Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Israel’s national security advisor announced late Wednesday that the deal for the release of hostages in Gaza in exchange for a temporary truce has been postponed until Friday at the earliest. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government voted to accept the deal early on Wednesday …
Read More »UN chief wants return of two-state solution after Gaza crisis
New York, US | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres foresees that a strengthened Palestinian Authority would assume responsibilities in Gaza after the current crisis and international players would work toward a two-state solution. Asked about his vision “for the day after” in Gaza, Guterres said it is important to …
Read More »Gazans struggle to survive with fear of famine amid lack of humanitarian aid
Gaza, Palestine | Xinhua | Abed al-Rahman Bashir, a 42-year-old Palestinian man, has been struggling every day to obtain some food for his displaced family in Khan Younis city in the south of Gaza since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted on Oct. 7. “I have to walk a long distance …
Read More »Netanyahu: No deal reached yet on hostage release
Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Currently there is no deal reached yet on the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a press conference on Saturday night. Netanyahu denied “incorrect reports” about a deal of releasing part of about 240 hostages held …
Read More »Egypt says ready to receive newborns from Gaza’s largest hospital
Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday instructed the country’s medical sector to receive Palestinian newborns from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip that suspended its operation on Nov. 11 after it ran out of fuel. To implement the directives of …
Read More »Behind Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians
They are standing in the way of the Ben Gurion Canal Project, an alternative to the Suez Canal through Gaza ANALYSIS | YVONNE RIDLEY | I hate conspiracy theories and fake news. They degrade my profession as a journalist and incite fear, hate and tribulation with the deliberate intention of causing …
Read More »WHO chief stresses ‘no one is safe’ in Gaza
New York, US | Xinhua | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that “nowhere and no one is safe” in Gaza, where the health system is “on its knees,” in an emergency meeting of UN Security Council Friday. The situation on the ground is grim, …
Read More »Turkey’s most extensive health aid for Gaza on its way
Istanbul, Turkey | Xinhua | A ship carrying the largest health aid that Turkey has ever sent to the Gaza Strip set off on Friday, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced. A dry cargo ship carrying 51 containers of medical supplies and generators and 20 fully equipped ambulances left the …
Read More »Half million more Palestinians to fall in poverty if Gaza war continues for another month: UN report
Gaza, Palestine | Xinhua | The poverty rate in Palestine will soar by 34 percent, thrusting nearly half a million additional people into poverty, if the war in Gaza continues for a second month, warns a UN report. In such a scenario, Palestine’s gross domestic product (GDP) will plummet by …
Read More »Egypt’s Red Crescent records entry of 9,000 tons of aid to Gaza
Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | So far some 600 truckloads carrying 9,000 tons of aid have been sent to the Gaza Strip through a key land crossing with Egypt, an Egyptian Red Crescent official revealed Wednesday. Khaled Zayed, the relief agency’s regional head in Egypt’s North Sinai, told Xinhua that …
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