Tag: Israel vs Palestine

U.N. chief calls for ‘immediate’ Gaza ceasefire, hostage release

May 12, 2024 admin

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at Kuwait international airport in Kuwait City. | Photo Credit: AFP U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on My 12 appealed for an immediate halt to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the return of hostages and a “surge” in humanitarian aid to the besieged…

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Israel orders new evacuations in Rafah as it prepares to expand operations

May 11, 2024 admin

Palestinians prepare to evacuate, after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel ordered new evacuations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on May 11 as…

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah ‘with or without a deal’ as ceasefire talks with Hamas continue

April 30, 2024 admin

File photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on April 30 to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war. Mr. Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas’ battalions…

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Israel controls movement of men and material in and out of Gaza | Data

November 2, 2023 admin

A Palestinian man walks past shuttered shops during a general strike in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on October 18, 2023, a day after a rocket hit a Gaza hospital killing hundreds. | Photo Credit: ZAIN JAAFAR Two Data Points published last week explored the impoverished nature of the Palestinian territories, especially Gaza, and…

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Israel-Hamas war, Day 27 LIVE updates | At least 195 killed in refugee camp strike, says Hamas

November 2, 2023 admin

Some of Latin America’s largest countries came out on Wednesday to condemn Israel’s attacks on a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, widening the diplomatic rift between the region and the Middle Eastern country. Argentina, home to Latin America’s largest Jewish community, Peru and Mexico lambasted the Israeli attacks, which the Gaza government…

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Israel-Hamas war, Day 25 LIVE updates | War spilling into Syria: U.N. envoy

October 31, 2023 admin

Northern Ireland may be thousands of miles from the Middle East but signs of the current heightened conflict can be seen on the streets of the British province. Palestinian and Israeli flags flutter in pro-Irish and pro-U.K. neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, tapping into its own history of conflict and division that still affects everyday life…

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Israel has an iron grip over Gaza and West Bank’s economy | Data

October 30, 2023 admin

Depleted resources: A Palestinian man gestures at a closed petrol station in the aftermath of Israeli strikes on the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on October 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: SAID KHATIB The Data point published on October 23, 2023, titled ‘Five wars in 15 years stifled Gaza’s growth’ described how…

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Israel-Hamas war, Day 23 LIVE updates | PM Netanyahu says the Gaza war has entered a new stage and will be ‘long and difficult’

October 29, 2023 admin

The Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli strikes had killed 7,703 people, mainly civilians, including more than 3,500 children October 29, 2023 07:46 am | Updated 08:09 am IST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military…

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Israel-Hamas war, Day 23 LIVE updates | Gaza civilians should move south where humanitarian efforts ‘will be expanding’: Israeli military

October 29, 2023 admin

The Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli strikes had killed 7,703 people, mainly civilians, including more than 3,500 children October 29, 2023 07:46 am | Updated 10:37 am IST The Israeli military fires shells toward the Gaza Strip on October 28, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel’s army relentlessly hammered the territory on…

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Five wars in 15 years have stifled Gaza’s growth | Data

October 28, 2023 admin

Palestinians inspect the damage after overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Since the beginning of Israeli strikes following Hamas’ surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7, over 4,700 people have died in the Gaza Strip, according to reports from the territory’s leaders….

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