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Martyrs, injuries reported from violent Israeli raids on Gaza Strip

Date: 2023-10-29 06:55:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:10414797

GAZA CITY, Oct 29 (MENA) - Israeli warjets, artillery and gunboats launched Saturday night violent raids on various parts of the Gaza Strip, leaving behind more martyrs and injured people. This brings the total number of Palestinian martyrs to ....

UN appeals for humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

Date: 2023-10-28 21:45:56 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:10414590

NEW YORK, Oct 28 (MENA) - The United Nations on Saturday ramped up appeals for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza after another night of ground incursions and intense bombing left healthcare facilities without electricity and civilians across the ....

Israeli airstrikes continue to devastate Gaza amid complete outage of telecommunications, internet

Date: 2023-10-28 21:43:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:10414649

GAZA CITY, Oct 28 (MENA) – Israeli warplanes and artillery continued on Saturday their bombardment of Gaza, especially the northern regions of the enclave, targeting several areas that have already been severely devastated by weeks of relentless ....

Hospitals are flooded with patients, surgeries carried out without proper anesthesia - MSF

Date: 2023-10-28 20:03:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:72 - ID:10414593

GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH, Oct 28 (MENA) – Médecins Sans Frontières said hospitals are flooded with patients, amputations and surgeries are being carried out without proper anesthesia, and morgues are packed with dead bodies In a statement, it called ....

Palestinians not to leave Gaza for Egypt – Palestinian amb. to Russia

Date: 2023-10-28 19:34:27 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:10414592

MOSCOW, Oct 28 (MENA) – The Palestinians will not leave the Gaza Strip for the so-called camps in Egypt, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal told TASS. "Palestinians are not going to leave Gaza. They will not go to the border. They ....

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 ....