The Hamas-run government media office on Saturday called on the United Nations Security Council to “convene immediately” following threats from Israel over a possible invasion into Rafah, a city in the south of the Gaza strip close to the Egyptian border.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told Najib Mikati, the prime minister of the Lebanese caretaker government, in Beirut on Saturday that the people of Gaza have the right to make decisions about the future of the besieged strip.
The leaders of the resistance groups have expressed their gratitude to Iran for supporting the people of Palestine, saying the situation is in favor of resistance and certain signs of victory for the Palestinian nation have emerged.
The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, in a meeting with Iran's foreign minister, stated he is confident that the Palestinian nation and resistance factions will eventually emerge victorious and that Israel will suffer a humiliating defeat in the Gaza Strip.
Spokesperson for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) James Elder has told Al Jazeera the besieged Gaza Strip has the worst levels of malnutrition of any place in the world.
Israel has not even come close to defeating Palestinian movement Hamas through its military offensive on the Gaza Strip, US intelligence officials have stated.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the Israeli military to plan for the “evacuation of the population” from Rafah, his office announced in a statement on Friday, ahead of an anticipated ground assault on the southern Gaza city. Around 28,000 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israel's offensive against Gaza.
An Israeli undercover operation on a hospital in the occupied West Bank last month may amount to a war crime, five United Nations special rapporteurs have stated.
Israel’s war in Gaza – and Washington’s support for it -- is inflicting serious damage on US standing across the Arab world, according to the poll results conducted in 16 Arab countries and released by the research institute, Arab Center Washington DC.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the incessant Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza is a tragedy for all humanity.
The Israeli government and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu want in every possible way to “mislead domestic public opinion and prolong the aggression” against Gaza, a member of the Palestinian group Hamas’s politburo has stated.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has lashed out at the US and its allies for their unwavering support for Israel, saying they are obstructing democracy by preventing Palestinians from determining their future.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is entering into an “age of chaos” as the UN Security Council remains sharply divided over Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shot down a Hamas-proposed plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, telling reporters that “there is no other solution besides absolute victory” over the Palestinian movement.
The US carried out a drone strike in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday night that killed three members of the Kataib Hezbollah militia, including a senior commander. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has taken responsibility for the raid.
A group of US House lawmakers from both parties have called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to demand the resignation of the head of the United Nations and the chief of its Palestinian refugee agency following allegations that 12 employees participated in Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Hundreds of videos filmed and shared by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip show troops bulldozing houses and mocking Palestinian victims, according to research by the New York Times. More than 27,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza since early October last year.
The US Senate has blocked a $118 billion supplemental funding bill with aid for Ukraine and Israel, as well as immigration reforms and national security measures.
Retired US Marine General James Mattis was hired in 2015 to advise the United Arab Emirates about the Saudi-led war on Yemen, the Washington Post has reported. Mattis did not publicly disclose the gig when he became secretary of defense in 2017.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has stated the US-led military coalition, purportedly formed to fight the Daesh terrorist group, will eventually end its mission in the Arab country.
Palestinian Hamas movement has unveiled a three-phase ceasefire plan in the Gaza Strip, including a complete withdrawal of Israeli soldiers, reconstruction of the infrastructure of the besieged enclave and the exchange of hostages and bodies of the dead, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing the draft document.
Head of the United Nations political mission in Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert has told the UN Security Council she expects to step down at the end of May, adding the Arab country was “on a knife edge”.
The Israeli military has concluded that over one fifth of the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza are dead, according to a report by the New York Times daily.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has poured cold water on claims it was prepared to normalise relations with Israel before a ceasefire is brokered in the Gaza Strip and without progress toward Palestinian statehood.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has received the first ambassador to have been sent by the United Arab Emirates to Damascus in more than a decade since the breakout of the war in the country.
