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Rocket sirens sound in northern Israel

Date: 2024-03-07 11:36:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:10614759

RAMALLAH/BEIRUT, March 7 (MENA) - Rocket sirens are sounding in several communities near the Lebanon border on the eastern end of the Galilee. The rocket alarms are heard on Kibbutz Dan, Sha’ar Yeshuv, and Dafna, according to Israeli ....

Egypt takes part in int'l alliance to airdrop humanitarian aid on the Gaza Strip

Date: 2024-03-07 10:31:00 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:10614582

CAIRO, March 7 (MENA) - Egyptian Air Forces are taking part in an international alliance to airdrop tons of relief aid over the Gaza Strip. The alliance includes Jordan, US, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. The move comes in implementation ....

Israel detains 37 Palestinians om West Bank

Date: 2024-03-07 09:42:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:10614446

RAMALLAH, March 7 (MENA) – The Israeli occupation forces today detained 37 Palestinians, including four women, during large-scale campaigns across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The Palestinian Prisoner ....

Israeli soldier killed in South Gaza Strip fighting; 12 wounded

Date: 2024-03-06 21:16:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:10614046

RAMALLAH, March 6 (MENA) - The IDF announces the death of a soldier killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 247m according to The Times of Israel ....

Safadi, Blinken prioritize Gaza ceasefire and humanitarian aid

Date: 2024-03-06 17:55:21 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:10613858

AMMAN, March 6 (MENA) - Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi received a phone call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, emphasizing efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and negotiate the exchange of prisoners and detainees. ....

18 martyrs in Gaza due to dehydration, malnutrition

Date: 2024-03-06 14:07:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10613238

GAZA CITY, March 6 (MENA) – As many as 18 people in Gaza succumbed to death due to dehydration and malnutrition, health ministry in the Strip said on Wednesday. Famine in the northern Strip has reached fatal levels, especially for children, ....

US defense secretary expresses strong concerns over humanitarian situation in Gaza

Date: 2024-03-06 11:00:50 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:10612709

WASHINGTON, March 6 (MENA) - US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III had a meeting with Israeli War Cabinet Member Benny Gantz, during which he expressed strong concerns over the humanitarian situation in Gaza and requested Minister Gantz's ....

Caretaker PM Shtayyeh urges France, Netherlands to recognize Palestinian state

Date: 2024-03-05 21:20:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:10612240

RAMALLAH, March 5 (MENA) – Palestine's Prime Minister of the Caretaker Government, Mohammed Shtayyeh, on Tuesday called on France and the Netherlands to recognize the State of Palestine bilaterally and support its full membership in the United ....

UN experts condemn ‘flour massacre’, urge Israel to end campaign of starvation in Gaza

Date: 2024-03-05 20:04:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:10612177

GAZA CITY, March 5 (MENA) - UN experts Tuesday condemned the violence unleashed by Israeli forces, which killed at least 112 people gathered to collect flour in Gaza last week, as a “massacre” amid conditions of inevitable starvation and destruction ....

Italian parl’t approves Red Sea, Gaza missions

Date: 2024-03-05 18:47:28 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:10611989

ROME, March 5 (MENA) - The Italian parliament on Tuesday approved involvement in three new international missions in the Red Sea and Gaza with overwhelming support from all sides of the political spectrum, Aki news website reported. Italy's ....