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Paris to host humanitarian conference on Gaza, Macron says

Date: 2023-11-03 20:28:13 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10424830

PARIS, Nov 3 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday announced a “humanitarian conference” on Gaza would be held in Paris on November 9. The French president said the conference would be held “on the margins” of the Paris Peace Forum, ....

Pope Francis: War in Middle East must stop

Date: 2023-11-03 19:50:11 GMT - Vatican - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10424788

VATICAN CITY, Feb 3 (MENA) - The war in the Middle East must be stopped, Pope Francis has said. "War is always a defeat, always," he added. "Wars solve nothing, but everything can be gained through peace and dialogue." In war, as is happening ....

Egypt's Mufti condemns Israeli bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

Date: 2023-11-03 19:41:17 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10424776

CAIRO, Nov 3 (MENA) - Egypt's Mufti Shawqi Allam has strongly condemned the Israeli brutal bombing of the main entrance of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, in addition to its targeting of an ambulance convoy that was at the scene, which resulted in ....

Dozens killed, injured as Israel strikes main entrance of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza

Date: 2023-11-03 19:32:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10424636

RAMALLAH, Nov 3 (MENA) - Israeli airstrikes on Friday bombarded the main entrance of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing and injuring dozens of civilians, WAFA news agency reported. Israeli warplanes shelled the main entrance of the Shifa ....

Palestinian child killed, 2 young men injured in WB clashes

Date: 2023-11-03 17:13:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:10424665

RAMALLAH, Nov 3 (MENA) - A Palestinian child was killed and two young men injured during clashes with Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank city of Hebron. Sources said the child died of wounds sustained in confrontations that broke out with ....

Blinken says US 'tackling humanitarian pauses' in Gaza war

Date: 2023-11-03 16:56:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:10424643

RAMALLAH, Nov 3 (MENA) - The United States is working with Israel to create a mechanism for a series of humanitarian pauses to the Gaza War to allow vital humanitarian assistance to enter the enclave, the Jerusalem Post quoted US Secretary of State ....

France voices deep concern over increasing civilian casualties in Gaza

Date: 2023-11-03 16:47:20 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:10424500

PARIS, Nov 3 (MENA) - France has expressed its deep concern over the number of civilian casualties in Gaza, which has now risen to several thousands, and over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. In a statement released by the French Foreign ....

US warns Israel amid Gaza carnage it doesn’t have long before support erodes

Date: 2023-11-03 15:31:31 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:10424449

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden and his top advisers are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of ....

Russia, Kuwait call for immediate measures to reach ceasefire in Middle East

Date: 2023-11-03 14:58:22 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:10424379

MOSCOW, Nov 3 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah called for adopting immediate measures to reach a prompt ceasefire in the Middle East. In a press conference here ....

Israeli army strikes Hezbollah cell in Lebanon

Date: 2023-11-03 14:57:58 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:10424069

GAZA, Nov 3 (MENA) - The Israeli army said it has struck a cell inside a Hezbollah compound and Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon in response to fire from Lebanon toward Israel on Thursday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Overnight, a cell that ....