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The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has taken to X to plead with Israel not to proceed with its planned invasion of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

The United Nations has voiced concerns regarding the police treatment of pro-Palestine protesters at US universities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on  Tuesday the army will invade Rafah in southern Gaza Strip despite reports of a possible cease-fire deal with the Palestinian group Hamas.

The Palestinian Civil Defense service on Tuesday reported more than 10,000 people are still missing under the rubble across the Gaza Strip almost seven months into the Israeli military onslaught against the besieged enclave.

Officials from Rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas have held a meeting in China for talks on potential reconciliation.

Dozens of faith, civil rights and progressive groups in the United States have expressed solidarity with university students protesting against US support for Israel amid the war on the Gaza Strip which has so far killed over 34,500.

American lawmakers are in the process of drafting a bill aimed at responding to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in case it decides to issue arrest warrants against high-ranking Israeli officials accused of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian death toll from Israel's military onslaught against the besieged Gaza Strip has jumped to 34,535 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave announced on Tuesday.

More than 90 lawyers, including at least 20 from the presidential administration, called on US President Joe Biden to stop military aid to Israel because of its actions in the Gaza Strip, which they say contradict US and international humanitarian law, Politico has reported.

Thousands of Israelis, including families of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, rallied in Tel Aviv to demand that the government reach a prisoner swap deal with the Hamas group. The Israeli police have arrested at least 5 protesters during the rally.

Columbia University in the US has started suspending the students who refuse to leave the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, hours after the deadline to leave the encampment passed.

Yemen’s Houthi fighters say they have hit two US warships among others in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are enduring a genocidal war by Israel.

Washington has found five Israeli units guilty of gross human rights violations, the State Department announced on Monday.

A vast majority of Americans back Israel's planned military operation against Rafah, the densely-populated city in besieged Gaza Strip, according to a new survey. At least 34,500 people, mainly children and women, have been killed in the blockaded territory since October 2023.

Several European member states are expected to recognize Palestinian statehood by the end of May, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stated on Monday at the sidelines of a World Economic Forum special meeting in Riyadh.

The cultural and artistic conference of Persian Gulf National Day was held at the Azadi Tower cultural complex in Tehran on Monday morning (April 29, 2024) with Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammed Mahdi Esmaeili and a group of artists in attendance.

The number and frequency of Ukrainian troops receiving training in US bases in Western Europe has dropped to almost zero in the last months, suggesting that Kiev is running out of men to fight Russian forces, US officials have told the Washington Post.

Tel Aviv has launched a major campaign to prevent the International Criminal Court (ICC) from issuing arrest warrants for top Israeli officials over war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that if the US had the will to secure a truce in the Gaza Strip, it could have stopped the shipment of weapons and ammunition to Israel and cut off its financial and political support for the regime.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has insisted that member states of the bloc don’t want their citizens to die in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but that the bloc will keep supporting Kiev with military and financial aid.

The Russian Army has continued their push further westward from Donetsk, forcing Ukrainian units to pull back from three more villages under heavy attacks by multiple brigades, Kiev’s top general has conceded.

At least 900 protesters have been detained since the launch of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on university campuses across the US, where students are raging against the Israeli regime’s US-backed genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The latest US aid package for Kiev, which was only approved by the US Congress after more than six months of partisan feuding, might be small potatoes compared to what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has in mind for his biggest benefactor.

The Suez Canal revenue has fallen 50% amid growing tension in the Red Sea, Egypt’s planning minister has announced.

At least 17,000 children in the besieged coastal enclave are unaccompanied or separated from their families, according to the United Nations agency for the Palestinian refugees.