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May 04, 2024 10:59 pm | Updated 10:59 pm IST – Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories People walk in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. | Photo Credit: AFP…
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The World Food Program is one of the many humanitarian groups trying to get aid into Gaza. (File) Washington: The chief of the United Nations’ food program has warned of a “full-blown famine” in northern Gaza and reiterated calls for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas. “There is famine, full-blown famine in the north…
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Geneva: An Israeli military incursion into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah could lead to a “bloodbath”, the World Health Organization warned Friday, announcing contingency plans. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to crush Hamas’s remaining fighters in Rafah, where much of Gaza’s population has sought refuge from nearly seven months of war. WHO director-general…
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ashdod, Israel, on May 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Accepting a ceasefire deal with Israel should be a “no-brainer” for Hamas, but the motivations of the militants’ elusive Gaza-based leadership remain unclear, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has announced…
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First let’s tell you where the US election campaign is- We are about 2 months from the Republican National Convention- despite cases against him, Mr. Trump seems set to be the candidate About 3 months from the Democratic Convention- where despite concerns about his age and health, Mr. Biden is the confirmed candidate And about…
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Ankara: Turkey halted all trade activities with Israel due to the latter’s “non-stop violence” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Turkish Trade Ministry said. The move follows Turkey’s imposition of restrictions on an array of exports to Israel since last month, which Ankara said on Thursday would remain in effect until a ceasefire in…
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File photo Jerusalem: The amount of humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip will be ramped up in the coming days, Israel’s military said on Sunday, citing new corridors that use an Israeli seaport and border crossings into the Palestinian enclave. After closing off access to Gaza following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that…
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Police officers watch students outside the Sciences-Po university on April 26, 2024 in Paris. | Photo Credit: AP Students at a prestigious university in Paris resumed pro-Palestinian protests on Friday, inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses around the United States, two days after French police broke up another demonstration. Dozens of students at the…
Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb shortly…
Israeli and Lebanese flags are seen in this illustration | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces are carrying out “offensive action” across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. “Many forces are deployed on the border and IDF (army) forces are carrying out offensive action currently…
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