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Russia and China veto U.S. resolution in UNSC calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

March 22, 2024 admin

Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Amar Bendjama (L) and China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, vote against a U.S. ceasefire resolution for the Gaza war during a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on March 22, 2024 in New York City. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via…

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Chief Of UN Agency For Palestinians Refugees Stopped From Entering Gaza

March 18, 2024 admin

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini Cairo: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Monday Israel had blocked him from entering the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip where the UN has warned of impending famine. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said he had “intended to go into Rafah today, but was informed my entry had…

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UN agency laments plight of children in northern Gaza

March 16, 2024 admin

Palestinian children wait to receive food during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem | Photo Credit: MOHAMMED SALEM One in three children under the age of two in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished…

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The first ship to use a new sea route approaches Gaza with 200 tons of aid

March 15, 2024 admin

The Open Arms vessel carrying aid sails off the shore of Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from central Gaza Strip, March 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS A ship carrying 200 tons of aid approached the coast of Gaza on March 15 in a mission…

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Israeli Fire Kills 6 Palestinians Awaiting Aid Trucks: Gaza Health Ministry

March 14, 2024 admin

The conflict in Gaza has displaced most of the enclave’s 2.3 million population. Cairo: Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as crowds of residents awaited aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza health ministry officials said on Thursday. Palestinians were rushing to get aid supplies at the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza…

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Race to rush aid to Gaza as EU warns hunger ‘a weapon of war’

March 13, 2024 admin

Donor nations, aid agencies and charities pushed on with efforts on Wednesday to rush food to war-torn Gaza by land, air and sea after the EU top diplomat said starvation had become “a weapon of war”. The Israel-Hamas conflict raging since October 7 has caused mass civilian deaths, reduced vast areas to a rubble-strewn wasteland…

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Tension Between Israel And US Is Rising With Gaza Death Count

March 12, 2024 admin

US-Israel tensions extend beyond the current fighting. (File) The almost-daily phone calls stopped months ago. Now the tensions between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s war on Hamas have burst into the open as the two leaders bicker publicly. Late last week, the US announced its army would build a pier to bring aid…

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5 Killed, 10 Injured After Gaza Aid Airdrop Parachute Fails To Open

March 9, 2024 admin

The deadly airdrop occurred north of the coastal Al-Shati refugee camp. A medic at Gaza’s largest hospital said Friday a humanitarian airdrop in the north of the Palestinian territory killed five people and wounded 10. The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, told AFP. Sheikh said…

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China calls war in Gaza ‘a disgrace to civilisation’

March 7, 2024 admin

March 07, 2024 10:07 pm | Updated 10:07 pm IST – Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories China described the war in Gaza as a “disgrace to civilisation” and called on Thursday for an immediate ceasefire as the conflict stretched into its sixth month despite efforts by mediators to reach a truce. U.S. President Joe Biden has…

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India On Gaza Conflict Says Committed To Support A Two-State Solution

March 5, 2024 admin

The conflict in Gaza escalated after the October 7 attack by Hamas. New York: India is committed to support a two-state solution where the Palestinian people are able to live freely in an independent country, with due regard to the security needs of Israel, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj has said….

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