Gaza Strip

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the West Asia region is “on the verge of an abyss” as the bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip continues by the Israeli military.

Hamas is holding 155 captivates after its surprise attack on Israel, the so-called Israel Defense Forces confirmed.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has confirmed more than one million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli bombardment of the besieged enclave last week.

The Iranian foreign minister, in a phone call with his Chinese counterpart, urged Beijing to use its capacities to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in a phone conversation with his French counterpart, has warned against the consequences of the continuation of Israel's onslaught against Gaza.

Casualties in the Gaza Strip over the past eight days have topped the number of those killed during the 2014 Gaza-Israel conflict, according to the spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the besieged enclave.

The Iranian foreign minister has warned against the continuation of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, saying If “the Israeli regime’s crimes in Gaza continue, any possibility in the region is likely”.

The Pentagon has ordered a second carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and is sending Air Force fighter jets to the region as Israel prepares to expand its Gaza operations, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stated.

Israel’s military says it is preparing for the next stages of the war against Hamas in Gaza, as the death toll from the ongoing conflict among Palestinians has reached 2,400 in the strip.

The Iranian mission to the United Nations has warned of “far-reaching consequences” if Israel does not stop its attacks on Gaza, it described as war crimes and genocide.

Political chief of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, has accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, but stressed that Palestinians will never leave Gaza.

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.

The United Nations health organization has once again condemned Israel’s order to evacuate 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 inpatients in northern Gaza, describing it as a death sentence against Gazans.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has held talks with the sultan of Oman and Iraq’s prime minister on the phone over the situation in Gaza, calling for necessary measures to prevent from the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the enclave.

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.

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.

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 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.

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'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.

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”.

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 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.

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.

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.”