Israel using aid blockade as a weapon of war, UN court told

Israel was yesterday accused of using its aid blockade on Gaza as a &weapon of war&, as a week of hearings over its humanitarian obligations began in The Hague.

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US airstrike on migrant centre in Yemen kills at least 68 people

Corpses covered in dust and debris were scattered in the wreckage of a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen, after what Houthi-controlled television described yesterday as a US airstrike that killed 68 people.

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Iranian leaders call for answers after port explosion which killed 40 people, injured more than 1,000 others

Iran&s president and supreme leader have told officials they must find out why an explosion rocked one of the Islamic Republic&s main ports, killing 40 people.

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Hundreds of thousands facing hunger in Gaza as food runs out

The World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out under Israel&s nearly eight-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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At least 50 Palestinians killed in series of Israeli air strikes across Gaza Strip

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 50 people, many of them women and children, the territory&s health ministry said yesterday.

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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill displaced families sheltering at police station and school

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory's Hamas-run Health Ministry.

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