Speaking to a virtual press briefing from Rafah, Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, said 1.5 million people crammed into the city with nowhere safe to go, sparking a new wave of displacement and additional injuries. That could have "dire consequences" on...
Many, pushed from Arab villages just across the armistice line, ended up in Gaza, where today three-fourths of all residents are refugees or their descendants. Israeli leaders moved to solidify control by establishing communities along the border with the narrow strip, then occupied by Egypt. ...
During World War II, he was a senior officer in the Allied Military Government of occupied Italy. Died in Marco Island, Collier County, Fla., August 7, 2002 (age 99 years, 36 days). Interment at Calkins Cemetery, Elizabethtown, N.Y. Relatives: Married to Jean Knox Ellis. The Charles...
With this article we continue our series on Israel, Palestine, and the biblical understanding of "the land." The first installment in the series, Gerald McDermott's "The Land: Evangelicals and Israel," appeared in the March/April 2003 issue. Afew years ago on a research visit to Jerusalem...
Israel's COGAT, a branch of the country's defence ministry, in a statement denied that it had asked the WHO to evacuate warehouses and said it made that clear to U.N. representatives. It did not elaborate. Shannon Barkley of the WHO's team in occupied Palestin...
Its Moldovan-born leader, Lieberman, is a former defence minister who seeks to out-hawk Netanyahu. His policies include swapping Arab towns inside Israel - home to the country's 21 percent Arab Palestinian minority - in return for ceding territory in the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
Analysis: Israel cracking down on peace activists who have taken up residence in the occupied territories to support PalestiniansMICHELE NORRIS
7 Arabs living in the occupied territories are ineligible for citizenship, and more than one thousand who have been defined as security risks have been deported.8 The two hundred thousand Palestinian refugees of the 1967 war have not yet been allowed to return to the territories. According to ...
Region of the Americas 75 712 confirmed (14 878) 1065 deaths (252) African Region 1937 confirmed (275) 31 deaths (2) WHO风险评估 全球 非常高 图1 截至2020年3月26日报告COVID-19确诊病例的国家、领地和地区 下行图注: 数据来源:WHO,中国卫生健康委员会 ...
Hamas has been locked in a war with Israel for almost a year since its 7 October attacks. It has praised the Iranian military for firing missiles at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, saying the strikes were "heroic" for responding to the deaths of three men in par