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More Gazans, including children, die from starvation amid Israeli blockade

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Six more Palestinians, including two children, died of starvation in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours amid an Israeli siege on the Palestinian enclave, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday.
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At least 18,500 Israeli soldiers injured since outbreak of Gaza war: Report

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At least 18,500 Israeli soldiers and police forces have been injured since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, local media reported Sunday.
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Israel announces ‘tactical suspension’ of military operations in three parts of Gaza

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A so-called “tactical and localized suspension of military operations” announced by Israel became effective on Sunday morning in select areas of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has announced.
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Hamas didn’t steal UN aid in Gaza: Israeli officers

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Two senior Israeli army officers have told The New York Times there is no evidence that Hamas looted United Nations humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, undermining a central Israeli justification for severely restricting food deliveries to over two million people and driving the population towards famine.
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Israeli military claims it allowed limited aid airdrop into Gaza amid genocide

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The Israeli army claimed Saturday that it allowed a limited aid airdrop into the war-torn Gaza Strip.
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Israel’s Gaza aid drops are ‘a smokescreen’: UN

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Israel airdropping food will do little to help starving Gazans, Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), has announced.
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Syria, Israel hold talks over conflict in Suwayda

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Syrian and Israeli officials have held negotiations in Paris mediated by the United States, according to a Syrian official, in the wake of an eruption of sectarian violence compounded by Israeli military intervention in southern Syria.
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Israel to start humanitarian pause in Gaza early Sunday: Report

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Tel Aviv will implement a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip beginning early Sunday until the evening, Israeli media reported late Saturday.
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Hamas dismisses Trump remarks on Gaza talks breakdown

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Hamas officials have expressed surprise at US President Donald Trump's accusation that the Palestinian group "didn't really want" a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip.
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US military claims killed senior Daesh leader in Syria

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The U.S. military carried out a raid in northwestern Syria on Friday, killing a senior Daesh leader and two of his sons in the Aleppo area, according to the United States Central Command (Centcom).
Europe

Dozens of UK MPs urge PM to recognize Palestine

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One third of the UK House of Commons has called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to officially recognize Palestine, as pressure mounts on Israel to allow food and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip.
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European countries urge end to Gaza ‘humanitarian catastrophe’

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Britain, France and Germany on Friday called for an end to Gaza's "humanitarian catastrophe" as the UN food agency warned almost a third of people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory were not eating for days.
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Ayatollah Sistani urges Islamic world to act against humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called on the Islamic world and the international community to break their silence and act urgently to end the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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Hamas will be ‘hunted down’ as Gaza ceasefire negotiations wane: Trump

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United States President Donald Trump has suggested that Hamas is refusing to agree to a Gaza truce because it fears what comes after all the Israeli hostages are released.
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Almost a third of Gazans ‘not eating for days’: UN

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Almost a third of people in the Gaza Strip are "not eating for days", the United Nations food aid agency told AFP on Friday, adding the crisis has reached "new and astonishing levels of desperation".
Europe

Macron says France to recognize Palestine

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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that Paris will recognize Palestine as a state in pursuit of what he called a “historic commitment to a just and lasting peace” in the region.
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More Gazans die of starvation as famine worsens: Health Ministry

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Two more Palestinians have died of starvation and malnutrition in the besieged Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the enclave announced on Thursday.
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Iran’s senior cleric urges Pope to speak out against Gaza crimes

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In a letter addressed to the Pope, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani called on the leader of the world’s Catholics to take a firm moral stance against the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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ISL may be responsible for atrocities against Druze, not Syrian forces: US envoy

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US envoy Tom Barrack has suggested that Syrian government forces were not responsible for atrocities committed against the Druze community in southern Syria, and that the armed fighters who carried out the attacks may have been Islamic State militants disguised in government uniforms.
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OIC calls on UN Security Council to act on Gaza

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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is currently chaired by Turkey, called Wednesday on the UN Security Council to immediately act to end the suffering in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas says submitted response to Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators

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Hamas announced early Thursday that it submitted its response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal.
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Israel’s parliament approves ‘symbolic motion’ on West Bank annexation

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Israel’s parliament has approved a "symbolic measure' calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank.
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Finance minister says Israel has US ‘greenlight’ to turn Gaza into ‘resort town’

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The US has given Israel the green light to transform the Gaza Strip into a “resort town” after relocating Palestinians, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said.
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Columbia University suspends, expels dozens of students over Gaza protests

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Columbia University in the United States has imposed severe punishments, including expulsion, suspension from courses and revocation of academic degrees, on dozens of students who participated in demonstrations against Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
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Over 100 aid groups warn ‘mass starvation’ spreading across Gaza

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More than 100 aid organisations have warned that "mass starvation" was spreading across the Gaza Strip and that their own colleagues were suffering acutely from the shortages.
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