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Antonio Guterres says the divisions within the UN Security Council are ‘dangerous’.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is entering into an “age of chaos” as the UN Security Council remains sharply divided over Israel’s war on Gaza. Guterres said he was “especially alarmed” after Israel said last week that it intends to focus its military assault in Gaza on the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million people have sought shelter. “Such an action would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences,” he told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.…

NewsFeedA 14-year-old girl who went to collect water was killed by an Israeli sniper outside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, which has been under siege by Israeli forces.Published On 8 Feb 20248 Feb 2024 Source link

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International negotiations continue on a possible ceasefire.Talks are under way about a possible ceasefire in Gaza – while Israel is still bombing much of the besieged territory after rejecting a Hamas offer for a lengthy pause. So what next? And when will respite come for millions of Palestinians suffering from months of bombardment? Presenter: Adrian Finighan Guests: Daniel Levy – President of the US-Middle East Project and a former peace negotiator for Israel Mustafa Barghouti – Secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative Akbar Shahid Ahmed – Senior diplomatic correspondent for HuffPost Source link

Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s internally displaced population is sheltering, as the United States warned that a military push into the city could be a “disaster”. Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if Israel follows through on its threat to enter Rafah, where people are desperate for shelter and one of the last remaining areas of the Gaza Strip into which its troops have not moved. “To conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in an area” where one million people…

NewsFeedThe scale of destruction across Gaza has been described as being among the worst in modern history. Al Jazeera’s Nada Qaddourah illustrates the extent of the damage through maps.Published On 8 Feb 20248 Feb 2024 Source link

Rafah, Gaza Strip – Seham al-Najjar and her family have nowhere else to run if Israel intensifies its assault on Rafah, a town in southernmost Gaza. Like 1.8 million people, Seham fled to Rafah in search of relative safety from Israel’s relentless bombardment and ground invasion in other parts of the Gaza Strip. She arrived weeks ago with 20 members of her family from Khan Younis, a city that Israel designated as “safe” at the start of the war and then reduced to rubble in December. Seham fears that Rafah could suffer an even worse fate. Israeli Prime Minister “Benjamin Netanyahu…

Baghdad says the US ‘has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict’.Iraq has denounced a US drone strike in Baghdad that killed a commander of an Iran-aligned group, saying the United States-led military coalition in the country is becoming a “factor for instability”. Army spokesperson Yahya Rasool said on Thursday that repeated attacks by the US in Iraq are pushing the government to end the coalition’s mission. The US has conducted frequent attacks, targeting Iran-backed armed groups that it said were behind missile and drone strikes on its troops in Iraq and…

Officials said an investigation was launched as the search was ongoing for 27 missing people.At least 13 Sudanese asylum seekers have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia. A Tunisian judicial official said on Thursday that 27 people were still missing after their boat sank on Wednesday, having set off from Jebiniana, a town near the Mediterranean port city of Sfax. The boat was carrying 42 people, all of them Sudanese, and two people were rescued, said Farid Ben Jha, a court spokesperson in the coastal Tunisian city of Monastir. The asylum seekers were likely “exploited in a…

PodcastPodcast, The TakeAntony Blinken arrived in the Middle East to seal a truce deal, but he leaves with Israel promising ‘total victory’. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Middle East this week for the fifth time since October 7. There were hopes he could seal a truce for Gaza. But by the end of his trip, Israel had stepped up attacks on Palestinians in southern Gaza, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised no end to the war without “victory”. So what progress has the US made? In this episode:  Episode credits: This episode was produced by Sari el-Khalili…