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2 killed, others injured in Israeli raid on Lebanon's Aita Al Shaab town

Date: 2024-04-05 14:46:59 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:10651558

BEIRUT, April 5 (MENA) - Two persons were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese town of Aita Al-Shaab. The Israeli warplanes also launched a raid on the town of Kafr kila targeted a house near the separation ....

Czech Republic to release another CZK 10 million in aid to Gaza

Date: 2024-04-05 14:07:56 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10651452

BRUSSELS, April 5 (MENA) - The Czech Republic will release an additional CZK 10 million to the World Food Program (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Gaza, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on Friday. In January of this year the government ....

Italian PM: We seek to reach ceasefire in Gaza along with hostage release

Date: 2024-04-05 13:47:39 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:10651480

ROME, April 5 (MENA) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni affirmed her country's efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip concurrently with the release of hostages. Meloni stated - in a statement reported by the Italian news agency ....

United Nations Human Rights Council adopts a resolution calling for an immediate halt to any arms sales to Israel

Date: 2024-04-05 13:01:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10651368

Geneva, April 5 (MENA) - The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution Friday calling for an immediate halt to any arms sales to Israel in light of its ongoing aggression against Gaza, warning of the possibility of "genocide" against ....

Israel has to be held accountable for crimes in Gaza: Palestine

Date: 2024-04-05 12:27:44 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:10651398

GENEVA, April 5 (MENA) - Palestine representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council Ibrahim Kreisha called for Israel to be held accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people. In his speech during the session of the United ....

Israel agrees to increase humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza

Date: 2024-04-05 12:26:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:10651323

RAMALLAH, April 5 (MENA) - Israel’s security cabinet decided to take immediate steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the Prime Minister’s Office announced early Friday. Israel will temporarily open up Ashdod Port for humanitarian ....

On Palestinian Children's Day, 200 Palestinian children held in Israeli detention

Date: 2024-04-05 06:34:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:10651055

RAMALLAH, April 5 (MENA) - On the occasion of the Palestinian Children's Day, prisoner advocacy groups said that more than 200 Palestinian children are currently incarcerated in Israeli prisons, including 23 children from the Gaza Strip detained in ....

UN resumes night-time aid deliveries to Gaza

Date: 2024-04-04 19:51:52 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:10650878

NEW YORK, April 4 (MENA) – UN officials launched assessment visits to Gaza and its agencies will resume night-time aid deliveries on Thursday after a 48-hour pause following Israeli forces killing seven World Central Kitchen relief workers in a ....

Over 600 legal experts urge UK govt to halt arms sales to Israel

Date: 2024-04-04 15:36:34 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10650618

LONDON, April 4 (MENA) - Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 members of the British legal profession in calling for the government to halt arms sales to Israel, saying it could make Britain complicit in genocide in Gaza, ....

Biden rebukes Israel over aid workers, but his Gaza policy is unchanged

Date: 2024-04-04 12:28:19 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:10650344

WASHINGTON, April 4 (MENA) - As outrage built Tuesday over an Israeli strike that killed seven workers from the José Andrés-run World Central Kitchen, US President Joe Biden issued a rare direct rebuke of Israel for creating the conditions that have ....