The administration of US President Joe Biden has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation”, according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has arrived in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to take part in an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) with the issue of Palestine on the agenda.
An increasing number of Israelis say the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should immediately begin negotiations with Hamas for the release of hostages held in Gaza – but should continue fighting while negotiating, a new survey suggested. More than 11,000 Palestinians have died in Israel’s strikes on Gaza so far.
Israel’s military has closed in on the front gates of Gaza’s biggest hospital, where thousands of injured and displaced people are trapped amid intensive Israeli bombardment.
Palestinian group Hamas and Israel are negotiating two proposals for the release of captives in the Gaza Strip with one said to involve a small number of civilians and another that could involve some 100 of those being held, The New York Times has reported.
Russia’s victory in the conflict with Ukraine would affect NATO’s security as well, the US-led bloc’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has stated. NATO will continue to support Kiev with weapons and ammunition to avoid such a “dangerous” outcome, he stressed.
Ukraine will not stop fighting Russia until it takes back all the territories it considers its own, President Vlodymyr Zelensky told Reuters in an interview. Withdrawal of US support would hardly affect Kiev’s policies in this regard, he added.
Three Palestinian human rights groups have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel’s war crimes, including genocide, against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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 1,400 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 11,000 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.
21 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are out of service now. The Israeli military has bombed and shelled the grounds of several medical facilities in northern Gaza, while tanks have surrounded at least four health facilities where thousands of people have taken shelter.
The Arab League has demanded a “complete ceasefire” in Gaza, according to a statement by the Arab League. Islamic states are set to hold a summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday.
The spokesperson of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described life in northern Gaza as "hell on earth" as Israel deepens its blockade and bombardment.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has described the situation in Gaza as “a never-ending humanitarian nightmare for civilians” as he once again reiterated calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has slammed Israeli discussion of the future of Gaza as an attempt by the Israeli regime to extend its military presence there.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is going to travel to Saudi Arabia on Saturday to participate in the emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as Tehran steps up its efforts to end the Israeli war on Gaza.
Israel’s war could set the Palestinian economy in Gaza and the West Bank back decades, according to a new analysis by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
A new survey shows a deep divide within the US Democratic Party on President Joe Biden’s response to the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The European Union promise of negotiations with Ukraine on eventual membership in the bloc is a shallow ruse, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed, using a ‘dangling carrot’ metaphor.
Israel has attacked three hospitals in Gaza, including the enclave’s biggest medical complex, resulting in what appears to be multiple casualties, the Health Ministry in the besieged territory has confirmed.
Mohammad Eslami, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), on Thursday wrote a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general, demanding the UN nuclear watchdog to inform the United Nations Security Council about dangers of possible use of nuclear weapons by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Heavy downpours in Iran have triggered floods in 13 provinces, which has so far left 2 people killed and another missing, the head of the country’s relief and rescue organization says.