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☆ Keeping Lights Off: Undocumented Afghans Go Underground in Pakistan
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +5 min

She is one of thousands believed by rights activists to be in hiding in Pakistan to avoid deportation under a government push for undocumented migrants to leave the country. That includes over one million Afghans, many of whom the Pakistan government says have been involved in militant attacks and crime. 'WORSE THAN PRISON'Reuters spoke to a dozen undocumented migrants trying to stay under the radar of the nationwide sweep. "This is worse than prison," said a 22-year-old Afghan man who said he ensured the lights remained off at night. Some locals who are helping the Afghans arrange for food and water to be secretly smuggled into the shelter under the cover of night.

Persons: Ariba Shahid, Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Sijal Shafiq, Shafiq, Wafa, I'm, Saleh Zada, Gibran Peshimam, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Reuters, Authorities, United Nations Locations: Mohammad Yunus Yawar KARACHI, Pakistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, Karachi, United States, Hazara, Islamabad, France, Canada

Persons: Saleh Zada, Akhtar Soomro, Sijal Shafiq, Shafiq, Wafa, I'm, Gibran Peshimam, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Rights, Authorities, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Badakhshan province, Kabul, Karachi, Pakistan, Rights KARACHI, Afghanistan, United States, Hazara, Islamabad, France, Canada

GAZA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Having rebuffed calls for a ceasefire, Israel was set to come under sustained pressure on Monday to avoid civilian casualties during its assault on Gaza, while a U.S. diplomatic blitz in the region sought to reduce risks of the conflict escalating. But after Blinken repeated U.S. concerns that a ceasefire could aid Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled that out unless hostages held by Hamas were released. "We demand that you stop them from committing these crimes immediately," Abbas told Blinken, urging an "immediate ceasefire" from Israel. "Stop in the name of God," he said, calling for humanitarian aid and help for the injured to ease the "very grave" situation in Gaza. Instead, the U.S. wants localized pauses in fighting to allow in humanitarian aid and for people to leave Gaza.

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☆ Israel-Hamas War Israel Announces ‘Large Attack’ as Communications Blackout Cuts Off Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

“Essentially today there is a northern Gaza and a southern Gaza,” Admiral Hagari said. Earlier in the day, the Israeli military had accused Hamas of using two hospitals in northern Gaza, Sheikh Hamad and Indonesian hospitals, as cover for its operational centers. The Israeli military had earlier made similar accusations about Al Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, and on Friday the Israeli military confirmed an airstrike near that facility. The communications blackout hit Gaza after sunset, around 6:20 p.m. local time, according to NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service. The first blackout on Oct. 27, which began around sunset, lasted nearly 36 hours and spread fear and panic across Gaza as Israel began a ground invasion.

Persons: Daniel Hagari, Israel, Admiral Hagari, ’, Sheikh Hamad, Al Shifa, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Tedros, NetBlocks, Alp Toker, “, ” Mr, Toker Organizations: BBC, West Bank, Al, Gaza’s, Palestine Red Crescent Society, UNRWA, World Health Organization Locations: Gaza City, Gaza, Indonesian, Al Shifa, Palestine, Israel, United States

☆ Blinken says Palestinian voices key to Gaza future
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Simon Lewis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Blinken passed through Israeli checkpoints to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, and then traveled on to Iraq. Palestinian views, voices and aspirations need to be “at the center” of conversations about the future of Gaza, Blinken told reporters in Baghdad. Blinken had some "good ideas" about the future he said, but "now is the time to ....stop the murder of civilians"Abbas told Blinken there should be an immediate ceasefire and that aid should be allowed into Gaza, according to spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh. While Hamas tightly controls besieged Gaza, the West Bank is a complex patchwork of hillside cities, Israeli settlements and army checkpoints that split Palestinian communities. Blinken credited Abbas for tamping down tension in the West Bank and told him he had pressed Israeli officials for accountability, the senior State Department official said.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Blinken, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Abbas, WAFA, Mohammed Shia, Al Sudani, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Matthew Miller, Miller, Jordan, Simon Lewis, Ali Sawafta, Doina Chiacu, Ted Hesson, Hugh Lawson, Alexander Smith, Heather Timmons Organizations: U.S, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian, West Bank, Hamas, CBS, United Nations, senior State Department, Thomson Locations: RAMALLAH, BAGHDAD, Gaza, Ramallah, Iraq, Israel, Baghdad, Iran, United States, East Jerusalem, Palestinian, U.S, United Kingdom, Egypt, Washington

☆ Blinken Meets With Palestinian and Iraqi Leaders in Bid to Contain Gaza War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Adam Entous | More About Adam Entous | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Blinken, who has been in the Middle East since Friday, early in the day held an unannounced meeting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. During his visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah earlier in the day, Mr. Blinken spoke to Mr. Abbas about U.S. efforts to get Israeli leaders to “minimize civilian harm” in Gaza, a senior State Department official said. The Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip says more than 9,700 people in the territory have been killed in the Israeli campaign. Mr. Abbas called for “an immediate halt” to the war in Gaza and an end to Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, which he described as “no less horrific,” according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. An explosion overnight in a densely populated residential area in the central Gaza Strip destroyed several buildings and appeared to have killed and wounded many people, photos and videos from the scene showed.

Persons: Antony J, Blinken, Mahmoud Abbas, ” Mr, Abbas Organizations: West Bank, Sunday, Palestinian, State Department, Health Ministry Locations: Iraq, United States, Gaza, Israel, Iran, Baghdad, Ramallah

A spokesman for the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Israeli forces had struck the camp overnight, killing at least 47 people. In a separate attack, 21 Palestinians from one family, including women and children, were killed in strikes overnight, the health ministry said. 'NO WORDS'"We demand that you stop them from committing these crimes immediately," Abbas told Blinken, urging an "immediate ceasefire" from Israel. The Palestinian health ministry said three Palestinians were killed in the incident, which it described as clashes with Israeli forces. Another Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, the ministry said.

Persons: Gazans, Mahmoud Abbas, Antony Blinken, Jonathan, Saeed al, Abbas, Blinken, WAFA, Israel, Pope Francis, Matthew Miller, Mohammed Salem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Crescent, Gaza's Tal Al, David Satterfield, Cindy McCain, Mc Cain, Abu Dis, Nidal al, Ali Sawafta, Simon Lewis, Dan Williams, Yusri Mohamed, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Clauda Tanos, Michael Perry, Ingrid Melander, William Mallard, Alexander Smith, Conor Humphries Organizations: U.S, West Bank, Israel, U.S . State Department, Gaza, Reuters, United Arab Emirates, Hamas, REUTERS, Palestinian, Food, Thomson Locations: GAZA, RAMALLAH, Egypt, Ramallah, Israel, Rafah, Gaza, U.S, Qatar, Saudi, Jordan, Amman, United States, Palestinian, Al, Quds, Gaza's, Gaza City, Jerusalem, Hebron, Ismailia, Cairo

☆ Israel Announces ‘Large Attack’ as Communications Blackout Cuts Off Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Arab World, US Split on Gaza Ceasefire as Israeli Offensive Presses On
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Israeli military said it was trying to stem violence and protect Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military said it would enable Palestinians to travel on a main Gaza highway, the Salah a-Din road, during a three-hour window on Saturday. Fighting was "fierce" near an Israeli outpost on the outskirts of Gaza City, CNN reported, saying Israeli soldiers were battling Hamas fighters hundreds of meters to the north and south. If we need to get inside Gaza house-by-house, it's exactly what's going to happen," one Israeli soldier told CNN.

Persons: Nidal, Simon Lewis, Suleiman, Khalidi, Antony Blinken, Israel, Blinken, WAFA, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Joe Biden, Biden, Ayman Safadi, Sameh Shoukry, David Satterfield, Salah, Nidal al, Suleiman Al, Dan Williams, Michael Martina, Jarrett Renshaw, Humeyra Pamuk, Paul Simao Organizations: Reuters, Israeli, Blinken, Israel Defence Forces, West Bank, Palestinian, Turkish, United Nations, Bank, CNN Locations: Al, Khalidi GAZA, AMMAN, United States, Gaza, Washington, Israel, Palestinian, Rehoboth Beach , Delaware, London, Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, Jordanian, Jabalia, Ankara, GAZA, Amman, Gaza City, Khalidi, Jerusalem

CNN —A Palestine TV correspondent and 11 members of his family were killed Thursday in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority-run television network, in what it described as an Israeli airstrike. Palestine TV has not published evidence linking it directly to an Israeli strike. Hattab’s death sent shockwaves through his newsroom, with Palestine TV journalist Salman Al Bashir making an emotional on-air report that reduced a television anchor to tears. Palestine TV journalist Salman Al Bashir takes off his vest and helmet while giving an emotional on-air report on Thursday after the death of fellow Palestine TV correspondent, Mohammad Abu Hattab, in Gaza. Al Bashir also said Israel’s weeks-long bombardment of the enclave had become unbearable for Palestinians in Gaza.

Persons: Mohammad Abu Hattab, Nasser, WAFA, Hattab’s, shockwaves, Salman Al Bashir, ”, ” Al Bashir, Al Bashir, “, Gazans, Khan Younis Organizations: CNN, Palestinian Authority, Palestine, Palestine TV, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Protect Journalists Locations: Gaza, Palestine, Ramallah, Israel, Hattab’s, Al Jazeera’s Gaza, Israeli

☆ Opinion: I’m an American stranded in Gaza. Why isn’t the US doing more to bring us home?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Stephanie Griffith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

We were at my wife’s parents house a couple of days into the war when there was an airstrike about 100 feet from my parents’ house. We all huddled together until we had to leave northern Gaza and head south. And my wife’s parents are between northern Gaza and Gaza City itself. And all they would say is, “We don’t have any information.”Listen, we live in northern Gaza. We’ve been told by the State Department transit will be allowed for Americans and their immediate relatives, meaning spouse and children if they’re not American.

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☆ Family of Al Jazeera Gaza journalist, Wael Al-Dahdouh, killed in Gaza strike, says broadcaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Kevin Flower | Tara John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Al Jazeera said its bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al Dahdouh, lost his wife, son, daughter, and grandson in what it said was an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday. “Members of the family of our colleague Wael Al Dahdouh, including his wife, son, and daughter, were martyred in an Israeli bombing,” Al Jazeera wrote in an on-air message. An emotional Al Dahdouh was seen in a video crying as he stood over his son’s body, wrapped in a white sheet. His son Mahmoud was 15 years old, and his daughter Sham was seven years old, Al Jazeera reported. Al Jazeera anchor Abdisalam Farah announced the deaths on air, visibly struggling to keep his composure and tearing up.

Persons: CNN — Al Jazeera, Wael Al Dahdouh, ” Al Jazeera, Al, Adam, Al Jazeera, Al Dahdouh, Mahmoud, Sham, Abdisalam Farah, Tal El Hawa, Al Dahdouh’s, “, Wael Dahdouh, CPJ, Roshdi Sarraj, Melwani, Pierre Meilha, Sophie Jeong Organizations: CNN, IDF, Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Palestinian Ministry of Health, International Press Institute, Protect Journalists, French, Radio France, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Al, Al Aqsa, Al Jazeera, Tal, Ramallah, Gaza City, Zahra, Lebanese

☆ Israel Strikes West Bank Mosque Compound
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli aircraft struck the compound of Al Ansar Mosque, located in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, overnight. The Israel Defense Forces said the site housed underground bunkers used by Hamas to orchestrate and plan attacks. Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that two people were killed and three were injured, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent. Jenin refugee camp has long been a focus of Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. Strikes on mosques remain rare, however.

Persons: Al Ansar, WAFA Organizations: West Bank, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Locations: Al, Jenin, Palestinian, Crescent

☆ Three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank - WAFA news agency
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Palestinians use slings to hurl stones during clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Acquire Licensing RightsOct 19 (Reuters) - Three Palestinians, including two teenagers, were killed by Israeli forces in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank early on Thursday, Palestinian official news agency WAFA said. Israeli forces stormed the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, shooting dead a young man, Gebriel Awad, and wounding another, WAFA said. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in the latest flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israeli forces have carried out their fiercest bombardment of Gaza in response, killing more than 3,000 Palestinians and imposing a total siege on the blockaded enclave that Hamas controls, fuelling anger among Palestinians in the West Bank.

Persons: Ammar Awad, WAFA, Gebriel Awad, Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, Hatem Maher, Ahmed Tolba, Muralikumar Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Palestinian, The West Bank, Palestinian Authority, Al, Thomson Locations: Ramallah, Budrus, Bethlehem, Tulkarm, Israel, Gaza, Jerusalem, Aqsa, Jerusalem's

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday warned that Israel's conflict with Palestinian militant group Hamas will not be a short-term engagement. Palestinian militant group Hamas said an Israeli airstrike in the north of Gaza City killed the head of its Hamas-led security forces. Violence between Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Israeli forces and settlers has meanwhile surged amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. On Thursday, three Palestinians in the West Bank including two teenagers were killed by Israeli forces after they stormed the village of Budrus, Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported. More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel over the same period, according to Israeli authorities.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Rishi Sunak, Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Abdel Fatah el, Sissi, WAFA Organizations: Palestinian, British, Hamas, Gaza City, CNBC, West Bank, Palestinian Health Ministry Locations: al, Zahra, Gaza, Israel, West, Budrus, Lebanon

In video clips verified by The New York Times, scores of Palestinian bodies were filmed strewn across the courtyard of the Ahli Arab Hospital, some bloodied, charred, mangled or in pieces. The explosion at the hospital came a day after Iran warned that “other multiple fronts will open” if Israeli attacks continued to kill civilians in Gaza. Hundreds of families had fled to the hospital in search of refuge after 11 days of Israeli strikes elsewhere in Gaza. Image Two Palestinian children injured in the explosion at Ahli Arab Hospital were taken to another hospital in Gaza, Al-Shifa, for treatment. The Health Ministry in Gaza said that Ahli Arab Hospital was also struck on Sunday.

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☆ First hostage video of 21-year old Mia Shem posted by Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The short video clip shows Mia Schem lying on a bed, her right arm being bandaged by someone out of the frame. Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman, is being held hostage by the militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The video released by Hamas on Monday is the first footage of any of the dozens of people held in the enclave. Schem’s mother told CNN on Monday that she believed her daughter’s resilience would help her survive. She is being held hostage by the group, which released a video of Schem on Monday.

Persons: Mia Schem, Schem’s, Keren Scharf Schem, “, ” Scharf Schem, …, ”, Schem, Libby Weiss, Al, Abu Obaida, WAFA, Scharf Schem, Mia, ” “ Mia, Eli Schem, “ We’re Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, ., ’, IDF Locations: Gaza, Tel Aviv, Israel, Palestinian

☆ Gaza: Desperately needed aid piles up as WHO warns water is running out
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +23 min

Dor Kedmi/AP Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City during an Israeli air strike on October 13. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10. Erik Marmor/AP Six-month-old Sama Alwadia is rescued from the rubble in Gaza City on October 9. Ramez Mahmoud/AP A plume of smoke rises in the sky over Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8.

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☆ They followed evacuation orders -- an Israeli airstrike killed them the next day
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Yahya Abou-Ghazala | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The killings underscore the reality that evacuation zones and warning alerts from the Israeli military haven’t guaranteed safety for civilians in the densely populated Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have no safe place to escape Israeli bombs. In the early hours on Friday, Aaed Al-Ajrami and his nephew, Raji, received a phone call from an Israeli military official – warning him to get everyone he knows and head southwards immediately, the nephew told CNN. Despite following the instructions and successfully fleeing south of the evacuation zone, Aaed’s family was killed by an Israeli airstrike the next day. The next day, an Israeli airstrike in the area destroyed parts of the building where Aaed’s family sought refuge – killing him and 12 other members of his family, including seven children. “You can follow the orders so that you aren’t exposed to danger, but the danger will still reach you wherever you are.”CNN has reached out to the IDF for comment about the airstrike outside of the evacuation zone, including Deir Al Balah.

Persons: CNN —, Aaed Al, Ajrami, Raji, Aaed, ” Aaed, Deir Al Balah, ” Raji, “, Deir Al, Yara Alhayek, …, Israel, Israel’s, ”, Mohammad Shtayyeh, Martin Griffiths Organizations: CNN, Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, Independent UN, Palestinian, Hamas, United Nations, UN Office, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Gaza, Wadi Gaza, Gaza City, Deir Al, Deir Al Balah, Israel, “

☆ Hamas critique removed from Palestinians' Abbas comments on Israel attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2023. The comments, published by WAFA on its website, came during a phone call between Abbas and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Abbas' Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He has long been opposed to Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007 and ousted Fatah party forces loyal to Abbas. Abbas also heads the PLO, the umbrella group that represented the Palestinians in past U.S.-sponsored peace talks with Israel.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Brendan McDermid, WAFA, Abbas, Nicolas Maduro, Fatah, Rami Ayyub, Hatem Maher, Ahmed Tolba, Deepa Babington, Lisa Shumaker, Sonali Paul Organizations: General Assembly, REUTERS, Palestinian, Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, West Bank, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, Gaza, Israel

☆ President Abbas says Hamas' actions do not represent Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Acquire Licensing RightsOct 15 (Reuters) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the actions and policies of Islamist group Hamas do not represent Palestinian people, according to official news agency WAFA. In a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Abbas also called the Palestine Liberation Organization the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," WAFA said. "The president affirmed his rejection of the killing of civilians on both sides and called for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees on both sides," added the news agency. Reporting by Hatem Maher and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Deepa Babington and Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Brendan McDermid, Nicolas Maduro, Abbas, WAFA, Hatem Maher, Ahmed Tolba, Deepa Babington, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: General Assembly, REUTERS, Palestinian, WAFA, Venezuelan, Palestine Liberation Organization, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, Palestine

☆ Palestinian Authority President Criticizes Hamas in Call With Venezuelan Leader
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Fatima Abdulkarim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the actions of Hamas in a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA, his first public comments on the group since the Oct. 7 killings of Israeli civilians by Hamas. Abbas, who said Hamas’s actions don’t represent the Palestinian people, called for the release of “civilians, prisoners, and detainees on both sides of the conflict.” He also urged an “immediate cessation of Israeli aggression against Palestinians” and called for the opening of urgent humanitarian corridors to Gaza.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Nicolás Maduro, WAFA, Abbas, ” Organizations: Venezuelan Locations: Gaza

☆ Israel and Hamas at war: Latest News
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Scores of Israeli and foreign hostages were taken back to Gaza; Israel says it has identified 97 of them. [1/6]Israeli soldiers patrol following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, in southern Israel, October 11, 2023. * The war falls under a complex international system of justice that has emerged since World War Two. * International airlines have suspended hundreds of flights to and from Tel Aviv following the attack by Hamas militants on Israel. * Israel has raised $200 million in diaspora bonds since the war with Hamas began, Israel Bonds said.

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☆ Palestinian President Abbas condemns violence against civilians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Ali Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet on the sidelines of the 6th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA), in Astana, Kazakhstan October 13, 2022. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsRAMALLAH, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned violence against civilians on Thursday in the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas gunmen on Israel and the relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israeli jets that followed. "We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides because they contravene morals, religion and international law," the official Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted Abbas as saying. Earlier, Israeli settlers in the West Bank killed two Palestinians when they opened fire on a funeral procession. A 37-year-old woman was also killed when she was shot by security forces near Ramallah, the main city in the West bank, according to Palestinian health services.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Abbas, Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Antony Blinken, Abbas, Wafa, Blinken, Israel, Fatah, Ali Sawafta, James Mackenzie, Mark Heinrich, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Sputnik, U.S, Palestinian Authority, West Bank, Thomson Locations: Asia, Astana, Kazakhstan, RAMALLAH, Israel, Gaza, Jordan, East Jerusalem, Al Aqsa, Jerusalem, Old City, Palestinian, Ramallah, West

☆ World reacts to Hamas attack on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa Acquire Licensing RightsOct 8 (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on Saturday. Germany condemns these attacks by Hamas and stands by Israel," Scholz said on social media. However, Morocco's Islamist PJD party, which had been the largest in parliament until elections in 2021, praised the Hamas attack as "a heroic act" and "a natural and legitimate reaction to daily violations". EUROPEAN UNIONEU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said: "I unequivocally condemn the attack carried out by Hamas terrorists against Israel. INDONESIA"Indonesia is very concerned about the increasing escalation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel," the foreign ministry the world’s largest Muslim-majority country said on X.

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