The number of humanitarian staff killed while on duty in the Gaza Strip has risen to 31, after an Israeli airstrike killed seven civil defense members on Monday, according to a statement from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in China to attend the Belt and Road Initiative conference and hold a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered that roughly 2,000 American troops prepare for a potential deployment to Israel to help with tasks like medical and logistical support, according to multiple defense officials.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has, in a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated that the “blind support" of Western countries, particularly the United States, for Israel has given the Zionists an incentive to intensify their crimes and continue genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Hamas is holding between at least 200 and 250 hostages captured in the attacks against Israel, according to Abu Odaida, the spokesperson of Hamas' military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has stated that Tehran is ready to cooperate with all states to use diplomatic capacities to stop Israel's atrocities against Palestinians in the 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 3,000 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.
Palestine’s government media office issued a statement, saying that since the beginning of the war, Israel has committed at least 371 massacres against Palestinian families, who have had their homes bombed while they were still inside, without warning.
Citing unnamed defence officials, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the US military has earmarked approximately 2,000 servicemembers for a potential deployment to Israel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its latest warning about the increasingly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, saying there were only 24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left in the enclave before a real catastrophe .
Tehran has warned of the adverse consequences of the Israeli regime’s inhumane actions against Palestinians in light of its atrocious military campaign against the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Zionist regime will be gone soon and the Palestinian nation will be victorious in the final battle to liberate Palestine, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has predicted.
The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said on Monday that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas made Israel suffer a “great defeat” in its recent operation dubbed Al-Aqsa Flood.
Moscow is grateful to Beijing for its proposals on ways to end the Ukrainian crisis, but the government in Kiev keeps rejecting any constructive talks while stubbornly seeking Russia’s defeat on the battleground and suffering “enormous” losses in its failed counteroffensive, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
Addressing the dire situation in the Gaza Strip, Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, emphasized Gaza is rapidly running out of water and electricity, and the population faces severe shortages of food and medicine.
In his first clear and stark denouncement of Hamas' military operation against Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the armed group's actions and policies “do not represent the Palestinian people", reports say.
Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who used to make headlines for his anti-Israel remarks has once again grabbed media attention, but this time for his silence over the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza.
On a rare occasion, a whale has been spotted and filmed getting close to the shores of the southern Iranian island of Kish, in the Persian Gulf, perhaps foraging for food.
Italian Serie A giants Inter are closer than other rivals to transfer Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi, whose contract with Portugal’s Porto expires this coming summer, La Gazzetta dello Sport reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned that if diplomatic efforts to stop Israeli air raids and prevent a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip are unsuccessful, there is a risk of the conflict escalating uncontrollably, with multiple regional players joining the fight.
Israel’s military air raids have killed at least 2,670 people and wounded 9,600 others since October 7, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has confirmed, calling for uregent international aid.
Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Tel Aviv was not interested in waging war on its northern front and that Israel will keep the situation along the border as it is.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has promised that the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt "will be open" after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.