GAZA: Mediator Qatar acknowledged on Saturday (17th Feb, 2024) that prospects for a new pause in Israel’s war with Hamas were “not really promising” as Israel rejected appeals to hold off on a threatened assault on the Gaza city of Rafah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that foreign countries calling on Israel to spare the […]
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WASHINGTON: After meeting with US President Joe Biden, Jordan’s King Abdullah has called for a full and “lasting ceasefire” to end the current war in the besieged Gaza Strip, as Israel prepares to launch a ground offensive into the crowded southern city of Rafah. King Abdullah’s call followed a meeting with Biden at the White […]
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UNITED NATIONS: Amid reports of deadly Israeli airstrikes in Gaza’s Rafah governorate, the UN’s top aid official, Martin Griffiths, echoed widespread international fears about a further escalation of the conflict, now into its fifth month. “As the war in Gaza encroaches further into Rafah, I am extremely concerned about the safety and wellbeing of families […]
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KARACHI (IFJ/AFP): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned ‘Israel’s seemingly deliberate targeting and killing of Media persons’ in Gaza following a drone strike that killed two and injured one on 7 January. Al Jazeera journalist and cameraman Hamza Al-Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Al-Dahdouh, and freelance videographer Mustafa Thuraya, […]
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