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The Palestinians are a non-member observer state at the United Nations. United Nations: The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday formally asked for renewed consideration by the United Nations Security Council of its 2011 application to become a full member of the world body. Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour told Reuters on Monday that the aim was…
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Anti-government protesters gathered as they stage a four-day sit-in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Jerusalem: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Houdini of Israeli politics and its longest serving prime minister, has been written off many times before. But with thousands of protesters on the streets every night this week demanding his resignation, and growing anger at his handling of…
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“There’s accountability to be held here,” the White House official said after Israel killed aid workers. Washington: The White House said on Tuesday it was “outraged” by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed seven people working for World Central Kitchen (WCK), and that President Joe Biden called the charity aid group’s founder to share…
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A woman carrying a baby walks at the site of an Israeli airstrike on a building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 02, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Newborn mortality is rising sharply in the Gaza Strip, with babies being…
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A cargo ship, right, and a ship belonging to the Open Arms aid group, are loaded with 240 tonnes of canned food destined for Gaza prepare to set sail outside the Cypriot port of Larnaca, Cyprus, on March 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP An official in Cyprus says aid ships that arrived in Gaza…
Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed more than 32,800 Gazans Israeli businessman Maoz Inon lost both his parents to the October 7 attacks by Hamas but while some bereaved have been baying for vengeance, the 49-year-old has been preaching peace. “We didn’t want to take revenge,” Inon told AFP at a small peace rally in Shefa…
Washington: Reported discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians reached a record high in the U.S. in 2023, driven by rising Islamophobia and bias as the Israel-Gaza war raged late in the year, data from an advocacy group showed on Tuesday. Complaints totaled 8,061 in 2023, a 56% rise from the year before and the…
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A man displays blood-stained British, Polish, and Australian passports after an Israeli airstrike, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on April 1, 2024. Gaza medical officials say an apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver after they helped deliver food and other supplies to northern…
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called Monday on the international community to act after the Israeli attack on an Iranian consulate in Damascus killed a senior Guards commander and others. Amir-Abdollahian, in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad, “blamed the consequences of this action on the Zionist regime and stressed the…
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More than 32,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October in Israeli retaliation against Hamas. Washington: Several people working for US-based charity World Central Kitchen were killed Monday in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, according to the organisation’s founder. World Central Kitchen “lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF…
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