This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 19:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Iraqi Prime Minister's Advisor on Human Rights and Chairman of the Higher Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian and Lebanese People, Zaidan Al-Attawani, announced on Sunday that the suspension of aid delivery to Gaza and Lebanon is due to the lack of a land or air route. Al-Attawani told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 18:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defense agency said an air strike hit a hospital Sunday, killing at least seven people, while Israel said it had targeted militants at the no longer functioning facility. "Seven martyrs and several injured people, including critical cases, have been recovered following the Israeli strike on the upper floor of Al-Wafaa Hospital in ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 01:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel said on Saturday that it had arrested the director of a hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that had been presented as a Palestinian Hamas command centre and was now empty of patients and staff, according to the World Health Organisation, which said it was ‘appalled’. The Kamal Adwan hospital was the last major hospital ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 21:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Qatar's prime minister met a Hamas delegation in Doha on Saturday to discuss a "clear and comprehensive" ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza, a statement said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held talks with a Hamas team led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, the foreign ministry statement said. It is unusual for Sheikh ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 18:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The World Health Organization said Saturday that the Kamal Adwan hospital was "now empty" following an Israeli military raid which put north Gaza's last major health facility out of service. The WHO said it was "appalled" by Friday's raid, saying "hospitals have once again become battlegrounds", and describing the lifeline of healthcare in north ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The top diplomats of China and Iran agreed Saturday that the Middle East is "not a battleground for the big powers" and should not be an arena of geopolitical competition between countries outside the region. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi agreed that "the international community should respect the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza health officials said on Saturday that Israeli forces detained the director of a hospital in the north, which the World Health Organization said was put out of service by an Israeli raid. "The occupation forces have taken dozens of the medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital to a detention centre for interrogation, including the director, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 01:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The WHO announced on Friday that the last major hospital in northern Gaza was ‘out of service’ after an Israeli army raid on Hamas fighters near the hospital, which the Palestinian Islamist movement claims was taken by storm. ‘This morning's raid on the Kamal Adwan hospital has put the last major health centre in northern ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 02:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
From journalists working for a television channel affiliated to an Islamist group to hospital staff, at least 45 people were killed on Thursday in several Israeli raids on the war-torn Gaza Strip, according to various Palestinian sources. The director of the Kamal Adwan hospital, one of only two still operating in the north of this Palestinian ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-26 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Five members of the Palestinian TV channel "Al-Quds Today", which is affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement, were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle, the outlet said in a statement. The missile hit their broadcast truck as it was parked in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to the statement. The channel ...
Marc Saikali, 2024-12-26 08:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Erdogan seems to be indomitable and relentless in pursuing his ambitions. He just pulled off a remarkable masterstroke: toppling the Assad regime, with an American green light and a tacit Russian approval. Once shunned and labeled the gravedigger of Ataturk’s secular legacy – not to mention contested in the ballot box – he has now staged a ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the "extremely grave" humanitarian situation in Gaza. He used his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the city and the world") message to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics to call ...