Israel's war on Gaza — now in its 137th day — has killed at least 29,195 Palestinians and wounded 69,170 others.
US veto obstructs international efforts to stop the aggression, and increases the suffering of our people, says Hamas/ Photo: AAHamas has condemned a US decision to veto a UN Security Council push for a Gaza ceasefire, saying it amounted to giving Israel the"green light" to carry out"more massacres".
"It wil also impact UNRWA activities in the occupied West Bank , Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, where we have hundreds of thousands of girls and boys in our schools and where the Agency provides primary healthcare for 2M Palestine refugees," he added.Egypt has regretted the repeated failure of the UN Security Council to issue a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, will hold talks Wednesday in Egypt and Thursday in Israel, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.As UN World Food Program suspends aid amid chaos in northern Gaza, Hamas has called the pause 'catastrophic' and a 'death sentence'.
On Monday, UN experts expressed alarm over"credible allegations" of egregious human rights violations that Palestinian women and girls continue to face.An Israeli ground offensive in Rafah would turn the southern Gaza city into a"graveyard" and heighten the looming risk of famine, leaders of global humanitarian groups have warned.
"Netanyahu refuses to halt the aggression on Gaza or withdraw from the enclave," one of the sources told Anadolu. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea added the group used drones to target a number of US warships in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea as well as sites in Eilat in southern Israel.A massive famine is unfolding in Gaza amid a deadly Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave, the government media office has said.
In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Mikhail Bogdanov spoke over the phone with representatives of the Fatah movement and the Hamas group and discussed issues related to the Israeli war on Gaza. Speaking to Anadolu, Mecdelani detailed the extent of the devastation, with over 1.8M Palestinians displaced and more than 300,000 homes destroyed.The UN's food agency has said it has suspended aid deliveries to northern Gaza despite widespread hunger, after a convoy of trucks faced gunfire and looting.
McGurk, who participated in earlier negotiations, will visit Egypt on Wednesday and Israel on Thursday, the official said. After being denied access on Friday and Saturday, the WHO said it led two life-saving missions to transfer 32 critical patients, including two children, from Nasser Medical Complex.Qatar has said that negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage swap between Hamas and Israel are ongoing.
He said Israel has made it impossible to establish a Palestinian state by annexing more than two billion square metres of land and building more than 279 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.Illegal Israeli settlers' groups in the occupied West Bank are intensifying their attacks against Palestinians to ignite a broader conflict, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry has said.
Hamas has repeatedly stated its pre-conditions for a prisoner swap deal are a complete ceasefire, Israeli army withdrawal from the besieged Gaza and rebuilding Gaza.Illegal Israeli settlers' groups in the occupied West Bank are intensifying their attacks against Palestinians to ignite a broader conflict, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said his bid to bar most Muslim citizens from Friday prayers during Ramadan was overruled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to a joint statement by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the new arrests brought the total number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli forces since October 7 to nearly 7,120.
Four months of Israel's relentless war has flattened much of the Palestinian territory, pushed 2.2 million people to the brink of famine and displaced three-quarters of the population, according to UN estimates.
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