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US Starts Airdropping Aid To War-Hit Gaza As Israeli Strikes Continue

March 2, 2024 admin

US President Joe Biden had announced the imminent air drops on Friday. Washington: American cargo planes air-dropped 38,000 meals into the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, part of a series of drops planned by Washington to help curb a growing humanitarian crisis in the war-racked territory. The United Nations has warned of famine in Gaza,…

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Risks, Past Examples, Other Options

March 2, 2024 admin

The United States will use military aircraft to drop supplies over Gaza Washington: The US military will start carrying out airdrops of food and supplies into Gaza in the coming days, joining other countries like France, Jordan and Egypt that have done the same. HOW WOULD AN AIRDROP OF AID WORK? The United States will…

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Deadly Scenes As Desperate Gazans Rush Aid Trucks: Pity Us

March 1, 2024 admin

According to the UNRWA, just over 2,300 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip in February Palestinian Territories: Thousands of Palestinians flocked to an aid distribution point early Thursday, desperate for food amid Gaza’s looming famine, only to be met with lethal chaos including live fire by Israeli troops. By mid-afternoon the Hamas-run health ministry said…

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‘Massacre’ by Israeli troops at aid delivery site in Gaza draws condemnation

March 1, 2024 admin

TOPSHOT – This image grab from a handout video released by the Israeli army on February 29, 2024, shows what the army says are Gazans around aid trucks in Gaza City. Israeli forces shot dead 104 people when a crowd rushed towards aid trucks on February 29, the Health Ministry in Gaza said. | Photo…

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Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital Goes Out Of Service

November 1, 2023 admin

The deaths in Gaza reached 8,796 Palestinians: Health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave (File) Dubai: The only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said today. The director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital told a press conference aired by Al-Jazeera TV that…

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Internet, Phones Completely Shut Off In Gaza

November 1, 2023 admin

Internet and phone networks were completely cut last week but were restored at the weekend. Jerusalem, Undefined: Internet and phone networks were down across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian telecommunications agency said, in the second such blackout in the besieged territory in less than a week. “To our good people in the beloved…

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US, Others Looking At “Variety Of” Options For Future Of Gaza After Hamas

November 1, 2023 admin

Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught in the Gaza Strip. Washington: The United States and other countries are looking at “a variety of possible permutations” for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas militants are removed from control, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. Blinken told…

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Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Claim Attacks On Israel, Vow More To Come

October 31, 2023 admin

It said Huthi rebels “launched a large batch of ballistic missiles” towards Israel on Tuesday. Sanaa: Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Tuesday pledged more attacks against Israel if its war on Hamas in Gaza continues, saying it had already fired drones and ballistic missiles in three separate operations. “The Yemeni Armed Forces… confirm they will…

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Israel Hamas War: “Only Way To End Violence In Gaza Is…”: Lebanon Envoy To NDTV

October 30, 2023 admin

New Delhi: Calling the ongoing Israel-Hamas war worrisome, Lebanese Ambassador to India Rabie Narsh said that the two-state solution is the only way to end the conflict. Speaking to NDTV, Dr Narsh said, “The situation didn’t start on October 7, the crisis has been there since 1967. Since then, Israel has been refusing all peace…

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UN After Thousands Break Into Aid Centres In Gaza

October 29, 2023 admin

UN warned that “civil order” was starting to collapse in Gaza Palestinian Territories: The United Nations warned Sunday that “civil order” was starting to collapse in Gaza after thousands of people ransacked its food warehouses. The UN relief agency for the Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said wheat, flour and other basic supplies had been pillaged at…

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