, May 29 (MENA) - World Central Kitchen (WCK) said is pausing its operations at the humanitarian organization's main kitchen in Rafah due to "ongoing attacks" in the face of Israeli operations there, CNN reported Wednesday. "In the face ....

  • Rafah border crossing should only be controlled by Egypt and Palestine - Palestinian president’s advisor

    Date: 2024-05-28 21:38:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:94 - ID:10725157

    RAMALLAH, May 28 (MENA) – Mahmoud Habbash, an advisor to the Palestinian president, has lauded the recognition of the Palestinian state by Spain, Norway and Ireland, noting that Rafah border crossing is an Egyptian-Palestinian land terminal that ....

  • US pier off Gaza to be removed, repaired after damage from rough seas

    Date: 2024-05-28 21:20:44 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:92 - ID:10725142

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - The temporary pier constructed by the US military to transport aid into Gaza broke apart and sustained damage in heavy seas on Tuesday in a major blow to the US-led effort to create a maritime corridor for humanitarian ....

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