Geneva, December 17 (RHC)-- The biggest concern of the World Health Organization in Gaza is the "major degradation" of the local health system "at a time when the health needs are soaring," regional emergency director Richard Brennan told reporters. People in Gaza face a "toxic mix" of trauma, lack of access to healthcare and increasingly infectious diseases and potentially hunger, he said.... More
Gaza City, December 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas' military wing has announced killing at least 36 Israeli forces in the course of the past 72 hours. Al-Qassam Brigades made the announcement through a statement released by its spokesman Abu Ubaida on the Telegram messaging app.... More
Khan Younis, December 17 (RHC)-- Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa has been laid to rest in southern Gaza, with dozens of mourners, including journalists, paying their respects to the cameraman killed in an Israeli drone attack.... More
Baghdad, December 17 (RHC)-- A satellite photo of the U.S.-run al-Harir airbase in Iraq’s Kurdistan region shows extensive damage caused by repeated aerial attacks by anti-U.S. forces in the Arab country. The photo, released by the online news magazine The Cradle on Wednesday, shows the destruction of two structures in the base totaling 13,700 square feet, or nearly 1,300 square meters, among other damages. ... More
Washington, December 17 (RHC)-- A former analyst with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, says the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip will end immediately if Washington stops the flow of weapons to the occupying regime.... More
Washington, December 17 (RHC)-- With Tel Aviv's admission that occupation forces had killed several hostages during a raid in Gaza, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby called the deaths of the three Israelis “heartbreaking” after the Israel Defense Forces said it accidentally shot and killed them.... More
Doha, December 16 (RHC)-- Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli drone attack on a Gaza school that resulted in the killing of cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa. The Network holds Israel accountable for systematically targeting and killing Al Jazeera journalists and their families.... More
Cairo, December 16 (RHC)-- Two major international shipping lines have suspended the transit of goods through the Red Sea as Saudis voice concern over the escalation of conflict in the Middle East.... More
Beirut, December 16 (RHC)-- Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has staged seven more anti-Israel operations in retaliation for the Israeli genocide of Gaza. The positions targeted on Friday included the Ramim barracks near the occupied Lebanese town of Hunin and also the Al-Rahab site. It also attacked Israeli forces entering their bunker in the Mitat barracks, as well as another group of Israeli soldiers, gathered in the Harj Al-Shatula site near the occupied Lebanese village of Tarbikha.... More
Sanaa, December 16 (RHC)-- Yemen's Armed Forces have said they have conducted a successful operation against a container ship headed for the occupied territories, calling the attack a move taken in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are subject to a genocidal Israeli war. ... More
Washington, December 16 (RHC)-- Jewish-led protests on Thursday shut down bridges and highways across eight U.S. cities demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The peaceful actions in Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta came on the eighth and final day of Hanukkah. ... More
Brasilia, December 15 (RHC)-- Brazilian lawmakers have approved a law making it harder for Indigenous communities to make claims over ancestral territory. The law, which overrides a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says such claims are not valid unless Indigenous groups physically occupied the land when the 1988 Brazilian Constitution was signed. ... More
Geneva, December 15 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned the United Nations refugee chief of the Israeli regime's plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is subject to an unrelenting Israeli war. The top diplomat made the remarks to Filipo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Thursday in Geneva, where he attended the Global Refugee Forum 2023 earlier during his stay.... More
Gaza City, December 15 (RHC)-- Israel has once again cut phone and internet service across most of Gaza, further hampering relief efforts. The World Food Program reports half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people is “starving,” while nine out of 10 people are not eating enough and don’t know where their next meal will come from. ... More
Khan Younis, December 15 (RHC)-- Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa has died of wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the TV network has announced.... More
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