JERUSALEM (AP) — With virtually no food allowed into the northernmost part of Gaza for the past month, tens of thousands of Palestinians under Israeli siege are rationing their last lentils and flour to survive. As bombardment pounds around them, some say they risk their lives by venturing out in …
Read More »Muhamad Yehia CAIRO (AP) — The number of Palestinians killed in the yearlong war in Gaza has passed 43,000, more than half of them women and children, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday. The tally includes 96 dead who arrived at hospitals in Gaza over the past two days, the …
Read More »It could take 350 years for Gaza to rebuild if it remains under a blockade, UN report says
Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab United Nations agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas, one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns since World War II. Now, more than a year into the war, a new report speaks in terms …
Read More »More than 100 people killed in latest Israeli bombings in Gaza, say medics
More than 100 people killed in latest Israeli bombings in Gaza, say medics Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo UN special coordinator says ‘nightmare in Gaza is intensifying’ and calls for immediate end to violence At least 87 people have been killed or are missing and 40 injured after intense Israeli airstrikes overnight …
Read More »Middle East crisis live: Iran warns UN about Israel’s threats against its nuclear sites; Israel launch strikes across Lebanon
Muhamad Yehia WHO to evacuate 1,000 Palestinian women and children for urgent medical care Up to 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization’s Europe branch said in comments published on Monday. Israel, which is besieging the war-devastated …
Read More »Israeli protesters demand Netanyahu reach hostage deal with Hamas
Cairo.. Muhamad Yehia Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign a deal to release the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza During the weekly protest against the government of Netanyahu, relatives of hostages and their supporters said the moment …
Read More »UN urges ceasefire in the wake of killing of Hamas leader
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Will the warring parties in the Middle East agree to a ceasefire in the wake of the killing of Hamas’ chief That is the call of UN Secretary General and the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process. “The Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) is interested that …
Read More »Who was Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader ? Israel says it killed
Muhamad Yehia BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen …
Read More »Biden sends antimissile system and troops to Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send a T erminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with the troops needed to operate it, the Pentagon said Sunday, even as Iran warned Washington to keep American military forces out of Israel. Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon spokesman, said in a …
Read More »Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution in Gaza
The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The U.S.-sponsored resolution welcomes a cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden that the United States says Israel has accepted. It calls on the …
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