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Half a million Gazans face 'catastrophic food insecurity': WFP

Date: 2024-06-25 15:35:31 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10759253

ROME, June 25 (MENA) - About half a million people in Gaza face "catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity" as aid deliveries dwindle, a UN-backed report said. The latest findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ....

Death toll in Gaza rises to 37,658 as Israel continues its aggression

Date: 2024-06-25 13:54:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:10758997

GAZA, June 25, 2024 (MENA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, has now surged to 37,658, medical sources confirmed on Tuesday. Sources added that at least 86,237 others have ....

Pentagon: US defense secretary confers with Gallant on latest developments in ME

Date: 2024-06-25 12:40:48 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10758810

WASHINGTON, June 25 (MENA) - The press secretary for the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) Major General Pat Ryder stated that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is discussing developments in the Middle East with his Israeli counterpart Yoav ....

Netanyahu dismisses cease-fire proposal, angering hostage families: Washington Post

Date: 2024-06-25 09:39:30 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:10758346

WASHINGTON, June 25 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to dismiss the cease-fire proposal backed by President Biden, angering the families of Israeli hostages who accused him of not honoring a key element of the plan: a full ....

Kuwait condemns Israeli occupation's attacks on hospitals, UN agencies in Palestine

Date: 2024-06-25 09:32:44 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:10758553

KUWAIT, June 25 (MENA) - Kuwait strongly condemned the ongoing attacks targeting facilities, places of worship, hospitals and buildings affiliated with the United Nations (UN), including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine ....

WHO: 10,000 people need medical evacuations outside Gaza

Date: 2024-06-25 07:41:12 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10758257

GENEVA, June 25 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said that more than 10,000 people need medical evacuations outside Gaza, according to the website of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The ....

Blinken meets Gallant, discusses efforts to achieve ceasefire in Gaza

Date: 2024-06-25 05:01:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:10758164

WASHINGTON, June 25 (MENA) - Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to discuss ongoing efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza that secures the release of all hostages and alleviates the suffering of the ....

Palestinian cause facing grave threat amid Israel's ongoing policy of genocide: Abbas

Date: 2024-06-24 21:28:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:10758125

RAMALLAH, June 24 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned about the grave threat to the Palestinian national cause amid the Israeli occupation's ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people throughout the occupied Palestinian ....

One in five households in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says

Date: 2024-06-24 20:27:46 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:10758081

LONDON, June 24 (MENA) - More than half of households in Gaza have had to sell or swap their clothes to be able to buy food, the UN is to report, as a high risk of famine remains across the whole of the territory after a new round of violence in ....

Lazzarini: Gaza situation catastrophic; Israel seeks to dismantle UNRWA

Date: 2024-06-24 18:23:54 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:10757998

GENEVA, June 24 (MENA) - Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini said Monday the situation in the Gaza Strip was unbearable and a nightmare. This came during his speech ....