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DUBA | TASS | At least 151 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on May 18, including 70 in the shelling of Gaza City and in the north of the enclave, Qatar’s Al Jazeera reported. According to Dmitry Gendelman, an adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office, …

CAIRO | Xinhua |  Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday called for reaching an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid into the war-torn enclave during a meeting with a visiting U.S. official. Sisi made the appeal in Cairo when meeting with Massad Boulos, …

GAZA | Xinhua |  A joint U.S.-Israeli initiative to distribute humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip has triggered strong backlash from Gazans, who say the plan undermines their dignity and sidelines established international relief channels. Palestinians displaced by months of conflict voiced deep mistrust of the effort, accusing Washington and …

The execution of 15 Gaza medics and rescuers demonstrates just how normalised the dehumanisation of Palestinians is COMMENT | AHMED NAJAR | Fifteen members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and Civil Defence were killed. Not fighters. Not militants. Not people hiding rockets or weapons. They were aid workers. Humanitarians. Medics …

Why the US president’s seemingly crazy suggestion is the only viable solution to the Palestinian problem THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | For one and a half years, the world has watched in utter helplessness the merciless genocidal campaign Israel is conducting in Gaza to cleanse it of Palestinians. South Africa’s …

  CAIRO | Xinhua |  Egypt rejects Israeli attempts to undermine the unity of Palestinian territories by separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday. Abdelatty made the remarks during a meeting in Cairo with a visiting delegation from the Palestinian Fatah movement, …

GAZA | Xinhua | At least 130 Palestinians were killed, and 263 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, the Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday. This brought the death toll to 49,747 and injuries to 113,213 since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out …

GENEVA | Xinhua | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said Tuesday that he was “horrified” by the Israeli airstrikes and shelling in Gaza, which have reportedly killed hundreds. “This will add tragedy onto tragedy,” Turk said in a statement. Turk emphasized that the past 18 months of …

TEL AVIV | TASS |  The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported of extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas Palestinian movement in the Gaza Strip in a statement on its Telegram channel. No details of the operation were provided. Earlier, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said on X, citing …

TEL AVIV | TASS | Israel’s new Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has said that 2025 will a year of war focused on the Gaza Strip and Iran, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the newspaper, Zamir told the high command that other fronts will be in focus of attention as well. …