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Jordanian FM: Israeli aggression on Gaza is biggest threat to regional security

Date: 2024-01-12 13:39:23 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:10530604

AMMAN, Jan 12 (MENA) - Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi on Friday warned that the region's rising tension is caused by Israel's ruthless aggression against Gaza, its ongoing war crimes ....

17 Palestinians killed in Rafah, Khan Yunis of Gaza Strip

Date: 2024-01-11 23:11:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:10529970

GAZA CITY, Jan 11 (MENA) – Nine civilians were killed and several others were injured on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential home in the Shawka neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, WAFA ....

Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict: Oxfam

Date: 2024-01-11 19:49:30 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:10529836

LONDON, Jan 11 (MENA) - Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day which massively exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years, Oxfam said Thursday, as the escalation of hostilities ....

112 Palestinians killed in 24 hrs, 32 martyrs in Khan Younis

Date: 2024-01-11 18:33:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:10529754

RAMALLAH, Jan 11 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation has committed 10 massacres in the Gaza Strip that left 112 martyrs and 194 others injured over the past 24 hours. The figures indicate only those who arrived at hospitals, according to the Health ....

EU: Israeli government representatives' declarations about making life impossible for Palestinians in Gaza counter productive, dangerous

Date: 2024-01-11 16:56:37 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:10529609

BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (MENA) - High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said declarations by some Israeli government representatives about making life impossible for civilians in Gaza ultimately ....

OIC welcomes South Africa's legal action against Israel at ICJ

Date: 2024-01-11 16:52:38 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:10529549

RIYADH, Jan 11 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has welcomed the petition filed by the Republic of South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel, the occupying power, of committing genocide against ....

25 wounded Gazans, 169 aid trucks cross Rafah border terminal

Date: 2024-01-11 16:20:44 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10529542

RAFAH, Egypt Jan 11 (MENA) - Rafah border terminal received Thursday morning 25 wounded Gazans and 250 holders of Egyptian and foreign passports and witnessed the entry of 169 humanitarian aid trucks into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. In a press ....

Two medics killed in Israeli bombing of civil defense center in South Lebanon

Date: 2024-01-11 16:03:01 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:10529596

NABATIEH, South Lebanon, Jan 11 (MENA) - Two paramedics were killed in an Israeli attack on the civil defense center in Hanine town in South Lebanon on Thursday, according to the civil defense operations room of Hezbollah Health Authority. The ....

IFRC condemns killing of 4 members of Palestine Red Crescent Society in Gaza

Date: 2024-01-11 15:41:51 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10529541

GENEVA, Jan 11 (MENA) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the killing of four dedicated ambulance team members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the ....

Blinken: More efforts required for protecting civilians in Gaza

Date: 2024-01-11 15:25:21 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:10529494

CAIRO, Jan 11 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that the war on Gaza must come to an end, adding that more efforts have to be exerted to protect civilians, deliver aid to those in need, and provide them with security and ....