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Iran says UNSC resolution on Gaza ceasefire positive step but in sufficient

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani says the UN Security Council’s move to pass a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is “positive but insufficient”.

World will be judged for children suffering in Gaza Strip: WHO chief

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has stated that the world will be judged for the suffering of children in the Gaza Strip.

Israel trapped in Gaza quagmire: Iran FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says that the Zionist regime has gotten stuck in a crisis in the Gaza Strip, adding that the era of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to an end.

2,000 medical staff in northern Gaza need food: Health Ministry

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has renewed its call for humanitarian aid for more than 2,000 medical personnel in northern Gaza who are facing famine like many other residents of the besieged enclave.

Hamas says Israel’s threats to eliminate resistance empty

A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has stated Israel will not achieve any of its proclaimed goals in the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza and will not be able to eliminate the resistance.

UN chief: 4 out of 5 hungriest people globally are in Gaza

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has once again sounded the alarm on the dire humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip, lamenting that four out of “five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are" in the coastal territory.

Biden says did not ask for ceasefire in Gaza during phone call with Netanyahu

US President Joe Biden says he did not call for a ceasefire in Gaza during his phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

UN agency says “no place is safe” in Gaza as Israel calls for new areas to evacuate

Thomas White, a top official with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, has warned Israel's military call for the evacuation of new parts of central Gaza, will impact more than 150,000 people — many already displaced.

100 journalists killed since start of war: Gaza media office

At least 100 journalists have been killed since Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip began on October 7, according to new figures released by the government media office in Gaza.

Ten Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza ambush

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.

Yemen advises vessels not to travel towards Palestinian territoriesv

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.

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

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.

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

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.

UN General Assembly passes resolution for ceasefire in Gaza

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip which has been under Israel's bombardment since early October.

US veto of UNSC resolution license for Gaza genocide: Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said by blocking the United Nations Security Council's resolution, the US has actually granted Israel a license to continue its genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza destruction worse than In WWII Germany: EU foreign policy chief

The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has sounded a serious alarm about the extent of destruction caused across the besieged Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's war on the Palestinian territory.

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

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.

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

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

Divisions over Gaza ‘paralyzed’ UNSC: Guterres

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he regrets the Security Council’s failure to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, condemning the divisions that have “paralyzed” the world body.

Situation in Gaza Strip ‘getting worse by the hour’: WHO

A World Health Organization official in Gaza said on Tuesday the situation in the enclave is "getting worse by the hour" as Israel has intensified its bombardment of Gaza, according to Reuters.

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