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Medical evacuation of Syria’s Eastern Ghouta begins: ICRC

Aid workers have begun evacuating emergency medical cases from Syria’s besieged rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday, after months of waiting during which the UN said at least 16 people had died. “Tonight the @SYRedCrescent with @ICRC team started the evacuation of critical medical cases from #EasternGhouta to #Damascus,” the ICRC said on its verified Twitter account. Pictures posted with the tweets […]

27 December 2017

International News

Pressure mounts on Israel, PA over mass prison hunger strike

The National Committee to Support Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to suspend municipal elections scheduled to be held Saturday and to halt its contested security coordination with Israel as some 1,600 Palestinians entered their 22nd day on hunger strike in Israeli prisons on Monday. While the elections process has continued to move forward, a number of Palestinian political factions had already boycotted the elections, […]

9 May 2017

International News

Palestinian prisoners begin refusing water

A number of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in solitary confinement began refusing water on Wednesday, as more than 1,500 Palestinians entered the 10th day of the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike. According to the Media Committee for Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike -- a joint committee formed by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs -- said that a number of prisoners being held in […]

27 April 2017

ICRC

Medical evacuation of Syria’s Eastern Ghouta begins: ICRC

Pressure mounts on Israel, PA over mass prison hunger strike

Palestinian prisoners begin refusing water

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