Middle East
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Gazans on tenterhooks awaiting news of ceasefire call
Amid growing international calls for restraint from Israel in Gaza and reports on Wednesday of further deadly strikes overnight, UN…
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Guterres calls on Israel and Hamas to end Gaza war
With the situation in Gaza “worsening by the day”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for Israeli and Hamas…
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‘Extraordinary, deep anxiety’ in Gaza over feared Rafah attack
Ordinary Gazans remain in a “constant state of trauma” over an impending full-scale Israeli attack on the enclave’s southernmost city…
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Gaza war spillover compounds misery for most vulnerable in Lebanon
Children as young as four are being forced to go to work in Lebanon amid a “massive collapse” in humanitarian…
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Gaza at ‘most dangerous’ stage amid huge unexploded weapons risk, warns demining expert
The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step…
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Children’s shoes left behind illustrate chaos of fleeing Khan Younis: UN humanitarians
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, reached one of its now-abandoned schools in Khan Younis at the weekend, where…
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Signing the war in Gaza: Overcoming deafness and displacement
Bassem Al-Habal carried a large bag of flour provided by the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, inside one of…
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Gaza’s unexploded ordnance could take 14 years to clear
Making Gaza safe again from unexploded bombs could take 14 years, UN demining experts said on Friday. Pehr Lodhammar, a…
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Syria crisis intensifies in shadow of Gaza war
The war in Gaza continues to cast a dark shadow over the wider Middle East region, in particular Syria where…
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Gaza: Heatwave brings new misery and disease risk to Rafah
Unexpected blistering temperatures across Gaza have added to the daily misery faced by the enclave’s people and sparked new fears…
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