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Report: Two IRGC members killed in Syria 

Syria Damascus

Iranian media has identified the two as Panah Taghizadeh and Mohammad Ali Ataei. The exact circumstances of their killing are unknown. Attacks on Iranian military advisors in Syria who are members of the IRGC are mainly carried out by the Zionist regime.

The IRGC military advisors played a key role in defeating the foreign-backed Salafi militants with whom the axix of resistance combatants fought in most of Syria.

The Israeli regime has conducted hundreds of attacks over the past years inside Syria which have killed many Syrian forces and a number of Iranian military advisors, known in Iran as “Defenders of the Shrine”, in a reference to the burial site of Hazrat Zeynab, sister of the third Shia Imam, Hussein ibn Ali (PBUH), near Damascus.

Israeli crimes in Gaza challenge legal status of humanitarian law: Iran FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian

In an article titled “A Jeremiad for Humanity” for IRNA, Amirabdollahian asked how the international community can truly demand the implementation of international humanitarian law when the Zionist authorities call Palestinians “human animals”.

“Yes, when humanity is sacrificed in the slaughterhouse of politics, first of all, humanity should be mourned,” he wrote.

He stressed that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the Tel Aviv regime “did not take place in a vacuum,” pointing out that the occupying entity had been committing atrocities against Palestinians since 1948.

“Many of these crimes were lost in the pages of history and many were forgotten in the darkroom of politics,” added Iran’s top diplomat.

“What is definite is the legitimate right of the oppressed Palestinian people to fight against the occupying regime,” he said, stating, “In international law, there is no such thing as the (right to) defense in the face of a legitimate defense.”

Amirabdollahian concluded his article by asserting that he future belongs to the Palestinian people and the occupying regime and its Western supporters will submit to the “iron will” of the Palestinian people.

Iran roundly rejects U.S. report on terrorism, citing lack of credibility

Nasser Kanaani

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has reacted to an annual terrorism report issued by the U.S. State Department.

“The United States’ annual state reports on terrorism, whose agenda is to portray as threats unlike-minded countries or the ones opposed to the U.S., lack any international credibility and will not change the realities about sincere efforts made by countries to seriously counter terrorism,” he said.

“Twenty years into the publication of such biased and prejudiced reports, the international community and the world public opinion are now in a better position to understand and judge the US government’s behavior and double standards on dealing with the wicked phenomenon of terrorism,” the spokesman explained.

“By distorting realities and fabricating false accounts as well as using untrue terror labels, the United states cannot question the legitimate actions of the resistance movements in the region which are aimed at fighting occupation and which are internationally recognized,” he added.

“It is lost on no one that the US government is the main accomplice in the creation, training, equipment and spearheading of ISIS terrorists. And recently, by offering unflinching support for the Israeli regime’s state terrorism and providing various types of bombs and lethal weapons for this terrorist regime, and by blocking and repeatedly vetoing UN Security Council resolutions on ending the bombardments of Gaza, the US has been the main accomplice in crimes against humanity and the genocide against Palestinians with regards to the brutal killing of more than 15,000 civilians including women and children in Gaza,” the spokesperson noted.

“While admitting that former American officials were involved in the assassination of martyr Qassem Soleimani, the US government keeps shirking its responsibility of being held accountable and also of bringing to justice criminals involved in this crime, and shamelessly portrays itself as the claimant,” he underlined.

“By facilitating the travel of, contacting, sponsoring and sheltering terrorists and creating a safe haven for terrorist ringleaders of the MEK terror group and other groups committing acts of terror and sabotage to promote its own foreign policy agenda, the US government has officially resorted to using terrorism as a tool and continues its hypocrisy in this regard.”

“While condemning the United States’ moves to support terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues its efforts to unmask the US’s blatant hypocrisy with regards to terrorism,” he stressed.

Israel bans aid trucks to Gaza through Rafah crossing

Rafah Crossing

“Israel has informed that it banned humanitarian aid trucks from entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing until further notice,” the PSCS announced.

Israel has ordered that the Palestinian side of the crossing be cleared of trucks as soon as possible.

According to the PSCS, the Israeli decision “exacerbates the suffering of citizens and aggravates the challenges faced by humanitarian organizations that are trying to alleviate the anguish of residents and displaced persons in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip”.

A total of 2,781 trucks carrying thousands of tons of international aid have crossed from Egypt into Gaza since October 21 through the Rafah crossing, according to an Egyptian official.

The aid comprises a substantial quantity of medical supplies and medications, amounting to 3,176 tons, according to Ayman Walash, director of Egypt’s foreign press center.

Additionally, the aid includes 13,348 tons of food; 10,359 tons of water; 3,203 tons of other relief materials; and 137 tons of tents, Walash said during a press briefing in Al-Arish, Egypt.

Gaza ‘most dangerous place in the world to be a child’: UNICEF

Gaza War

Russell said that hundreds of children will die each day if violence returns at the scale and intensity seen before the seven-day pause in fighting that ended on Friday.

“It does not have to be this way – for seven days, there was a glimmer of hope for children amidst this horrific nightmare,” Russell stated in a statement on Friday.

“More than 30 children held hostage in Gaza were safely released and reunited with their families. And the humanitarian pause enabled an increase in the delivery of lifesaving supplies into and across Gaza.”

“Children need a lasting humanitarian ceasefire,” Russell added.

“We call on all parties to ensure that children are protected and assisted, in accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian law. All children in the State of Palestine and Israel deserve peace and hope for a better future.”

UNICEF has also sounded a strong warning about the toll being exacted on children in the Gaza Strip, which has come under a renewed and genocidal Israeli war.

“We cannot see more children with the wounds of war, with the burns, with the shrapnel littering their bodies, with the broken bones,” James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations children’s agency, said on Friday.

“Inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children. This is a war on children,” he added.

Israel launched the war against Gaza on October 7 following an operation staged by the territory’s resistance movements. The war killed more than 15,500 people, most of them women and children, across the coastal sliver until last week when an Egyptian- and Qatari-mediated truce took effect. Israel restarted the military campaign earlier on Friday, following the truce, killing nearly 200 more people.

Thousands more are missing and feared buried under rubble.

Speaking earlier this month, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the besieged Palestinian territory was turning into “a graveyard for children.”

“The health system here is overwhelmed,” Elder continued, adding, “I cannot overstate how the capacity has been reduced of hospitals in the last seven weeks.”

“Clearly words, clearly pleas from the world do not make a difference on those who have the power to stop the killing, the maiming of children.”

Russia admits US sanctions will last ‘for many years’

US Russia Sanctions

Peskov was commenting on the statements by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt, published by the Financial Times on Friday, about Washington’s plans to cripple the Russian economy in the long term.

“We have no doubt that the US will continue to try to put pressure on Russia, including on the entire system of international trade and economic relations, which is basically being destroyed,” Peskov told reporters on Friday.

“It’s probably worth noting that the US is a large economy, but not the only one. The US economy is not the world. There is another country on America’s heels – China,” the spokesperson added.

The US and its allies imposed a unilateral embargo against Russia in 2022, citing the Ukraine conflict. The International Energy Agency has predicted that Russian oil and gas exports could drop by at least 40% by 2030 if the sanctions continue.

“We’re going to do everything we can to help make that true,” Pyatt told the Financial Times. He said the goal of the embargo was to “change Russia’s behavior” but also to make sure that Moscow would be in no shape to wage war going forward.

Pyatt took the energy portfolio at the State Department in September 2022. He is best known in Russia for being the ambassador to Ukraine and taking part in the infamous 2014 phone call with Victoria Nuland about “midwifing” the upcoming coup in Kiev.

In December 2022, the G7 countries decreed a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil, banning Western companies from providing insurance and other services to anyone who would seek to sell above it. Intended to reduce Moscow’s energy export profits, the measure has failed completely.

While oil and gas revenue dropped by 46% to 426 billion rubles ($4.6 billion) in January 2023, by October it was up to 1.635 trillion rubles ($17.6 billion), with EU officials forced to admit that “almost none” of the cargoes had been sold at or below their preferred price.

 

Israel planning global assassination campaign against Hamas: Report

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Israeli intelligence services began drawing up plans for the assassination campaign after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, the American newspaper has reported, citing anonymous officials. Some reportedly wanted to embark on the campaign immediately, but were ordered to wait so that negotiations to free the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas could progress.

The killings have been authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the officials said, adding that it is now a matter of when, not if, the campaign will begin.

While such operations are usually planned in secret, the Israeli government has explicitly warned that it intends to kill Hamas operatives outside Gaza. Before the officials leaked the story to the Wall Street Journal, Netanyahu declared last month that he had “instructed the Mossad to act against the heads of Hamas wherever they are.”

Answering directly to the prime minister’s office, Mossad is Israel’s foreign intelligence and covert operations agency, roughly analogous to the American CIA. The agency has a long history of assassinations on foreign soil, some of which have escalated into major diplomatic incidents.

Famed for capturing Adolf Eichmann – a Nazi officer and leading organizer of the Holocaust – in 1960, Mossad failed to kill many of the Nazis it hunted in the decades immediately after World War II, despite having an extensive hit list to work through. The agency launched a letter-bombing campaign against former Nazi scientists working for Egypt’s rocket program in the early 1960s, but the operation was called off by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1963 after multiple targets escaped and at least five Egyptian workers were killed.

In a multi-decade clandestine operation launched after Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Mossad agents killed 18 people suspected of involvement in the massacre. One of those killed was a Moroccan waiter in Norway, an incident that led to the arrest and sentencing of five Israeli agents by the Norwegian authorities.

More recently, Netanyahu ordered Mossad to assassinate Hamas co-founder Khaled Mashal in Jordan in 1997. The two-man assassination team was captured after one sprayed a toxin into Mashal’s ear, and Jordan threatened to shred its peace treaty with Israel in response. The diplomatic standoff was defused when Israeli agents delivered an antidote to the toxin and Netanyahu agreed to release dozens of Palestinian prisoners, including Hamas imam and co-founder Ahmed Yassin.

Mossad agents were also caught using forged Irish, British, and Australian passports for an assassination operation in Dubai in 2010.

Iran rejects ‘misleading, politically motivated’ E3 statement on its missile program

Fattah Missile

In a statement on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said claims by the European trio, also known as the E3, about the Iranian missile lack legal basis.

He added all UN Security Council restrictions on Iran’s missile program have been terminated as of October 18 under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Therefore, the E3 claims against Iran’s missile program are unacceptable and illegal, Kanaani said.

In their statement on Thursday, the E3 condemned the unveiling of a new ballistic missile variant by Iran on November 19 and said Iran continues to develop its missile program despite repeated international calls to halt it.

The three European parties to the JCPOA also accused Iran of playing a “destabilizing” role in the region and the world and announced that they would take “every diplomatic step to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.”

Kanaani stressed the development of Iran’s convenient missile capability pursues a deterrent goal in accordance with the country’s defense needs.

Baseless allegations, the Iranian diplomat stated, would in no way influence Iran’s legitimate defense activities. Kanaani advised the E3 to avoid leveling such allegations that would harm interaction between Tehran and Europe.

Iranian military experts and engineers have in recent years made remarkable breakthroughs in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient. Iranian officials have repeatedly underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which are entirely meant for defense.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive casualties top 125k: Russia

Russia Ukraine War

The Ukrainian government and its Western backers had high expectations for the operation, for which the former’s army was provided with main battle tanks and other advanced arms. Ukrainian officials predicted that the push would help their country reclaim territory lost since major hostilities started in February 2022, and potentially launch an incursion into Crimea, which had broken away from Kiev in the wake of the 2014 armed coup.

“Total mobilization in Ukraine, delivery of Western arms and deployment of strategic reserves by the Ukrainian command have not changed the situation on the battlefield,” the Russian minister reported.

“Those desperate actions simply increased the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces.”

As such, Kiev’s military has been “significantly degraded” while Russian forces are “taking a more advantageous position and widening the zone under their control on all fronts,” Shoigu added.

Last week, Shoigu put Ukrainian casualties in November at 13,700, which pushed the Russian estimate of total Ukrainien losses in the counteroffensive over the 100,000 benchmark.

The most senior Ukrainian general, Valery Zaluzhny, reported in early November that the frontline situation had devolved into a “stalemate” and that Kiev’s side was unlikely to achieve a breakthrough unless some surprise technological development gave it a decisive edge over Moscow. His assessment has been rejected by officials, with President Volodymyr Zelensky maintaining that Ukrainians are still making progress.

On Friday, the Associated Press published an interview with the Ukrainian leader, in which he said, “Look, we are not backing down, I am satisfied.” He blamed a shortage of Western weapons for the underwhelming results of the Ukrainian operation and declared that a “new phase” in the hostilities was beginning this winter.

Aleksey Arestovich, a former aide to President Zelensky, has also claimed Ukraine has lost up to 300,000 soldiers during its conflict with Russia.

Arestovich made the revelation on Friday while speaking to journalist Yulia Latynina via video link. The former presidential aide was addressing the recent admission made by top Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia, who said the Istanbul talks between Moscow and Kiev were derailed by then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who urged Ukraine to “just continue fighting” instead of attempting to reach a deal with Russia.

“I was a member of the Istanbul negotiating team, but even I don’t know how it happened that we decided to break off the Istanbul [talks],” Arestovich stated.

The initiatives floated during the Istanbul talks were actually “very good,” he admitted, claiming that Ukraine’s neutrality and its non-alignment with NATO was a “red line” for Moscow.

Refusing to negotiate, however, has only resulted in heavy casualties, while its prospects to join NATO still remain dubious, he suggested.

“Where is NATO? Does it accept us or not? And will it accept us? … Then the 200 thousand [Ukrainian servicemen] or whatever, 300 thousand, would still be alive,” the ex-aide continued.

Israel-Palestine conflict LIVE: Qatar says negotiations to secure another pause in Gaza fighting continue

Gaza War

Wounded civilians are “lying on floor” in hospitals after fighting resumes: Health ministry

Civilians have flooded hospitals in Gaza following the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, further overwhelming the medical infrastructure in the war-torn territory.

Most of the victims of the bombardments in Gaza since the truce ended on Friday are women and children, according to the health ministry in Gaza.

“Medical teams have been dealing with large numbers of wounded since the end of the humanitarian pause yesterday morning, with the continued bombing of civilians,” Ashraf Al-Qidra, a spokesman for the health ministry, told CNN.

“The wounded are lying on the floor in emergency departments and in front of operating rooms as a result of the accumulation of cases.”

Conditions are also worsening in southern Gaza. Israel has recently started carrying out strikes there after previously concentrating military activity in the enclave’s north.

“Hospitals in the southern regions of the Gaza Strip have become unable to provide medical services. The emergency department is unable to receive more casualties,” the director of the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Dr. Youssef Al-Akkad stated.


Israel orders more Palestinians in south Gaza to leave homes

The Israeli military has published several maps ordering Palestinians in Gaza to leave their homes and head towards what it calls “shelter centres”, though no such secure and safe areas exist in the besieged strip.

Palestinians in a number of zones in northern Gaza’s Jalabiya, Shujayya and Zeitoun were told to move to Daraj and Tuffah areas of Gaza City.

Those in several zones in southern Gaza’s Khirbat Ikhza’a, Abasan, Bani Suheila and Ma’an were instructed to head for Rafah near the border with Egypt.

The map effectively splits the Gaza Strip into countless isolated islands. Many Palestinian being forced to move have already been displaced several times.

In the past, the zones Israel designated as safer have proved just as deadly.


Erdogan: ‘I cannot accept Hamas as a terror group’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rebuffed US efforts to ostracise Hamas in the country.

On his way back from the United Arab Emirates after attending the Cop28 summit, Erdogan said: “I stand by my position. No matter what anybody says, I cannot accept Hamas as a terror group.”

The comments came days after Brian Nelson, the US Treasury’s top terrorism financing official, expressed “profound” concern over alleged Hamas “ability to continue to fund raise and find financial support” from within Turkey.

Regarding Israel’s ongoing assault in Gaza, Erdogan added: “This is state terrorism. We cannot stay silent against this state terrorism,” as reported by the Turkish media outlet Anadolu Agency.

“The Netanyahu administration’s massacre in Gaza is etched in history as a black stain. Countries supporting this unconditionally are stained as well,” Erdogan continued.


US sends Israel 2,000-pound bombs: WSJ

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the US has provided Israel with large bunker buster bombs, as Israel continues its bombing campaign in Gaza after the breakdown of a temporary truce with Hamas.

The surge of US arms to Israel, which includes roughly 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, began shortly after the 7 October attack and has continued in recent days, the newspaper reported citing US officials.

The transfer of 100 BLU-109, 2,000-pound bunker buster munitions has not been previously disclosed by the US.

Shortly after Israel began its military response to the 7 October attack, the top State Department official overseeing arms transfers resigned from his position, citing the Biden administration’s uncritical support of Israel’s aerial bombardment of the besieged enclave.


At least 61 journalists killed in Israel-Hamas conflict: Committee to Protect Journalists

At least 61 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday.

The deaths were overwhelmingly Palestinian journalists.

CPJ said that 54 Palestinian, four Israeli, and three Lebanese journalists had been killed, according to the group’s statement.

The journalism advocacy group added the latest Israel-Gaza conflict has “led to the deadliest month for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.”

The latest death of a media member was Friday when Montaser Al-Sawaf, a freelance journalist working for the Turkish news agency Anadolu, was killed in an Israeli strike.


Less than a third of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of Gaza war

A new poll released by Gallup shows that just 32 percent of American respondents approve of the way Biden is handling the war in Gaza.

The poll was released just a day before Israel restarted its military campaign in the enclave after talks to extend a truce broke down.

Among Americans ages 18-34, the support of Biden’s handling of the conflict drops to 22 percent.


UN relief chief urges renewed humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

The United Nations relief chief has urged for a renewed humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as Israel resumed combat operations against Hamas on Friday.

Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, warned that people in Gaza are terrified and have no safe places to go.

The Israel Defense Forces announced Friday that it expanded its operations into the southern part of the enclave, where it previously told civilians to take shelter.

He stated people also have very little food and water. The pause in fighting allowed for more humanitarian aid to cross into Gaza.

Griffiths added the seven-day pause in fighting was “a glimpse of what can happen when the guns fall silent.”

“The situation in Khan Younis today is a shocking reminder of what happens when they don’t,” the relief chief continued.

Khan Younis is the largest city in southern Gaza where the IDF dropped leaflets on Friday, calling it a “fighting zone” and telling residents to “evacuate immediately.” The Israeli military also named Khan Younis as one of the places its “ground, air and naval forces struck terror targets” on Friday.

Griffiths also called for “progress in aid delivery” and for the protection of civilians and “life-sustaining infrastructure.”

“We need the remaining hostages to be released immediately and unconditionally. We need a humanitarian ceasefire. We need the fighting to stop.”


Hamas is holding 136 hostages in Gaza: IDF

At least 136 hostages are still being held in Gaza, according to the Israel Defence Forces.

IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the number includes 17 women and children.

The Israeli military announced the body of one hostage, Ofir Tzarfati, was brought back to Israel.

He was confirmed dead Thursday, with the IDF not specifying when and where Tzarfati was killed.


Qatar says continued Israeli military operations in Gaza complicate mediation efforts

Qatar, which has played a key role in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, expressed its deep regret at the renewed “Israeli aggression” on Gaza following the expiration of the humanitarian truce.

“The continued bombing of the Gaza Strip in the first hours after the end of the truce complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip,” the Qatari foreign ministry said in a statement Friday.

Qatar vowed to take all necessary measures to restore calm.

The ministry announced negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides are continuing with the aim of returning to a state of truce.

Qatar condemns all forms of targeting civilians, collective punishment and attempts to forcibly displace Gaza residents, the ministry added.

Qatar also demands “an immediate ceasefire and to ensure the continuous and unhindered flow of relief convoys and humanitarian aid, in a way that meets the actual needs of the residents of the Strip,” the statement read.


“Nightmare” returns for civilians caught in renewed fighting: Red Cross director-general

The “nightmare” for civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas war has returned as fighting has picked up again, Robert Mardini, director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, stated Friday.

“The nightmare is back for civilians in this conflict. Gazans, of course, but also Israelis on the other side of the front line,” Mardini told CNN’s Becky Anderson.

“And after seven days of respite that made a huge difference in terms of humanitarian support to the people who need the support most, this is now being challenged by the resumption of fighting.”

Mardini emphasized the importance of holding out hope for another truce.

“We need to keep the hope alive. Let’s not forget that there has been seven full days of truce,” he continued, adding, “That was a glimmer of hope. That was humanity prevailing in the midst of chaos and conflict. It is also international humanitarian law in action when these operations can take place following a negotiation between the parties.”

The director-general also announced both sides in the conflict “must work harder to protect civilians, because it is their obligation, period.”

The ICRC has played a crucial role in the delicate process of handing over hostages held by Hamas to Israeli authorities. Mardini described the process as “a very simple operation because it is facilitating the transfer, but at the same time it is very complex, because at every step of the way it can derail, because every single detail is part and parcel of negotiations between the parties.”

“And our teams have to implement those negotiations in a very disciplined way,” he added.

He also commended the work of his team on the ground in Gaza. “A lot of credit should go to them today,” he said.

The ICRC staff and volunteers are “caught between a rock and a hard place,” as they face the same challenges as civilians and are in the line of fire, he continued.


Resumption of fighting in Gaza is “catastrophic”: UN human rights chief

The situation in Gaza is “beyond crisis point” and the resumption of fighting is “catastrophic,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Friday.

“I urge all parties and States with influence over them to redouble efforts, immediately, to ensure a ceasefire – on humanitarian and human rights grounds,” Türk urged.

Türk stated recent comments from Israeli leaders indicating their plans to expand and intensify their military offensive is “troubling.”

“Since 7 October, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. More now face the same fate. Others risk being forcibly displaced to already severely over-crowded and unsanitary parts of Gaza,” he added.

The UN representative called for the release of all remaining hostages, the cessation of indiscriminate rocket fire, and concrete steps to prevent further disaster.


UN chief expresses deep regret at war resuming in Gaza

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his deep regret at the resumption of fighting between Israel and Hamas.

“I deeply regret that military operations have started again in Gaza. I still hope that it will be possible to renew the pause that was established,” Guterres wrote in a post on X on Friday.

“The return to hostilities only shows how important it is to have a true humanitarian ceasefire,” he added.


Over 2,700 trucks carrying aid have entered Gaza from Egypt since October 21: Egyptian official

A total of 2,781 trucks carrying thousands of tons of international aid have crossed from Egypt into Gaza since October 21 through the Rafah crossing, according to an Egyptian official.

The aid comprises a substantial quantity of medical supplies and medications, amounting to 3,176 tons, according to Ayman Walash, director of Egypt’s foreign press center.

Additionally, the aid includes 13,348 tons of food; 10,359 tons of water; 3,203 tons of other relief materials; and 137 tons of tents, Walash said during a press briefing in Al-Arish, Egypt.