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Israeli defence officials and former senior intelligence officers have said they expect fighting in Gaza to continue for at least a year, raising the prospect of thousands more civilian casualties, a deepening humanitarian crisis and a continuing grave threat to regional stability. In a briefing, Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israel Defense…
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A displaced Palestinian family has described their struggle after being displaced from their home in northern Gaza and forced to live in a tent in a refugee camp to the south. The 10-person Abu Jarad family fled their three-bedroom home in northern Gaza after the war broke out nearly three months ago. They are now…
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The Chinese embassy in Myanmar has requested that its citizens leave a border district in Myanmar as soon as possible due to security concerns. The call to evacuate the Laukkai area in the Kokang region, along the countries’ shared border, came on Thursday as Myanmar’s military fought an alliance of ethnic armed groups fighting to…
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China has lodged protests to Myanmar after five people were injured by artillery shells fired during battles between its ruling junta and rebel groups that landed in its small town near their border, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday, CNN reported. While addressing a press conference on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang…
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Children forcibly deported in Ukraine. Boys and girls killed in Israel/Palestine. Girls raped in Darfur, in western Sudan. These and other children around the world are victims – in huge numbers – of grave international crimes. Worldwide during wartime, children are killed, tortured, wrongfully detained, sexually assaulted, abducted, and forced into national armies and armed groups. The targeting…
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Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday denied Iranian claims that its Oct. 7 attacks against Israel were in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020. Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary…
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A released hostage has outlined her experience as she and three of her children spent 51 days in the hands of the Hamas gunmen who abducted them. Chen Almog-Goldstein told the Reuters news agency she had to quickly stifle tears after watching her husband and her eldest daughter be shot and killed during the 7…
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Syrian media is reporting that explosions heard near the capital of Damascus are the result of “Israeli aggression”. Explosions were heard in the vicinity of Damascus, and investigations were ongoing to verify their nature, the country’s state news agency reported earlier. This is the most recent in a series of reported Israeli strikes in Syria. …
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The Christmas Eve attack on the Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza has been one the deadliest in the war. The UN reported that 86 people were killed in the carnage. Footage taken by a Sky News team of the aftermath showed massive destruction, bodies dragged from beneath the rubble and the shrapnel scarred…
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The UN announced the appointment of a coordinator to oversee humanitarian relief shipments into Gaza. It comes as part of a UN Security Council resolution adopted on Friday to boost aid. Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands will be the senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza and will start the role on 8 January the UN…
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Dozens of bodies were buried in a mass grave in Rafah, southern Gaza, today. They had been held by Israeli forces in northern Gaza before being transferred to UN and Gaza medical workers at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Gaza, Israel, and Egypt. Medical workers who entered the truck quickly left after opening some…
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Israel’s military chief has said it’s “too ambitious” to think that the war will end with “no enemy” surrounding the country. Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi repeated comments made by other top officials that the war “will go on for many months”. Speaking at the border with Gaza, he said: “Ultimately, will we…
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Over the past 12 weeks we have been following the video diaries of 21-year-old Gazan Oday Basheer. US-based reporter Mark Stone first met Oday in Gaza at the end of the 11-day war in 2021. Mark and Oday stayed in touch and he has been sending over snapshots and reflections of the situation inside the territory.…
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There will be “tactical pauses for humanitarian pauses” to allow civilians in the Gaza Strip to replenish stocks such as food and water, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has said. COGAT, a unit in the Israeli defence ministry, said the pause is taking place in Deir al-Balah from 10am-2pm. On Friday, the UN…
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The people in Gaza fear “the world will look the other way” from the ongoing conflict during the festive period. Reporting from Jerusalem, Nichole Johnston of Sky News says the latest airstrike in central Gaza was “very heavy” and there are some 130,000 Palestinians still in the area. “It’s been a heavy few day of…
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This year has seen human devastation reach an “unprecedented scale” and the “intense trauma” from the Israel-Hamas war will likely impact people for decades, a Red Cross aid worker has said. The desperate situation brought about by conflict, earthquakes and floods across various parts of the globe can leave “deep trauma and psychological impacts on…
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