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China, Iran FMs Agree Mideast ‘Not a Battleground for Big Powers'

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 ...

Health Officials Say Israeli Forces Detain Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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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, ...

Last Major Hospital in Northern Gaza ‘Out Of Action’ After Israeli Raid, Says WHO

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 ...

Gaza: Rescue Workers And Doctors Announce High Death Toll

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 02:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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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 ...

5 Killed in an Israeli Strike on Media Broadcast Truck

This is Beirut, 2024-12-26 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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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 ...

Turkey: The Arabs... Pawns Caught in Power Play

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 ...

Pope Calls for ‘Arms to Be Silenced’ Across World

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 ...

The Houthis Claim Responsibility for a Ballistic Missile Strike on Israel

This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Houthis claimed responsibility on Tuesday for launching a "ballistic missile" targeting central Israel, while the Israeli military earlier stated that it had intercepted a "projectile." The operation, carried out with a "hypersonic ballistic missile Palestine 2," targeted a "military enemy position in the ...

Bethlehem’s Christmas Spirit Dampened by Gaza War for the Second Year

This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A few hundred worshippers gathered in and around the Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christianity, where Christmas celebrations are overshadowed for the second consecutive year by the war in the Gaza Strip. At the Vatican, Pope Francis is inaugurating the Catholic Church's "Holy Year" ...

Israel Mentions ‘Progress’ Towards An Agreement On Hostages In Gaza

This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 03:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ‘cautiously’ referred to ‘progress’ towards an agreement on the hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian Hamas attack in October 2023, one of the conditions for a ceasefire. Indirect negotiations last week in Qatar between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Doha and Egypt, ...

Despite Hopes Of a Ceasefire, Violence Continues In Gaza

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 03:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Despite growing hopes of a ceasefire, the violence continues in the Gaza Strip, where 35 people have been killed in the last 24 hours according to the Civil Defence of the Palestinian territory, ravaged by more than a year of war between Hamas and Israel. The Islamist movement Hamas and two other Palestinian groups had suggested on Saturday that ...

Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Strikes Kill 28

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the Israeli military said was used by Hamas. On the ground in Gaza, civil agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that at least 13 people were killed in an air strike on a house in ...