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Israeli forces raid multiple areas in occupied West Bank

Date: 2024-12-15 21:38:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:10992868

RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) – Israeli forces conducted on Sunday a series of raids into several areas in Ramallah and Salfit governorates in the central and northern occupied West Bank. According to Palestinian security sources cited by WAFA News ....

20 civilians, including children, killed in Israeli strike on UNRWA-run school in Gaza

Date: 2024-12-15 20:34:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10992854

GAZA CITY, Dec 15 (MENA) - At least 20 civilians, including children, were killed and others were injured on Sunday night in an Israeli shelling targeting a UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced families in western Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza ....

Irish PM says Israel's decision to close Dublin embassy 'deeply regrettable'

Date: 2024-12-15 15:57:13 GMT - Ireland - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10992492

DUBLIN, Dec 15 (MENA) - Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called Israel's decision to close its embassy in Dublin as "deeply regrettable." Earlier today, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that he would be closing the embassy, citing ....

The Guardian: Syrians must be free to chart their own path

Date: 2024-12-15 13:47:47 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:10992170

LONDON, Dec 15 (MENA) - Russia, Iran, Turkey and the US – key external players in Syria’s long-running drama – all agreed that the Arab country’s “sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity” must be respected and maintained. Each separately ....

Israeli forces raid two universities in Hebron

Date: 2024-12-14 08:38:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10990732

RAMALLAH, Dec 14 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Saturday stormed the city of Hebron and the University of Hebron and the Palestine Polytechnic University. Security and local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the ....

7 Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting Gaza

Date: 2024-12-14 08:25:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10990692

GAZA CITY, Dec 14 (MENA) - Seven Palestinians were killed and others injured at dawn on Saturday in the ongoing occupation bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip, according to Wafa news agency. In the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, ....

President Abbas discusses latest developments with Italian PM in Rome

Date: 2024-12-13 21:18:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10990540

RAMALLAH/ROME, Dec 13 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas Friday met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, where they discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian cause amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by the ....

Kuwait condemns Israeli occupation's massacre in Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza

Date: 2024-12-13 21:08:11 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10990538

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 13 (MENA) - The State of Kuwait has condemned the Israeli occupation Thursday's brutal massacre against Palestinian people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, KUNA reported. In a press statement on Friday, the ....

UNRWA: Israel’s ban on UNRWA aims to strip Palestinian refugees of their right to return

Date: 2024-12-13 21:01:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10990532

RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, Dec 13 (MENA) - Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), stressed on Friday that Israel’s efforts to eliminate the relief agency’s operations are ....

UN Coordinator for OPT raises alarm over Gaza's escalating humanitarian crisis

Date: 2024-12-13 20:19:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:10990498

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Muhannad Hadi expressed deep concern over the rapidly worsening security and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, stating that civilians are bearing ....