Worried families crowded the halls and spilled out of rooms in Gaza’s hospitals on Tuesday, as patients wounded at a border protest awaited treatment for injuries suffered on Monday, the deadliest day for Palestinians in years.
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The Damage Done in Jerusalem
When President Donald J. Trump announced in December 2017 that he was moving the U.S.
Read More »Vitamin D3 boost helps treat child malnutrition
Results of Pakistan trial are ‘a first’, showing benefit of high doses given over regularly prescribed treatment.
Read More »Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza as thousands turn out for funerals
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian near the Gaza-Israel border on Tuesday after thousands of Palestinians turned out for the funerals of dozens of protesters killed by Israeli troops a day earlier, local health officials said.
Read More »Turkey end French studies in response to call for Koran reform
Turkey says it is phasing out French studies in its universities because of a controversial manifesto published in a French newspaper.
Read More »Macron to call Netanyahu after condemning Gaza killings
French President Emmanuel Macron was to phone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday after telling Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas he condemned Israeli troops’s firing on protests on the Gaza border.
Read More »Tánaiste summons Israeli ambassador to morning meeting following Gaza ‘massacre’
The Israeli ambassador to Ireland was summoned to a meeting by the Government in the wake of the violence and death along the Gaza border.
Read More »‘Outrage and sorrow’ – UN security council to discuss Gaza as at least 58 killed in day of violence
THE UN Security Council plans to meet today to discuss violence along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, following the deadliest day there since a 2014 war.
Read More »Israeli forces kill at least 58 people and injure 2,700 in Gaza ‘massacre’
Israeli troops shot dead dozens of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border on Monday when the high-profile opening of the U.S. embassy to Israel in Jerusalem by the Trump administration raised tension to boiling point after weeks of demonstrations.
Read More »Reaction: Coveney dismayed by ‘disproportionate’ use of force and calls for UN inquiry
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney expressed dismay at the use of “disproportionate” force by Israeli forces against Palestinian protesters and called for a UN probe into the violence.
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