[ad_1] While the United States abstained from the vote on Monday, the remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution. The resolution, which the US said it did not agree with in its entirety, calls for an “immediate ceasefire” for the duration of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends in two weeks. It…
[ad_1] Top Palestinian officials and Hamas have criticised the decision by some Western countries to suspend funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians and called for an immediate reversal of the move that entails “great” risk. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) earlier said it…
[ad_1] Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip had risen to 23,357, with 59,410 people wounded, since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict on Oct 7, the Gaza-based Health Ministry said on Wednesday. It said about 1.9 million people of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million are displaced as entire neighborhoods have been…
[ad_1] Israel bombed southern Gaza on Saturday as the UN warned that the besieged Palestinian territory has been rendered “uninhabitable” by three months of war. Top Western diplomats were in the region as part of a fresh push to boost the flow of aid into Gaza and address mounting fears of a wider conflict. The…
[ad_1] French President Emmanuel Macron demanded a “lasting ceasefire” in Gaza during a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, his office said, as an escalating humanitarian crisis grips the Palestinian territory. “France will work in the coming days in cooperation with Jordan to carry out humanitarian operations in Gaza,” the French presidency…
[ad_1] The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says the death toll from Israel’s air and artillery strikes in the besieged territory has risen to 18,608. The ministry announced the figure on Wednesday, which is the 68th day of the regime’s war on Gaza. It said that the number of the injured people has reached 50,…
[ad_1] The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza. Thirteen Security Council members voted in favour of a brief draft resolution, put forward by the United Arab Emirates on Friday, while the United Kingdom abstained. The…
[ad_1] The World Health Organization’s executive board will hold an emergency session on December 10 to discuss the health crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, with the Palestinian envoy seeking more medical aid and access for foreign healthcare workers. The WHO confirmed on Monday it had received a request from 15 countries to hold…
[ad_1] With tears of joy rolling down her cheeks, and a look of utter disbelief, Sawsan Bakeer ran down a flight of steps to greet her 24-year-old daughter, Marah, who had just been released after eight years in an Israeli prison. Marah Bakeer is one of 39 Palestinian women and children released from Israeli prisons…
[ad_1] Israeli occupation troops carried out building-by-building searches at Gaza’s main hospital, as a new communications blackout in the territory on Friday compounded fears for Palestinian civilians trapped inside the facility. Al-Shifa hospital has become a focal point for Israeli operations in northern Gaza since Israeli occupation forces raided the complex on Wednesday, hunting for a…
