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Jordan's foreign ministry: 49 citizens evacuated from Gaza via Rafah crossing

Date: 2023-12-15 12:56:48 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:10492088

AMMAN, Dec 15 (MENA) - The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates' Directorate of Operations and Consular Affairs announced that 49 Jordanian citizens were evacuated from the Gaza Strip yesterday. The citizens were granted ....

OIC decries Israeli crimes in Palestinian lands

Date: 2023-12-15 11:43:35 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:10491965

RIYADH, Dec 15 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned on Friday the non-stop Israeli crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, the latest of which was the appalling massacre committed in Jenin that left 12 ....

Fatah Spox calls on US Administration to support justice in Gaza

Date: 2023-12-15 11:37:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10491969

RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) - Palestinian Fatah Movement Spokesman Hussein Hamayel called on the US Administration to stand by the humanitarian justice and not be biased towards the Israeli side in its continued aggression on Gaza Strip. Interviewed ....

Nonstop Israeli airstrikes on Gaza claim dozens of innocent lives, as Israel's aggression completes 70 days

Date: 2023-12-15 10:36:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:10491963

GAZA, Dec 15 (MENA) - As the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters its 70th day in a row, dozens of innocent civilians were brutally murdered since last night in a nonstop Israeli bombardment campaign targeted various areas in the Gaza Strip, ....

Israeli occupation forces destroy two family houses south of Nablus

Date: 2023-12-15 10:29:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10491957

RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Thursday punitively destroyed two family homes in the village of Urif, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, WAFA quoted local sources as saying. The forces blew up the house of ....

UNRWA spokesperson: Gaza not fit for human life

Date: 2023-12-15 07:46:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10491750

GAZA CITY, Dec 15 (MENA) - UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma said the Gaza Strip becomes unfit for human life. "Many shelters are overwhelmed with people seeking safety, 4 or 5 times their capacity," she told the BBC. "Most of ....

Arab Parliament hails UNGA resolution on Gaza ceasefire

Date: 2023-12-14 17:32:47 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:10491136

CAIRO, Dec 14 (MENA) - The Arab Parliament hailed a UN General Assembly resolution demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” and a stop to the genocide carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip. The resolution was passed with a large majority ....

UNRWA spokesman warns about spread of epidemics in Gaza

Date: 2023-12-14 17:00:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:10491075

GAZA/RAMALLAH , Dec 14 (MENA) - UNRWA cannot provide its services normally in the Gaza Strip amid the lack of a real humanitarian response as well as the running out of water, medical supplies, medicines and food, said spokesman for the United ....

Health ministry in Gaza says Israel committed 18 massacres in GS in past 24 hours

Date: 2023-12-14 16:35:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10491132

GAZA, Dec 14 (MENA) - The Ministry of Health in Gaza updated the death toll from the ruthless Israeli war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 7, saying the number of the dead has reached 18,787 and the wounded hit 50,897. The ....

People in Gaza are so hungry they are stopping aid trucks and eating food immediately: UNRWA chief

Date: 2023-12-14 16:16:25 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10491222

LONDON, Dec 14 (MENA) - The UN’s Palestinian refugee chief, Philippe Lazzarini, says people in Gaza are so hungry they are stopping aid trucks, taking the food and eating it right away, The Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday. “This is how ....