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Displaced Palestinian child Yasser Arafat, 5, who, according to medics, suffers from severe acute malnutrition with nutritional edema, sits in front of his family’s tent at…
Four Palestinians, including a woman, were martyred in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported.WAFA said rescue teams were unable to recover the bodies due to continued Israeli airstrikes in the area.Israeli occupation forces have intensified air raids and artillery shelling since dawn today, in addition to firing from armored vehicles and naval gunboats, targeting several areas across the Gaza Strip, particularly Khan Younis and Rafah, as well as eastern districts of Gaza City. WAFA added that the occupation army continues its violations of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, which has been in effect since October 10.According to Palestinian medical sources, the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 70,669 martyrs, with 171,165 injuries, since October 2023. Source link
Syria’s foreign ministry on Friday welcomed the permanent ending by the United States of the so-called Caesar sanctions, paving the way for the return of investment to the war-ravaged nation.The US Congress on Wednesday permanently ended the sanctions imposed on Syria under Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December last year. The Caesar Act, named after an anonymous photographer who documented atrocities in Assad’s prisons, severely restricted investment and cut off Syria from the international banking system. A foreign ministry statement in Damascus “welcomed” the step, calling it “an entrance to the phase of reconstruction and development”. It urged “all Syrians in the country and abroad to contribute in national recovery efforts”. Source link
Vehicles drive on a flooded road during heavy rain in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on December 18, 2025. (AFP) Dubai police Thursday urged residents to stay indoors unless it was “absolutely necessary” as heavy rainfall was expected in the country which saw record downpours last year. The warning came hours after rainfall in the city caused flooding in streets. “For your safety, please remain cautious as unstable weather conditions are expected in the coming hours, and avoid going out unless it is absolutely necessary until midday today,” said a police alert sent to residents’ phones. The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) in the United Arab Emirates warned of rainfall across the country from Thursday to Friday, including in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Related Story Source link
A man watches as members of the Palestinian Civil Defence participate in a search and rescue operation at the site of a house that was partially…
Israel launched several strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese state media reported, as the Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure including a military compound. The attacks come as the committee monitoring the ceasefire, in effect since November 2024, which includes the United States, France and the UN in addition to Lebanon and Israel, is set to meet on Friday. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported several strikes in the south and east. In another statement, the military said: “A short while ago, the IDF struck a Hezbollah in the area of Taybeh in southern Lebanon.”Lebanon’s health ministry said four people were wounded in the Taybeh strike.Despite the ceasefire that was supposed to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and militant group Hezbollah, Israel has intensified its attacks.A meeting on Lebanon is taking place on Thursday in Paris with the Lebanese army chief and American and Saudi officials, at a time when France and the United States are pressuring the Lebanese government to accelerate Hezbollah’s disarmament. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called the Israeli strikes “an Israeli message to the Paris conference dedicated to supporting the Lebanese arm. Source link
Mourners carry bodies during the funeral of senior commander Raed Saed and his aides, in Gaza City, Sunday. Israel’s assassination of a senior Hamas commander threatens the viability of the Gaza ceasefire, the chief negotiator of the resistance group said Sunday, calling on US President Donald Trump to demand Israel comply with the terms of the truce.Thousands of Hamas supporters rallied in central Gaza City at a funeral for senior commander Raed Saed and three associates killed alongside him on Saturday.The mourners chanted “Martyrs are dear to God” and carried the bodies in coffins draped in green Hamas flags, in one of the group’s biggest displays of its presence since a US-backed ceasefire deal came into effect in Gaza in October.In a televised address, Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, who lives in exile, confirmed the killing of Saed, the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the truce.”The continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement… and latest assassinations that targeted Saed and others threaten the viability of the agreement,” Hayya said.”We call on mediators, and especially the main guarantor, the US administration and President Donald Trump, to work on obliging Israel to respect the ceasefire and commit to it.”The Hamas armed wing said later Sunday it has chosen a replacement for Saed.Hamas sources have described Saed as the second-in-command of the group’s armed wing, after Izzeldeen Al-Hadad.Hamas has not identified an overall chief since Israel killed the group’s head, Yehya Al-Sinwar, in 2024. Instead, the group has since been led by a five-man high leadership council, of which Hayya is a member.Since the ceasefire, Israeli forces remain in control of the depopulated eastern half of Gaza, while the resistance group has reasserted its control over the western half, where nearly all of the enclave’s more than 2 million people live in the ruins. Related Story Source link
GCC emphasizes importance of evaluating, developing general secretariat’s digital infrastructure
Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jassim Mohammed Al Bedaiwi stressed the importance of evaluating and developing the digital infrastructure of the General Secretariat and…
The death toll from the Israeli occupation’s offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 70,663 people killed and 171,139 wounded.In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said that hospitals across the enclave received nine bodies and 45 wounded people over the past 24 hours. Of the fatalities, four were recovered from the rubble and five were newly killed.The ministry said the number of people killed and wounded since the ceasefire agreement on Oct. 11 has reached 391 killed and 1,063 wounded.It added that civil defense crews and residents have recovered 632 bodies over the past two months since the war halted. Those victims were killed in Israeli airstrikes on residential buildings.The ministry said thousands of victims are still believed to be buried under millions of tons of rubble. Source link
Settlers on Sunday stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem, under the protection of the Israeli occupation police.The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in groups, carried out provocative tours in its courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals, protected by the occupation forces.These incursions come as part of the occupation’s efforts to erase the Islamic and historical identity of Jerusalem and to implement its plans for the temporal and spatial division of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. (QNA) Source link