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Armenia recognises Palestine as a state: Foreign Ministry

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Palestine Red Crescent Society evacuates casualties, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, June 16, 2024.
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Armenia announced on June 21 its recognition of the State of Palestine, the latest country to do so during the war in Gaza, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“Armenia supports a U.N. resolution on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and is in favour of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” the same statement said.

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“Based on the above and confirming its commitment to international law, equality of nations, sovereignty and peaceful coexistence, the Republic of Armenia recognises the State of Palestine,” Yerevan said.

Israel’s war in Gaza since the October 7 attack has revived a global push for Palestinians to be given a state of their own.

The other countries who recognised a state of Palestine are Norway, Spain and Ireland, breaking with the long-held view of Western powers that Palestinians can only gain statehood as part of a negotiated peace with Israel.

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“Dozens Killed” In New Gaza Refugee Camp Strike, Says Hamas

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Rescuers said “whole families” were killed on Wednesday. (File)

Palestinian Territories, Gaza:

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said a second Israeli bombing raid in two days had killed and wounded “dozens” Wednesday at the territory’s biggest refugee camp, Jabalia.

It said there were “dozens of martyrs and injured in a bombing by the occupation planes”, a day after Israel acknowledged the first strikes, saying they targeted a top Hamas commander.

Images obtained by AFP showed major damage and rescuers said “whole families” were killed Wednesday, but casualty details could not be immediately confirmed.

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Israel’s “Most Intense” Strikes On Gaza, Hamas Says Fired Rockets: 10 Facts

admin — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:30:58 +0000

Intense Israeli strikes rocked the northern Gaza Strip on Friday evening. (File)

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Israel launched massive strikes across northern Gaza tonight, which reports said were the most intense since the start of the war on October 7. Hamas said internet has been snapped in the Gaza Strip. Reports said contact with Gaza is lost.

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The Israeli military told news agency AFP it is “continuously striking in the Gaza Strip” against the Hamas group that rules the Palestinian territory.
Hamas accused Israel of cutting off internet and most communications “to perpetrate massacres with bloody retaliatory strikes from the air, land and sea,” as heavy strikes hit northern Gaza.
Rocket warning sirens blared in several cities in Israel while the airstrikes in northern Gaza were going on. Central Tel Aviv was targetted in the rocket attacks today.
Hamas said it launched several rockets on Israel today. They had fired nearly 5,000 rockets on the October 7 terror attack that killed over 1,300 people in Israel.
The UN chief warned today that Gaza faces “an unprecedented avalanche of human suffering” due to lack of food, water and power. “I repeat my call for a humanitarian ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the delivery of life-saving supplies,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
The Israeli army accused Hamas of abusing hospitals in the Gaza Strip for military purposes. The allegation was swiftly denied by Hamas, and the main United Nations agency working in Gaza said earlier it had mechanisms in place to prevent aid being diverted.
“Hamas wages war from hospitals” in Gaza, military spokesman Daniel Hagari told journalists, adding that Hamas was also using fuel stored in hospitals to help carry out its operations.
Mr Hagari specifically identified Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, as one from which Hamas men were operating. “Terrorists move freely” in Shifa and other hospitals, he said.
“Hamas-ISIS is sick. They turn hospitals into headquarters for their terror. We just released intelligence proving it,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, showing a video claiming how Hamas has been using Gaza’s largest hospital for military purpose.
A senior member of the Hamas political bureau, Izzat al-Rishq, swiftly fired back at the allegations from the Israeli army, calling them unfounded. “There’s no basis in truth in what the spokesman of the enemy army stated,” Mr Rishq said, accusing Israel of making up the allegations to “pave the way for a new massacre to be committed against our people”.

With inputs from AFP