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Int’l Red Crescent stresses need for int’l community to assume its responsibilities, help Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 19:08:42 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:10414455

BEIRUT, Oct 28 (MENA) - International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement communications officer Mai Al Sayegh has stressed the need for the international community to assume its responsibilities to help the Gaza Strip, praising the Egyptian Red ....

UN chief decries unprecedented escalation of Israeli bombardments in Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 19:04:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:10414541

RAMALLAH/DOHA, Oct 28 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres denounced an unprecedented escalation of Israeli bombardments in Gaza and their devastating impacts, undermining the referred humanitarian objectives. "Given the breakdown in ....

OIC welcomes UNGA's Gaza resolution

Date: 2023-10-28 18:39:20 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:10414385

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct 28 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has welcomed a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to bring an end to the ....

EU calls for truce in Gaza to allow humanitarian aid

Date: 2023-10-28 17:24:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:10414387

BRUSSELS/RAMALLAH, Oct 28 (MENA) – European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for a truce in the Gaza Strip to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, after a night of heavy Israeli bombing. Borrell said - in a post on the X ....

Russia’s FM warns of consequences of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 16:53:36 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:10414313

MOSCOW, Oct 28 (MENA) - Destroying the Gaza Strip or expelling two million residents from the Palestinian enclave risks causing a crisis that may last decades, if not ages, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told BelTA in an interview. "If ....

UN agencies concerned over losing contact with their teams in Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 16:50:14 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10414386

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (MENA) - Several international aid organizations and United Nations agencies have expressed their concern for colleagues in Gaza, after losing contact as a result of the communications blackout, according to the Washington Post. ....

Israel committed 53 massacres in Gaza since last night : sources

Date: 2023-10-28 16:41:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10414222

GAZA CITY, Oct 28 (MENA) – As many as 53 massacres were committed over the last night and this morning by Israeli occupation forces fiercely attacking the Gaza Strip, said Palestinian sources, noting that the enclave has been exposed in the past 24 ....

UN warns of ‘potential for thousands more civilians to die’ in Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 16:12:19 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10414179

GENEVA, Oct 28 (MENA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned on Saturday there was a potential for thousands more civilians to die as Israel presses a ground operation in Gaza. Israel’s army relentlessly hammered the territory ....

Scotland's first minister blasts UK for abstaining from UN resolution calling for truce in Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 16:00:56 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:10414220

EDINBURGH, Oct 28 (MENA) - Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf criticized on Saturday the UK for abstaining from voting on a resolution drafted by Arab states calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. “If you did not vote for peace, while children are ....

Civilians, patients, health workers in Gaza spend night in darkness and fear: WHO

Date: 2023-10-28 15:12:18 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:10414091

GENEVA, Oct 28 (MENA) - During a night of intense bombardment and ground incursions in Gaza, with reports of hostilities still continuing, health workers, patients and civilians have been subject to a total communication and electrical blackout, the ....