Israel severs ties with UN Palestinian aid agency
• Jan 31, 2025, 10:27 AM
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Israel, backed by Washington, will cease contact with the UN's Palestinian humanitarian relief agency UNRWA and any body acting on its behalf, its UN envoy said Tuesday, drawing condemnation from aid groups. UNRWA's offices and staff in Israel play a major role in the provision of healthcare and education to Palestinians, including those living in Gaza, devastated by 15 months of war with Israel.
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Israel urged to ‘work with UN’ as UNRWA warns of threat to Gaza ceasefire
• 1:15 PM
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France, Britain and Germany on Friday reiterated their "grave concern" over Israel implementing a law forbidding any contact between its officials and UNRWA as the UN Palestinian relief agency warned that any forced halt of its work would put a fragile c
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Israel receives names of three hostages to be released Saturday
• 11:45 AM
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Israel said it had received the names of captives to be freed by Hamas on Saturday in the fourth hostage-prisoner swap of the Gaza ceasefire. The three hostages to be released are Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky
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Syria's interim president al-Sharaa vows to uphold 'civil peace'
• 10:30 AM
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Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa, who was appointed interim president a day earlier for an un
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Israel severs ties with UN Palestinian aid agency
• 10:27 AM
1 min
Israel, backed by Washington, will cease contact with the UN's Palestinian humanitarian relief agency UNRWA and any body acting on its behalf, its UN envoy said Tuesday, drawing condemnation from aid groups. UNRWA's offices and staff in Israel play a maj
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Who's the man behind the Gaza ceasefire deal?
• 9:36 AM
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Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff made a rare trip to Gaza this week, the White House said, in a bid to prop up the fragile ceasefire. He also met Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. An unusual figure in US politics, Witkoff, a billionaire r
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Live: Franco-Israeli Ofer Calderon to be freed in next hostage-prisoner swap Saturday, Hamas says
• 6:44 AM
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Franco-Israeli Ofer Calderon is among the three hostages set to be freed in the next hostage-prisoner exchange Saturday, the spokesperson of Hamas's armed wing said Friday. The news of his upcoming release came as Israel's military said it struck "multip
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