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Family pleads for release of Nepali student abducted by Hamas
Kathmandu: The family of a Nepali man taken captive by the Palestinian militant group Hamas appealed Thursday to his captors for his release, stressing that he has no involvement in the conflict…
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Israel deporting 6 more activists detained on Gaza aid boat, rights group says
Jerusalem: Israel is deporting six more activists who were detained when it seized an aid boat bound for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, according to the rights group representing them. The six include…
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Hamas kills 12 fighters in Gaza; Israeli-backed group says they were aid workers
Cairo: A unit of the Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed militia after detaining them early Thursday in the Gaza Strip. Hours earlier, an Israel-supported aid group…
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Israel recovers bodies of two more hostages from Gaza
Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the bodies of two hostages had been recovered from Gaza in a joint operation carried out by the Israeli military and the domestic…
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90 pc Gaza schools completely destroyed: UN report
United Nations: A new report by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) has raised alarm over the scale of destruction in Gaza, accusing Israeli forces of damaging or destroying…
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Over 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war: Gaza health officials
Tel Aviv: The Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war has climbed past 55,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, meanwhile, said that Israel’s…
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Six killed by Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid site, Hamas officials
Khan Younis: Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and US-supported food distribution centre in the Gaza Strip early Monday. Gaza’s Health Ministry…
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Israel says body of Hamas commander Mohammed Sinwar recovered from Gaza tunnel
Jerusalem: The Israeli military said that it had recovered the body of Mohammed Sinwar, head of Hamas’ military wing, from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip and taken it to Israel.…
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Israel seizes Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen with Greta Thunberg on board
Jerusalem: Israeli forces stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists who were on board early Monday, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been…
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Four Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital
At least four Palestinian journalists were killed in the latest Israeli strike on the grounds of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, June 5. The journalists who lost their lives…
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Israel strikes Beirut’s suburbs to target what it says is Hezbollah drone production
Beirut: The Israeli military struck several sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs that it said held underground facilities used by Hezbollah for drone production Thursday, on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday.…
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UN conference to push for two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
United Nations: The United Nations chief on Thursday urged world leaders and officials attending an upcoming UN conference on ending the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict “to keep the two-state solution alive.” Secretary-General Antonio…
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Israel says it has recovered the bodies of 2 Israeli-American hostages from the Gaza
Tel Aviv: Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip, officials said Thursday. Prime Minister Benjamin…
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US and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings
Gaza Strip: An Israeli- and US-backed group paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a…
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Gaza officials say Israeli forces killed 27 heading to aid site
Rafah: Israeli forces fired on people as they headed toward an aid distribution site in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 27, Palestinian health officials and witnesses said, in the third such…
