US condemns far-right Israeli ministers’ call for Palestinians to ‘emigrate’ from Gaza

The United States on Tuesday denounced controversial comments by two far-right Israeli ministers who said Palestinians should be encouraged to emigrate from Gaza and called for Jewish settlers to return to the besieged territory. Issued on: 03/01/2024 – 10:54 2 min State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington “rejects recent statements from Israeli ministers Bezalel …

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Fighting in northern Myanmar displaces almost 50,000 civilians, UN says

Almost 50,000 people have been displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched an offensive against the military two weeks ago, the United Nations said Friday. Issued on: 10/11/2023 – 07:01 3 min Fighting has raged for two weeks across northern Shan state near the Chinese border, in what …

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Lebanon to lodge complaint with UNSC over Israel’s civilian killings

Lebanon will take Israel’s recent killing of Lebanese civilians to the U.N. Security Council, the country’s top diplomat said Monday. Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib on Monday described Israel’s killing of Lebanese civilians as a “war crime.” On Sunday, Israel struck a civilian car in southern Lebanon, killing three children and their grandmother, according to …

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Casualties reported as Israel strikes refugee camp market in Gaza

Scores of people were killed and injured after Israeli forces targeted a marketplace in a refugee camp in central Gaza in airstrikes on Saturday, the blockaded enclave’s interior ministry said. “There are fatalities and a significant number of injuries in the Israeli army’s targeting of the Nusseirat Market in the central Gaza Strip,” the ministry …

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