War Archives - NEPS News https://nepsnews.in/category/war/ Independent Online News Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:25:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://nepsnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-09-at-13.03.36-1-32x32.jpeg War Archives - NEPS News https://nepsnews.in/category/war/ 32 32 Gaza facing famine if fighting continues, UN says https://nepsnews.in/2023/12/25/gaza-facing-famine-if-fighting-continues-un-says/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/12/25/gaza-facing-famine-if-fighting-continues-un-says/#respond Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:25:28 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3662 By Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News

The United Nations says Gaza is at risk of famine if the war between Israel and Hamas continues.

A quarter of households – roughly 500,000 people – are facing “catastrophic conditions”, a UN food security agency found.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/12/25/gaza-facing-famine-if-fighting-continues-un-says/feed/ 0 Ukraine war: Zelensky says Israel-Gaza conflict taking focus away from fighting https://nepsnews.in/2023/11/05/ukraine-war-zelensky-says-israel-gaza-conflict-taking-focus-away-from-fighting/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/11/05/ukraine-war-zelensky-says-israel-gaza-conflict-taking-focus-away-from-fighting/#respond Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:24:12 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3516 By Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News

The Israel-Gaza war is “taking away the focus” from the conflict in Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.

He said this was “one of the goals” of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/11/05/ukraine-war-zelensky-says-israel-gaza-conflict-taking-focus-away-from-fighting/feed/ 0 Rafah crossing: More Britons leave after nearly 100 listed as eligible https://nepsnews.in/2023/11/05/rafah-crossing-more-britons-leave-after-nearly-100-listed-as-eligible/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/11/05/rafah-crossing-more-britons-leave-after-nearly-100-listed-as-eligible/#respond Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:09:31 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3511 By Adam Durbin & Oliver Slow
BBC News

More British citizens have begun to leave the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian authorities listed nearly 100 as being eligible to cross to Egypt on Friday.

The UK section of the Palestinian border authority list names more than 90 people as British nationals.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/11/05/rafah-crossing-more-britons-leave-after-nearly-100-listed-as-eligible/feed/ 0 Ukraine uses US-supplied ATACMS for the first time, says Zelensky https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/ukraine-uses-us-supplied-atacms-for-the-first-time-says-zelensky/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/ukraine-uses-us-supplied-atacms-for-the-first-time-says-zelensky/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:10:05 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3503
By Robert Greenall & Chris Partridge, weapons analyst
BBC News

Ukraine has used US-supplied long-range missiles for the first time, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

His comments follow reports the weapons, known as ATACMS, destroyed nine helicopters at Russian bases in the east of the country.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/ukraine-uses-us-supplied-atacms-for-the-first-time-says-zelensky/feed/ 0 The danger of leaving things be: how the world ‘failed miserably’ in the Middle East https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/the-danger-of-leaving-things-be-how-the-world-failed-miserably-in-the-middle-east/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/the-danger-of-leaving-things-be-how-the-world-failed-miserably-in-the-middle-east/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 02:52:02 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3497 Amid Israel’s turn to the right and the resurgence of armed groups in the Palestinian territories, recent horrific events highlight the dangers of diplomatic inaction

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Joe Biden’s high-stakes visit to the Middle East to avert an all-out war raises serious questions about the level and nature of the president’s previous engagement in the region.… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/the-danger-of-leaving-things-be-how-the-world-failed-miserably-in-the-middle-east/feed/ 0 ‘They believed it was safe’: death toll rising after blast at Gaza hospital https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/they-believed-it-was-safe-death-toll-rising-after-blast-at-gaza-hospital/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/they-believed-it-was-safe-death-toll-rising-after-blast-at-gaza-hospital/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 02:42:28 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3491 Health officials say blast killed hundreds as footage shows fire engulfing medical centre owned by Anglican church

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in a massive explosion at a crowded hospital in Gaza City, in the biggest single loss of life in the blockaded territory in all the five wars between Hamas and Israel since the militants took over the strip in 2007.… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/18/they-believed-it-was-safe-death-toll-rising-after-blast-at-gaza-hospital/feed/ 0 Gaza: Forcing patients to flee hospitals a ‘death sentence’ warns WHO https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/16/gaza-forcing-patients-to-flee-hospitals-a-death-sentence-warns-who-2/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/16/gaza-forcing-patients-to-flee-hospitals-a-death-sentence-warns-who-2/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2023 05:19:31 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3458 The UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) issued an urgent call on Saturday for Israeli Authorities to protect all civilians sheltering in Gaza.

The statement came as the Israeli-imposed deadline for some 1.1 million civilians to leave the northern part of the enclave, ahead of what is expected to be a major advance into Gaza by Israeli ground forces, expired.… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/16/gaza-forcing-patients-to-flee-hospitals-a-death-sentence-warns-who-2/feed/ 0 Blinken returning to Israel to try to limit death toll from an invasion of Gaza https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/16/blinken-returning-to-israel-to-try-to-limit-death-toll-from-an-invasion-of-gaza/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/10/16/blinken-returning-to-israel-to-try-to-limit-death-toll-from-an-invasion-of-gaza/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2023 04:31:17 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3443 US is concerned heavy Palestinian casualties caused by expected ground assault will provoke Iran and inflame wider tensions

Patrick Wintour, Ruth Michaelson and Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

A last-ditch attempt to reduce the impact of a potentially catastrophic all-out Israeli land assault on Gaza will be made by the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, amid fears that the already daunting Palestinian death toll will rise and provoke an intervention by Iran or its proxies.… Read the rest

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