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Uncertainty ahead for UN agency's students in West Bank camp

In the crowded Qalandia refugee camp, UNRWA's training centre is an island of calm where young people from the occupied West Bank master trades, but a recent Israeli ban on all cooperation with the UN agency has left the centre in limbo.On the spacious campus a stone's throw from the wall separating the West Bank and Israel, plumbers in training assemble pipes, future electricians wire circuits and carpenters hammer together roof frames.
Source: Al Monitor
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Israel pummels south Beirut as Lebanon mulls truce plan

Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah bastions in Beirut and south Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Lebanese officials said they were studying a US truce proposal.An Israeli strike on neighbouring Syria earlier this week killed two Islamic Jihad leaders, the Palestinian militant group, which has fought alongside Hamas in Gaza, confirmed.Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are all backed by Israel's arch-enemy Iran, which on Friday said it supported a swift end to the nearly two-month war in Lebanon.
Source: Al Monitor
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Gaza civil defence says 30 dead after Israeli air strike

Gaza's civil defence agency said 30 people were killed on Sunday, including children, and dozens were missing after an Israeli air strike hit a building in the Palestinian territory's north.Israel's army told AFP that it had conducted overnight strikes and hit "terrorist targets" in the area.After the strike early Sunday, 30 bodies were pulled from the rubble of the five-storey residential building in Beit Lahia, "including children and women", civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, updating a previous figure of 26.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Gaza civil defence says 30 dead after Israeli air strike