Southern Gaza is ‘pressure cooker of despair’ says UN
The comments come as Israel prepares to advance its war on Gaza farther south.
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UNRWA could shut down by end of February if funding does not resume
A string of countries including the United States, Germany and Britain have paused their funding to the aid agency in the wake of allegations that some UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel.
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What is UNRWA, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency the U.S. cut off aid to?
Major donors to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) have suspended funding after allegations emerged that around 12 of its tens of thousands of Palestinian employees were suspected of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas. But what is the UNRWA and what does it do?
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Israel ‘hit squad’ execute three Palestinians in middle of a hospital
Israeli commandos disguised as Palestinians killed three gunmen in a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the police and military said, accusing one of them of planning an imminent attack and the other two of involvement in recent violence.
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Gaza starves as Israel presses war on Hamas
A U.N.-backed report says the whole population of Gaza faces crisis levels of hunger and a growing risk of famine.
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Israel and Palestinians risk deeper conflict in a distracted world
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – After bloodshed in Jerusalem and the West Bank and a month since Israel’s most right-wing government took office, Israel and the Palestinians risk sliding into a cycle of wider confrontation with pressure on both sides for retaliation, analysts say. A Palestinian gunman shot dead seven people near a synagogue in Jerusalem’s outskirts
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In West Bank, Blinken presses for two-state solution
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank on Tuesday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington’s backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict. Blinken is urging calm on both sides after last week’s killing by a Palestinian gunman of seven people outside
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