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71 Palestinians killed, 182 injured by Israeli forces' indiscriminate bombings in last 24hrs in Gaza.

Shadia Ahmed panicked as rainwater flooded her shack one night, drenching her seven children. The next morning, the kids were seized by vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms. After an aid group administered tests for cholera in Ahmed’s Syrian refugee encampment in the northern Lebanese town of Bhanine, her youngest, 4-year-old Assil, tested positive. Cholera has…

Thousands of cholera cases have swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in recent weeks

Lebanon alone reports over 2,000 cases, 18 deaths since last month, as bacterial infection sweeps region

Thousands of cholera cases have swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in recent weeks

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SHARE Syrian health workers have expressed anger and astonishment after the World Health Organisation decided to elect Syria to its executive board, despite the Syrian government bombing health facilities as recently as March. Health workers interviewed by The National have survived Syrian air force attacks on hospitals, and lost colleagues during the decade-long conflict. The UN agencies continue to fail to do the right thing, which is to call the Assad regime what it is: criminal Raed Al Sal...

Syria receives its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility [EN/AR] Format From UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Ted Chaiban, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Ahmad Al-Mandhari, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Director of Country Support, Pascal Bijleveld AMMAN/CAIRO/GENEVA, 22 April 2021 – “Syria received 256,800 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVAX delivery of vaccines to reach the war-torn country. This ...