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US, Israeli FMs discuss steps to handle humanitarian situation in Gaza

Date: 2024-10-17 06:41:35 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:10914848

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (MENA) - US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant to review Israel's operations in Lebanon and broader regional security matters according to the Pentagon. Secretary ....

Egypt first advocate of Palestinian people's rights: Palestinian amb.

Date: 2024-10-16 20:53:05 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:10914700

CAIRO, Oct 16 (MENA) - Palestinian Ambassador in Cairo Diab Allouh hailed Wednesday Egypt's position towards the Palestinian cause, which is consistent with the Palestinian position, is against Israel's plans of forced displacement to expel ....

Aboul Gheit condemns Israeli brutal attacks on Southern Lebanon, northern Gaza

Date: 2024-10-16 14:53:40 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10914159

CAIRO, Oct 16 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Wednesday condemned the Israeli airstrike on Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon. The strike resulted in the killing and injuring of dozens, including the mayor and relief ....

Israel treats UN as inconvenience at best, adversary at worst: The Guardian

Date: 2024-10-16 10:10:45 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:10913719

LONDON, Oct 16 (MENA) - The United Nations is supposed to be above the fray – a forum for and facilitator of peaceful resolutions or, at the least, the minimization of harms. Yet for the last year, Israel has treated it as an inconvenience at best ....

5 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrike on civilian neighborhood

Date: 2024-10-16 10:08:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:10913716

GAZA CITY, Oct 16 (MENA) - Five citizens were killed at dawn on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City, WAFA reported. Local sources said that the Israeli airstrikes bombed a house near the Italian Tower in ....

UK imposes sanctions on seven groups that support West Bank settlers

Date: 2024-10-16 08:32:11 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:10913442

LONDON, Oct 16 (MENA) - The UK Foreign Office has announced sanctions against seven organizations that support illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but held back from penalizing two extremist members of the Israeli government as the former ....

Israel reviewing letter from US urging improvement in Gaza humanitarian situation

Date: 2024-10-16 06:56:38 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10913367

RAMALLAH, Oct 16 (MENA) - A letter from top US officials in which they told Israel to improve Gaza's humanitarian situation or risk military aid is being reviewed by Israel, an Israeli official in Washington said late on Tuesday. "Israel takes ....

UN: Humanitarian situation in northern Gaza 'catastrophic'

Date: 2024-10-16 06:47:00 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10913421

NEW YORK, Oct 16 (MENA) - The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warn that the humanitarian situation in the north is "catastrophic" as Israeli military operations there intensify, severely compromising people’s access to ....

UN human rights office calls for probe into Israeli strike that hit apartment block in northern Lebanon

Date: 2024-10-16 05:06:00 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:10913341

GENEVA, Oct 15 (MENA) - With no let-up to the ongoing Israel-Lebanon conflict, the UN human rights office on Tuesday called for an independent probe into an Israeli airstrike that hit an apartment block in northern Lebanon a day earlier that left a ....

UN urges Israel to ensure safety & security of UNIFIL peacekeepers

Date: 2024-10-15 22:03:45 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:10913303

NEW YORK, Oct 15 (MENA) - UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix reviewed with Israel's Ambassador at the UN Danny Danon the situation in southern Lebanon and how it would impact UN peacekeeping operations ....