Top UN officials warn of an “apocalyptic” situation in Gaza

Top UN officials warn of an “apocalyptic” situation in Gaza

The World Health Organisation says the situation for Gaza is "getting worse by the hour". According to the UN's aid coordination office between December 3 and the afternoon of 4 December at least 349 Palestinians were killed and 750 injured. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appealed to the IDF to spare civilians from more suffering especially since the fighting has now moved south. Jody Jacobs reports from the United […]

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UN Human Rights Office calls for political solution for Israel-Hamas conflict

The United Nations Human Rights Office is calling for a political solution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, built on the only viable long-term basis, the full respect of the human rights of Palestinians and Israelis. UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk says the renewed and intensified hostilities will lead to even more deaths, diseases, and destruction than seen before.

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Blinken says Israel must protect civilians when fighting resumes

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned efforts must be made to prevent violence in Gaza from enveloping the region. The US' top diplomat met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday. This comes after a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas was extended for a seventh day. Sally Patterson has more.

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Blinken holds meetings with officials in Middle East

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with top officials in Israel and the West Bank, in his third visit to the region since October 7. This comes after a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas was extended for a seventh day on Thursday. The United States says it supports Israel's right to defend itself, while also stressing civilians in Gaza should be protected. Sally Patterson has more.

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Pope warned Israel’s President not to “respond to terror with terror”

Pope Francis warned Israel's President not to "respond to terror with terror" in a phone call about the conflict in Gaza last month. That's according to a report in the Washington Post newspaper. Our Rome correspondent Giles Gibson has the details.

December 1, 2023 6

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Temporary humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas extended

A temporary humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended for a seventh day as negotiations continue in hopes of reaching a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. However, three people have been killed in a shooting in Jerusalem with the attackers thought to have been Hamas members. Here’s Richard Makepeace from Medical Aid for Palestinians.

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Latest developments in Israel-Hamas war

srael and Hamas have agreed to extend by one more day a truce under which hostages are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and aid flows into the war-devastated Gaza Strip. Militants took about 240 captives from southern Israel during an unprecedented October 7 attack that Israeli officials say killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. In response, Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas, an Islamist movement with an armed wing. […]

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Former Hamas hostage, aged nine, now only ‘whispers’: father

Emily Hand, the nine-year-old girl released after Hamas held her hostage for 50 days, will now only talk in whispers having been ordered to stay silent by her captors, her father told British tabloid The Sun in an interview published on Wednesday. "She was a normal happy noisy kid but now she whispers -- she was moving her lips with no volume or even air coming out," Thomas Hand was […]

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