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At least 34,568 people in Gaza, says Hamas Health Ministry. (File) Geneva: The Gaza Strip is filled with more war debris and rubble than Ukraine, the head of UN demining operations for the narrow Palestinian territory said Wednesday. And the danger for clearance work is restricted not just to unexploded ordnance but includes possible exposure…
A house lies in ruins in the border area of Shebaa in southern Lebanon, following an Israeli strike on April 27, 2024 , amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza. | Photo Credit: AFP UNICEF, the children’s agency of the UN, said on April 30 that conflict…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP Yemen’s Houthis said on April 27 their missiles hit the Andromeda Star oil tanker in the Red Sea, as they continue attacking commercial ships in the area in a show of support for Palestinians fighting Israel in the Gaza war. The ship’s master reported damage…
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French police broke up a pro-Palestinian protest by dozens of university students in Paris, officials said on Thursday, as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza sparks a wave of anger across college campuses in the United States. The police intervened as dozens of students gathered on a central Paris campus of the prestigious Sciences Po university on…
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A protester is arrested by University of Texas police at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas on April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. | Photo Credit: AP More than 100 people were arrested on Wednesday at two universities in California and Texas, officials said, after pro-Palestinian protests erupted across U.S. campuses this week….
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Jewish people marked April 22 the start of Passover, a celebration of freedom, and around many holiday tables in Israel chairs stood empty for hostages still held captive in Gaza. The week-long Jewish festival, also known in Hebrew as the “holiday of freedom”, celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, as told in the Bible….
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met CEOs in Malaysia on March 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on March 27 said India’s position in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been that a solution cannot be found on the battlefield and New Delhi wants to find a way of bringing this conflict…
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U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres stood near a long line of waiting trucks Saturday and declared it was time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid,” calling the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.” He urged an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Mr. Guterres spoke on the Egyptian side of the border not far…
Humanitarian aid parcels attached to parachutes are airdropped from a military aircraft over the Gaza Strip on March 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: As Israel’s war on Gaza is reaching its sixth month, the Palestinian enclave has become the world’s “largest open-air graveyard”, as the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep…
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Jacob Lew, former treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine his nomination as Ambassador to the State of Israel on October 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP The Senate has confirmed Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, filling the key diplomatic post as the country is…
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