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19 Aug

Family, including six children, among 25 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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A family, including six children, have been killed in the central Gaza Strip, in the latest waves of Israel’s deadly attacks across the besieged Palestinian territory. At least 25 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday. The parents and their six children were killed in Deir el-Balah in the central part of the Strip, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said. The grandfather of the children said their mother worked for the United Nations. “My daughter, together with her husband and six children, was sleeping peacefully at home in Deir al-Balah. They were taken by…
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17 Aug

UN’s Guterres: ‘The ultimate vaccine for polio in Gaza is peace’ | Israel-Palestine conflict

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NewsFeedThe UN is readying 1.6 million doses of polio vaccine for children in Gaza as the disease spreads across the devastated strip. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that if a cease fire is not enacted, then a “polio pause” would be necessary for a vaccination campaign to take place.Published On 16 Aug 202416 Aug 2024 https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/4512459_ce1456ba53a645959747bce0f44a8f0f_1080i50ESSENCE.mp4.00_00_15_04.Still001-1723832777.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80 #UNs #Guterres #ultimate #vaccine #polio #Gaza #peace #IsraelPalestine #conflict
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16 Aug

Palestinian leader Abbas tells Turkish parliament he will go to Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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The president of the Palestinian Authority tells Turkish legislators he will stand by the Palestinian people even at the cost of his life. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has promised to go to the besieged Gaza Strip, saying he will stand by the Palestinian people even if it costs him his life. Speaking to Turkey’s Grand National Assembly on Thursday as the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli war on Gaza surpassed 40,000, Abbas decried the “silence of the international community” in the face of atrocities committed by Israel. “I have decided to head to the Gaza Strip along with…
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12 Aug

The Gaza Man: A Palestinian’s quest to make it to the Paris Olympics | Paris Olympics 2024

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Before every weightlifting competition, Mohammed Hamada thinks of Gaza. He thinks of the destruction of his home and people, or of the mass grave he dug for residents of the building next to his. These circumstances have created a special kind of athlete. One who had to eat animal food to survive, losing 18kg in the process. And one who ultimately had to leave Gaza and his family, so he could try and compete in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. “We came out of Gaza not to escape death,” the 22-year-old Palestinian weightlifter said. “We left Gaza to complete our…
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11 Aug

US to provide $3.5bn more in military aid to Israel amid war on Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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Part of the military aid package will go to an Israeli army unit accused of serious rights abuses of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The United States will send an additional $3.5bn to Israel to spend on US-made weapons and military equipment, the Department of State has said, as the deadly war in Gaza continues into its 10th month and amid claims of widespread Israeli military abuses in the occupied Palestinian territory. A State Department spokesperson said on Friday that the department had notified Congress on Thursday that the Biden administration intended to release billions of dollars worth of…
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02 Aug

Global hunger monitor declares famine in camp in Sudan’s North Darfur | Hunger News

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UN’s hunger monitoring system finds ongoing famine in Zamzam camp and is likely to persist until October. The war in Sudan and restrictions on aid deliveries have caused famine in at least one camp for displaced people in Sudans’s North Darfur region, according to a report by the global authority on food security. Thursday’s United Nations-backed report, linked to an internationally recognised standard known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), found that it is plausible that parts of North Darfur – especially the Zamzam camp – are experiencing “the worst form of hunger”, known as IPC Phase 5.…
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What does it mean to recognise Palestinian statehood?
24 Jul

What does it mean to recognise Palestinian statehood?

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It is a step to “bring peace to the Middle East", according to Simon Harris, Ireland’s prime minister. On May 22nd his country, along with Norway and Spain, said that it would formally recognise Palestine as a state. Israel recalled its ambassadors from all three countries in response; its foreign minister condemned the trio’s decision as a “distorted step" and said it was evidence, in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th, that “terrorism pays". Ireland, Norway and Spain are joining the majority of countries: almost three-quarters of members of the UN recognise Palestine. What exactly does…
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