Friday, January 31, 2025

middle east

violence in West Bank

Live blog: Gaza death toll tops 34,600 as Israeli onslaught continues

Israel's war on Gaza, now on its 210th day, has killed at least 34,622 Palestinians — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 77,867.
Israel-Hamas deal 'now'

Live blog: US determined to get Israel-Hamas deal ‘now’— Blinken

Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 208th day, has killed at least 34,535 Palestinians — 70% of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 77,704 while some 8,400 are feared entombed in the debris of bombed structures.
stench of death

‘We didn’t expect to find bones’

The stench of death filled the halls of Gaza City’s Ahli Arab Hospital. Bodies – many already decomposing – lay in heaps on the floor, next to injured patients writhing in pain.
Heat wave

Heat wave kills two Palestinian children in Gaza

At least two Palestinian children have lost their lives due to a heat wave in Gaza, the UN refugee agency UNRWA said on Sunday.
Gaza a 'repeat of Auschwitz

Gaza a ‘repeat of Auschwitz without the gas chambers’—Nobel peace nominee

What is happening in Gaza is a “repeat of Auschwitz” and a “collective white imperialist man’s genocide,” a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar has said.
Ben-Gvir

Far-right Israel minister Ben-Gvir injured in car crash

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has been involved in a car accident in which his car overturned after a visit to the city of Ramla.
child sexual abuse

No country for children: The not-so-hidden horrors of child sexual abuse in Pakistan

Recent reports of sexual molestation of children by clerics and incriminating videos of corporal punishment of madrassa students are neither new discoveries, nor particular to Pakistan.
invade Rafah

Israel’s war on Gaza hits 200th day amid plans to invade Rafah

Despite international warnings about a planned Israeli invasion against Rafah, the army persists to go ahead in attacking the tiny city that is home to over a million displaced Palestinians.
Retaliatory spiral in Middle East

Retaliatory spiral in Middle East must end, says UN chief after reported strikes on...

Following reports of alleged Israeli strikes inside Iran near a nuclear power station early Friday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a new appeal to all parties to “stop the dangerous cycle of retaliation in the Middle East”.
retaliate against Iran

Israel says it will retaliate against Iran. These are the risks that could pose...

Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran, risking further expanding the shadow war between the two foes into a direct conflict after an Iranian attack over the weekend sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel.

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