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Israel’s Gaza clearance plan a humanitarian crisis: EU

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”.

WHO warns Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘death sentence’ for patients

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 Gazans fled since Israel’s evacuation warning

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.

Situation in Gaza has reached a dangerous new low: UN chief

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.

Israel targeted medical personnel during humanitarian missions: Palestine

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.”

Turkey’s Erdogan lashes out at US over dispatching carrier to ME

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit out at the United States for exacerbating tensions between Israel and Palestine by sending an aircraft carrier to the region and using sectarian language.

Israel-Palestine conflict: Gaza death toll at 2,200 as residents flee

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.

IRGC chief: Hamas military operation heavy defeat for Israel

Addressing Friday Prayers in Tehran, chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami described the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation against Israel as the "biggest failure of the Zionist regime since 1948 and the greatest victory for the Palestinian movement."

Iranians hold rallies nationwide to support Palestinians, condemn Israeli bombardment of Gaza

Millions of Iranians held protest rallies across the country on Friday to condemn Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians as the Tel Aviv regime keeps bombarding the Gaza Strip and imposing a complete siege on the coastal enclave.

Iranian FM: US giving Israel a chance to destroy Gaza, new fronts likely to open

The Iranian foreign minister has warned “the unlimited US support for Israel’s ongoing crimes” in Gaza will further exacerbate the situation, adding there are concerns that the war will spill over in the region and new fronts will open.

Israel’s “collective punishment” of Gazans amounts to war crime: Amnesty

Human rights group Amnesty International on Friday urged Israel to immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the collective punishment of civilians for Hamas's military operation amounts to a war crime.

Hamas: Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza Strip

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, says Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza, stressing that Western countries offering military aid to Israel are complicit in the killing of Palestinians instead of seeking a resolution to the conflict and occupation.

West Bank and East Jerusalem death toll rises to 36: Palestinian health ministry

At least 36 people have died, and more than 650 have been injured, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah has announced.

Human Rights Watch verifies Israeli use of white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has confirmed the use of white phosphorus by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Iran FM warns of expansion of Gaza war, does not rule out new front against Israel

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned if the Israeli regime continues its “war crimes” against Palestinians, resistance factions in the region will open up new fronts against the occupying regime.

Iranian, Syrian presidents urge global solidarity to support Palestine

In a telephone conversation between Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a strong and urgent message emerged with both urging prompt world action to help Palestinians particularly Gazans.

Iran president discusses Palestine-Israel conflict with Saudi Crown Prince

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have discussed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in the first phone call between the two leaders since a China-brokered deal that saw the resumption of Tehran-Riyadh ties.

Iran Leader: Israel’s defeat ‘irreparable intelligence, military failure’

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent Israeli defeat following a surprise operation by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is ‘irreparable.”

Israel lays ‘complete siege’ to Gaza Strip

Israel has announced laying a "complete siege" to the Gaza Strip amid intensified fighting with the Palestinian Hamas group.

Hospitals in Gaza on verge of blackout after Israel cut electricity supplies

As the bombs rained down on the Gaza Strip, health care professionals told Middle East Eye that they were battling another crisis inside the besieged enclave's hospitals: The outages.

Iranian pres. discusses developments in occupied territory during high-stakes phone calls

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi engaged in separate phone conversations with Ziad Al-Nakhale, the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movementm, Hamas.

Israeli military strikes Gaza Strip amid protests at border

The Israeli military has conducted air attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip, where demonstrators have had confrontations for days with Israeli troops along the separation fence.

Gaza dialysis services collapsing amid Israeli siege: Health ministry

The Gaza Strip's Health Ministry has issued a stern warning about the imminent collapse of dialysis services at hospitals due to Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Israel strikes Gaza Strip after border violence

The Israeli military has announced it launched an air raid on the Gaza Strip, following violence at a border rally in which, health officials said, multiple Palestinians were wounded.

Blast kills 5 at Gaza rally marking 2005 Israel pullout

At least five Palestinians have been killed and 25 others wounded in an explosion next to the separation fence along the Israeli frontier with the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in the besieged enclave has confirmed. The cause of the blast was not immediately known.

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