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US to continue leading int'l efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to Palestinians: Biden

Date: 2024-03-20 10:52:56 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:10631213

WASHINGTON, March 20 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said that the war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people, adding "we will continue to lead international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to them—including ....

Day 166 of Genocide: Dozens of Palestinian civilians killed in ongoing Israeli bombardment in Gaza

Date: 2024-03-20 08:24:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10631108

GAZA, March 20 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinian civilians were Wednesday dawn killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling of homes, buildings and apartments in various areas of the Gaza Strip as the ongoing brutal Israeli ....

23 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City

Date: 2024-03-19 21:34:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:10630888

GAZA CITY, March 19 (MENA) - As many as 23 Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians at Kuwait Square in Gaza City situated in the northern part of the war-battered Gaza Strip on Tuesday ....

'We cannot have children starving to death in Gaza,' says UNICEF chief

Date: 2024-03-19 21:31:47 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:10630881

BRUSSELS, March 19 (MENA) – Catherine Russell, the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), sounded the alarm about the plight of children in Gaza after more than five months of war launched by Israel. In an interview ....

Documents reveal alleged pattern of Israeli harassment of UNRWA workers in West Bank

Date: 2024-03-19 19:54:04 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:10630802

LONDON, March 19 (MENA) - UN staff working with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been subjected to a systematic campaign of obstruction and harassment by the Israeli military and authorities since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza ....

Military offensive in Rafah shouldn't proceed without plan to ensure civilians' safety: US defense sec.

Date: 2024-03-19 19:52:42 GMT - Germany - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:10630725

RAMSTEIN, Germany, March 19 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said civilians in Gaza must be protected and provided with necessary humanitarian assistance. During a news conference at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Tuesday, Austin ....

UN says Israeli restrictions on Gaza food aid may constitute a war crime

Date: 2024-03-19 19:51:05 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:10630805

NEW YORK, March 19 (MENA) – Israeli restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza may amount to the war crime of deliberate starvation, the UN has said, as the White House called for unimpeded access for aid to the coastal strip. Amid ....

Al Qassam Brigades target 7 Israeli vehicles near Al Shifa Hospital

Date: 2024-03-19 19:10:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:10630784

GAZA CITY, March 19 (MENA) - Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas movement, announced Tuesday that its fighters targeted a total of seven Israeli vehicles with the ''Yassine-105'' rockets in the vicinity of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza ....

Two Palestinians shot by Israeli forces in West Bank

Date: 2024-03-19 18:47:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:10630748

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. A youth from Jenin was killed by the Israeli occupation troops, said Palestinian security sources, adding that the corpse is held by the Israeli ....

Meloni reiterates Italy's opposition to Israeli military offensive in Gaza's Rafah

Date: 2024-03-19 18:37:18 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:10630737

ROME, March 19 (MENA) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has reiterated Italy's opposition to an offensive by Israel in the southern Gazan city of Rafah where over a million Palestinians face looming starvation, ANSA news agency ....