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Queen of Jordan Rania Al-Abdullah
Being pro-Palestinian does not equal being ‘antisemitic’, says Jordan’s Queen Rania
AMMAN — Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan has called for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas, saying that supporting the protection of Palestinian lives does not equal being antisemitic or pro-terrorism.“Let me be very, very clear. Being pro-Palestinian is not being antisemitic, being pro-Palestinian does not mean you’re pro-Hamas or pro-terrorism,” Rania told CNN’s Becky Anderson on Sunday.“What we’ve seen in recent years is the charge of antisemitism being weaponized in order to silence any criticism of Israel,” she said.“I want to absolutely and wholeheartedly condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia...but I also want to remind everyone that Israel does not represent all the Jewish people around the world. Israel is a state and is alone is responsible for its own...
November 06, 2023

Being pro-Palestinian does not equal being ‘antisemitic’, says Jordan’s Queen Rania

A picture shared by US Central Command appears to show a guided missile submarine in the Suez Canal passing under the Al Salam Bridge northeast of Cairo
US says guided missile sub has arrived in Middle East
WASHINGTON — In a rare announcement, the US military said a guided missile submarine has arrived in the Middle East, a message of deterrence clearly directed at regional adversaries as the Biden administration tries to avoid a broader conflict amid the Israel-Hamas war.US Central Command said on social media Sunday that an Ohio-class submarine was entering its area of responsibility. A picture posted with the announcement appeared to show the sub in the Suez Canal northeast of Cairo.The social media post did not name the sub, but the US Navy has four Ohio-class guided missile submarines, or SSGNs, which are former ballistic missile subs converted to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles rather than nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.Each SSGN can carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, 50% more than...
November 06, 2023

US says guided missile sub has arrived in Middle East

US Secretary of State Blinken with King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Al Hussein on the Israel-Hamas conflict and our work to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.
Abbas decries Gaza genocide as Israel rules out ceasefire
RAMALLAH — President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has denounced the "genocide" carried out in the Gaza Strip by Israel.Abbas was speaking during a meeting with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken."Once again, we meet in the harshest conditions possible, I have no words to describe the war of genocide and the destruction suffered by our Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of the military apparatus of Israel, without any respect for the principles of international law,” Abbas said in Ramallah, where he received the American official.The meeting comes at a time when the international community fears that the war between Israel and Hamas could extend to the West Bank and beyond.This is the first time that the American Secretary of State has...
November 06, 2023

Abbas decries Gaza genocide as Israel rules out ceasefire

WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain. — courtesy WFP
WFP appeals for urgent expanded access to Gaza as food supplies ‘dangerously low’
GAZA — The head of UN’s emergency food relief agency on Sunday issued an urgent appeal from the Rafah border crossing for safe, expanded humanitarian access to Gaza as critical food supplies in the ravaged enclave reach dangerously low levels.“Right now, parents in Gaza do not know whether they can feed their children today and whether they will even survive to see tomorrow. The suffering just meters away is unfathomable standing on this side of the border,” said Cindy McCain, executive director of the UN World Food Program (WFP).“Today, I’m making an urgent plea for the millions of people whose lives are being torn apart by this crisis,” she added.For the past few weeks, entry points into Gaza have been virtually sealed except through the Rafah border crossing point. While...
November 05, 2023

WFP appeals for urgent expanded access to Gaza as food supplies ‘dangerously low’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres. (file) — courtesy UN Photo/Mark Garten
Guterres ‘horrified’ by strike on ambulance convoy in Gaza
NEW YORK — UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “horrified” by a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Friday, reiterating his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire.“I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al Shifa hospital. The images of bodies strewn on the street outside the hospital are harrowing,” the UN chief said in a statement, issued late on Friday New York time.He stated that he did not forget the terror attacks committed in Israel by Hamas and the killing, maiming and abductions, including of women and children. He stressed that all hostages held in Gaza must be released immediately and unconditionally.Guterres added that for nearly one month, civilians in Gaza, including children and...
November 04, 2023

Guterres ‘horrified’ by strike on ambulance convoy in Gaza

Families seek refuge from the ongoing conflict in Gaza at an UNRWA school. — courtesy UNICEF/Eyad El Baba
Humanitarian ceasefires critical to meet immense needs in Gaza
NEW YORK — Political negotiations to get aid into Gaza have yielded results but much more is needed, including humanitarian ceasefires to ensure safe delivery of food, fuel and other essentials, senior UN officials said on Friday in a briefing to Member States in New York.Their humanitarian update opened with a moment of silence for all those who have lost their lives since the start of the conflict on Oct. 7, and for the 240 Israeli men, women and children still being held hostage by Hamas.“What we've seen unfold over the last 26 days in Israel and in the Occupied Territories is nothing short of what I think I would call a blight on our collective conscience,” said UN Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths, fresh from the region. “All of us, we are all somehow involved in...
November 04, 2023

Humanitarian ceasefires critical to meet immense needs in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised speech on November 3.
Netanyahu rejects calls for temporary ceasefire
JERUSALEM — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a temporary ceasefire in the conflict with Hamas.Speaking during a televised address, Netanyahu said he would not agree to such a move until the hostages Hamas took during its attack on Israel on 7 October were released.He was speaking moments after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated calls for "humanitarian pauses" in the conflict to allow for more aid into Gaza. Blinken also said such pauses could create a "better environment in which hostages can be released".Blinken said the details of how the pauses would work were being "ironed out" and that Israel had "legitimate questions" about how they would work.But Netanyahu said: "Israel refuses a...
November 03, 2023

Netanyahu rejects calls for temporary ceasefire

Composite image showing family album photos of Palestinians killed in the bombings in Gaza
A doctor, tailor, and bride-to-be: Stories of those killed in Gaza
GAZA — The death toll in Gaza is rising as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas, following the attacks on 7 October in which 1,400 people were killed in Israel.The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the war began.Because of safety concerns, there are relatively few journalists in Gaza to document the human cost of the fighting.But the BBC has been speaking to a number of families and eyewitnesses who have told us stories of loved ones who have been killed in recent days.Yusof Abu MousaWith serious power supply issues in the Gaza Strip, Yusof and his two older siblings -- sister Jury, 13, and nine-year-old brother Hamed -- felt quite lucky.Their father, Mohamed Abu Musa, a radiographer at the Nasser hospital in the city of Khan...
November 03, 2023

A doctor, tailor, and bride-to-be: Stories of those killed in Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he disembarks from an aircraft for the start of his visit to Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on November 3, 2023. Blinken arrived in Israel on November 3, an AFP correspondent travelling with him said, in a trip focused on measures to minimise harm to civilians in the war in Gaza. (Photo by JONATHAN ERNST / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Blinken lands in Israel amid growing international outcry over mounting civilian death toll
TEL AVIV — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel Friday to press the Israeli government on its ongoing offensive in Gaza amid growing international condemnation and a steadily mounting civilian death toll.The top US diplomat, who traveled twice to Israel last month in the wake of the deadly Hamas attack, will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials as the US government continues to attempt balancing support for Israel’s defense with an increasingly public call for them to protect civilians.Blinken touched down in Tel Aviv on Friday morning, accompanied by newly confirmed US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew.In remarks to the press before departing Washington, DC, Thursday, Blinken said he planned to talk to the Israeli government about “the...
November 03, 2023

Blinken lands in Israel amid growing international outcry over mounting civilian death toll

Germany is trying to crack down on soaring numbers of illegal migrants
Germany's migrant row deepens as iIllegal arrivals soar
BERLIN — Armed police officers wave cars off the motorway going from Poland to Germany.They're searching for people-smugglers and their desperate cargo.This is the German government's latest bid to show it is getting a grip on rising levels of irregular migration.But, as we found in a rural border district, there's little sense of control.Altenberg is a small town in Saxony, right by the Czech Republic.Families race down a toboggan run that weaves through the forest and, when winter's here, there's even a small ski resort.The local mayor, Markus Wiesenberg, says that -- in this area alone -- smugglers drop off people as often as once a day."The trafficker disappears and probably picks up the next load."New arrivals put a strain on local services, he says, as...
November 03, 2023

Germany's migrant row deepens as iIllegal arrivals soar

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