Middle East

UN refugee agency cautions ‘Gaza catastrophe’ threatens to raise record global displacement

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The UN refugee agency has warned that the “catastrophe” unfolding in the Gaza Strip threatens to create additional displacement across the Middle East.
Middle East

Israeli opposition leader: Netanyahu lying over Gaza war

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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of persistently lying and evading responsibility while Israeli soldiers are being killed in the Gaza Strip.
Middle East

Israel says to continue Gaza war, 18,600 Palestinians killed so far

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Israel will continue its war against the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip regardless of the absence of international support, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has said. Over 18,600 Palestinians have died so far in Israeli war on Gaza.
Europe

Ukraine urges EU not to wait for US

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has insisted EU leaders should stop looking to Washington when making decisions regarding continued support for Kiev.
Europe

Russia has lost nearly 90% of troops it had prior to Ukraine war: US intelligence assessment

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Russia has lost a staggering 87 percent of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its military operation against Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks, a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN.
Middle East

Ten Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza ambush

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Ten Israeli soldiers, including a senior colonel who commanded a forward base of an elite infantry unit, were killed Tuesday in an ambush in northern Gaza, the Israel army confirmed on Wednesday.
Middle East

Yemen advises vessels not to travel towards Palestinian territoriesv

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Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, the head of Yemen's Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, has posted a message on the social media platform X, telling cargo ships not to head towards the occupied Palestinian territories.
Middle East

Iran says Israel’s treatment of Palestinian captives reminder of Daesh

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has stressed the way the Israeli regime treated a group of Palestinians it captured earlier this week in the Gaza Strip is reminiscent of the terrorist acts carried out by the Daesh group in Iraq and Syria in recent years.
Middle East

Palestinian health ministry and WHO say diseases including chicken pox, meningitis and other infections spread in Gaza

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Diseases including chicken pox, meningitis and upper respiratory tract infections are spreading in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian and international medical authorities have cautioned, as living conditions deteriorate due to the ongoing Israeli siege and offensive.
Middle East

Israel begins flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater “on a limited basis”: US

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The Israelis informed the US that they have begun “carefully testing out” flooding some of Gaza's tunnels with seawater “on a limited basis” to test the ability to degrade the tunnel network on a larger scale, an American official told CNN on Tuesday.
Europe

Russia says working on ‘major new deal’ with Iran

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced Moscow and Tehran plan to speed up work on a “major new interstate agreement” as the two allies forge closer bilateral relations.
Europe

EU counties consider ‘Plan B’ for Ukraine aid

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Kiev’s main backers in the EU may overcome Hungarian opposition to the proposed allocation of $54 billion in long-term aid for Ukraine by providing funds outside of the bloc’s joint budget, the Financial Times has reported.
Middle East

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli drone strike on Jenin, West Bank

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An Israeli drone attack on Jenin north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killed four Palestinians and wounded several others, the local health ministry has confirmed.
Middle East

Israel dropped over 22k bombs on Gaza in six weeks: Report

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Israel has dropped more than 22,000 guided and unguided bombs on the Gaza Strip in the first six weeks of its war on the besieged enclave, a new report has revealed.
Europe

US delays in Ukraine aid fulfill Putin’s ‘dreams’: Zelensky

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an impassioned plea for continued US military support in a Washington speech, warning that failure to help Kiev defeat Russian invasion is fulfilling the Kremlin’s “dreams of wrecking democracy in Europe."
Middle East

Europe in panic mode over rapid depletion of military stockpiles amid Ukraine war: Report

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Unease and alarm are rising across many European states over the weakened state of national armed forces and depleted military arsenals as the United States takes an increasingly isolationist stance in the Ukrainian conflict, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
Middle East

MSF warns Gaza healthcare system ‘totally collapsed’

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The Emergency Coordinator at Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Marie-Aure Perreaut, has warned that the Gaza healthcare system has now “completely collapsed”.
Middle East

Israeli soldiers ‘arbitrarily’ detain Palestinian women and girls from Gaza

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The Israeli army has arbitrarily arrested dozens of women and girls from Gaza without disclosing their whereabouts or the charges they face, Palestinian groups and families have confirmed.
Middle East

Israel used US-supplied internationally banned weapons in Lebanon: Report

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Israel has used US-supplied internationally banned white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon, according to a Washington Post investigation.
Middle East

General strikes in East Jerusalem, West Bank, Lebanon in support of Gaza

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General strikes were declared Monday in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Lebanon in a display of solidarity with Gaza, as Israel's war on Gaza continues in the besieged enclave.
Middle East

Israel accused of staging footage of stripped Palestinians surrendering weapons

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Israel's military has been accused of staging footage showing stripped Palestinian men handing over weapons in the Gaza Strip.
Europe

European commission president issues reality check on Ukrainian membership

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Ukraine’s possible accession to the EU will not be on the agenda at the bloc’s summit this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said. She added that the 27 leaders of the European Union would merely discuss whether to launch membership talks with Kiev, with the road to actual accession likely to be lengthy.
Middle East

Israeli military confirms 100 soldiers killed in Gaza

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Three Israeli soldiers have been killed fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of Israel's so-called Defense Forces  killed during the ongoing military operation in the enclave to 100, the IDF confirmed Monday.
Middle East

Israel says 12k missiles fired by Hamas since early October

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At least 12,000 missiles have been fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip at Israel since October 7, Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy has stated.
Middle East

Hamas says to free Israeli captives only if demands are met

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The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has stressed it will never buckle under the pressure of incessant Israeli attacks on Gaza to release Israeli captives it took in early October unless its demands are met.
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