Middle East

Ex-Iran envoy to Lebanon: Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza to open up more fronts against Tel Aviv

Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon says a ground incursion into Gaza by Israel will increase the likelihood of other resistance groups entering the region to defend Palestinians.

Ayatollah Khamenei says Palestinian movement headed for complete victory

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the movement that has begun in Palestine will continue and lead to the complete victory of the Palestinian people.

UN warns situation in Gaza “matter of life and death”

The United Nations has described the situation in the Gaza Strip as a matter of “life and death", warning that the clean water supply for the 2 million people there is running dangerously low. The world body also cautioned of increasing risks of waterborne diseases.

Iran’s FM: US accomplice in Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza

Iran’s foreign minister says the United States has practically got involved in the Israeli war on civilians as Washington has been sending weapons and offering unflinching support to Tel Aviv.

Israel’s order to evacuate 1.1 million Gazans outrageous, defies rules of war and basic humanity: UN

The Israeli order to evacuate 1.1 million people from northern Gaza defies the rules of war and basic humanity, United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths stated on Saturday.

Hamas says Israeli military killed dozens, injured hundreds of evacuees after warning to relocate

Hamas's media office has told CNN that the Israeli military airstrikes have killed 70 and injured 200 evacuees in the Gaza Strip after Israel issued a warning to 1.1 million people to move south on Friday.

Israel’s Gaza clearance plan a humanitarian crisis: EU

The European Union’s foreign policy chief has warned that the Israeli military’s order for more than one million Palestinians to leave northern Gaza in a day was “utterly impossible to implement”.

Sources say Saudi Arabia puts normalization with Israel on ice

Saudi Arabia has reportedly reconsidered its foreign policy priorities amid the Israeli onslaught against the besieged Gaza Strip by postponing a US-brokered normalization deal with Tel Aviv and getting closer to Iran.

WHO warns Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘death sentence’ for patients

Israel’s evacuation order for Gazans amounts to a “death sentence” for vulnerable hospital patients, the World Health Organization has warned.

Tens of thousands of Gazans fled since Israel’s evacuation warning

Tens of thousands of people left their homes in Gaza after Israel's military warned over one million people living north of Wadi Gaza to move south, according to a statement by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Saturday.

Situation in Gaza has reached a dangerous new low: UN chief

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has stated that the situation in the Gaza Strip has reached a dangerous new low after Israel warned 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza to flee south following days of near-constant air raids on the embattled territory.

Israel targeted medical personnel during humanitarian missions: Palestine

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says the Israeli army has targeted and killed medical and ambulance personnel during their humanitarian missions to evacuate the “victims of aggression.”

Turkey’s Erdogan lashes out at US over dispatching carrier to ME

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit out at the United States for exacerbating tensions between Israel and Palestine by sending an aircraft carrier to the region and using sectarian language.

Israel-Palestine conflict: Gaza death toll at 2,200 as residents flee

Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,300 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 2,200 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

Israeli soldiers kill several Palestinians in West Bank

At least 16 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, taking the death toll to nearly 50 since Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry announced, as protests continue against Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Journalist killed, several injured in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon

At least one journalist has been killed and several others were wounded in a shelling attack by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, according to witnesses and reporters at the scene.

Iranian FM: US giving Israel a chance to destroy Gaza, new fronts likely to open

The Iranian foreign minister has warned “the unlimited US support for Israel’s ongoing crimes” in Gaza will further exacerbate the situation, adding there are concerns that the war will spill over in the region and new fronts will open.

Israel’s “collective punishment” of Gazans amounts to war crime: Amnesty

Human rights group Amnesty International on Friday urged Israel to immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the collective punishment of civilians for Hamas's military operation amounts to a war crime.

Hamas: Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza Strip

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, says Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza, stressing that Western countries offering military aid to Israel are complicit in the killing of Palestinians instead of seeking a resolution to the conflict and occupation.

West Bank and East Jerusalem death toll rises to 36: Palestinian health ministry

At least 36 people have died, and more than 650 have been injured, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah has announced.

Israel tells more than 1mn Palestinians to move to southern Gaza

The Israeli military has told over 1 million Gaza residents to leave their homes in Gaza City and urgently relocate to the south, in a move the UN has warned would cause “devastating humanitarian consequences".

Human Rights Watch verifies Israeli use of white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has confirmed the use of white phosphorus by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

WHO warns Gaza hospitals at ‘breaking point’ as death toll tops 1,500

The World Health Organization has called for immediate humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, cautioning Israel’s blockade and bombardment of Gaza have left the coastal enclave’s health system at a “breaking point”.

Iran FM warns of expansion of Gaza war, does not rule out new front against Israel

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned if the Israeli regime continues its “war crimes” against Palestinians, resistance factions in the region will open up new fronts against the occupying regime.

Iranian, Syrian presidents urge global solidarity to support Palestine

In a telephone conversation between Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a strong and urgent message emerged with both urging prompt world action to help Palestinians particularly Gazans.

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