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UN: Flooded Gaza ‘disaster area’ with 4,000 Gazans evacuated from homes

 

United Nations Relief Works Agency calls northern Strip “disaster area” with reports of flood be two meter high in some places.

By REUTERS
 

 

GAZA – More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from flood-damaged homes in northern Gaza in what the United Nations has called “a disaster area”, officials said on Saturday.

 Palestinian civil defense members evacuate people from flooded houses in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Palestinian civil defense members evacuate people from flooded houses in the northern Gaza Strip. – Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Flooding has been so severe that access to many homes is by rowing boat and water is reported to be two meters (more than six feet) high in some places. Continue Reading »

Hezbollah Backed Paper Sabotages UN Investigation of Rafik Hariri Assassination

The newspaper’s leaks demonstrates the lengths to which opponents of the tribunal will go to undermine its mandate: to investigate who was behind the powerful car bomb that killed the former Lebanese PM, Rafik Hariri, and 22 others in 2005.

 

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The first shock came when a leading Lebanese newspaper published a confidential list of 17 witnesses who may testify in the murder trial of a former prime minister — showing their names, passport pictures, dates of birth and where they work.

A man shouted for help at the site of a blast that killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. - Photo by Mohamed Azakir-Reuters

A man shouted for help at the site of a blast that killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005.

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