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15.03.2024 10:40 The Palestinian Health Ministry's headquarters in the Gaza Strip has announced that the number of martyrs in the besieged area has reached 31,341 since October 7, 2023, up until now.

15.03.2024 10:40 Israel seeks to forcibly displace a significant part of 1.4 million Palestinians currently sheltering in Rafah toward the so-called "humanitarian islands" in the center of the territory ahead of an incursion into Gaza's southernmost city.

15.03.2024 10:40 The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says at least five people, including a staff member, were killed and 22 others wounded after Israeli forces targeted a food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

15.03.2024 10:40 Since the horrific terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, violence in the West Bank has increased sharply. Extremist settler violence against Palestinian and Israeli civilians and forced displacement of farmers and villages is a serious threat to the peace, security, and stability of West Bank, Israel, and the broader region.

15.03.2024 10:40 The United States' controversial decision to pause its funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees earlier this year is reportedly likely to become "permanent."

15.03.2024 10:40 The DKK 105 million contribution will primarily support UNRWA's efforts to mitigate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. The disbursement follows the initiation of a number of necessary UN measures, and decisions by like-minded such as Sweden and Canada, as well as the EU, to disburse aid to UNRWA.

15.03.2024 10:40 The Government is reiterating its position on Israel's settlement policy on occupied land by advising Norwegian companies not to engage in business cooperation or trade that serves to perpetuate the illegal Israeli settlements.

15.03.2024 10:40 The German Armed Forces will participate in an airlift of humanitarian aid for Gaza, and the deployment of aid could begin as early as the end of the week, Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday.

15.03.2024 10:40 Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf, and the European Union's Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Sven Koopmans, discussed here on Wednesday efforts to achieve a ceasefire and facilitate humanitarian actions in the Gaza Strip, said a statement by the Algerian Foreign Ministry.

15.03.2024 10:40 The Islamic Resistance of Iraq has announced targeting yet another Israeli military base located near a city off the Mediterranean coast.

15.03.2024 10:40 The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has announced that its fighters will continue strikes on the Israeli regime's military gatherings in northern occupied Palestine.

15.03.2024 10:40 Lebanon's Hezbollah Resistance Movement released pictures and video of attacks it carried out on Zionist regime positions on Saturday night.

15.03.2024 10:40 An Afghan education official says Taliban authorities may permanently close girls' secondary schools, promoting religious schools known as madrasas as an alternative.

15.03.2024 10:40 The Security Council today decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan until 30 April 2024, unanimously adopting resolution 2726 ) under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

15.03.2024 10:40 Latvia condemns the organization of the Russian presidential "election" in the Transnistrian region of Moldova as well as in the regions of Georgia - Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are under a temporary occupation by the Russian armed forces, and will not recognise the results of the said "election" in those regions.