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Kuwait’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, held a telephone conversation on Sunday with the Maldives’ Foreign Minister, Iruthisham Adam, to discuss regional and international developments.During the call, the two ministers also reviewed bilateral relations between their countries and explored ways to strengthen and expand cooperation across various fields. Related Story Source link
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) murdered at least 73,032 Palestinian civilians and injured at least 173,357 others since the beginning of the genocide that the Israeli occupation has been committing against the Gaza Strip in October 2023. The health authorities in the Gaza Strip said in a statement on Sunday that hospitals across the Strip received nine Palestinian martyrs and 41 injured others over the past 24 hours. The sources indicated that many of the victims remain under the rubble and scattered on the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews are still unable to reach them.Since the “ceasefire” agreement went into effect in October 2025, the IOF murdered at least 1,021 Palestinians, and injured at least 3,249 others, while 784 bodies were pulled out from under the rubble. Related Story Source link
A member of the civil defence carries an injured girl following an Israeli strike in Barish, as they arrive at Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre, Lebanon,…
Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Saturday.In a statement , the network said it “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing” the Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent.”This constitutes a new and flagrant violation of all international laws and norms, and reflects a continued systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth,” the statement added.At least 10 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza Saturday.Wishah’s killing comes barely two months after his brother, Mohammed Wishah, also a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed on April 8 when an Israeli drone fired a missile that struck his car on the al-Rashid coastal road as he drove home to Bureij. He was declared dead at the scene.Mohammed Wishah, born in 1986 in Bureij, had joined Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language live channel in 2018 and was among 12 Al Jazeera journalists and media workers killed in Gaza since the start of the war in October 2023. At the time of his death, Palestinian authorities put the number of media workers killed across the enclave at 262. Related Story Source link
Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud affirmed today his country’s aspiration for a permanent agreement between the United States and Iran that would enhance the security and stability of the region.During a telephone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, His Royal Highness expressed the Kingdom’s welcome of the agreement reached between the United States and Iran to end military operations, facilitated by mediation efforts undertaken by Islamabad.For his part, Sharif commended the efforts exerted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in supporting the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran to halt the conflict between them. Source link
Two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli occupation strike on Gaza City early Saturday, according to local medical sources.Medical officials in the enclave said that a woman and a child were killed and a number of other people were injured when an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment on Al Thalathini Street in Gaza City. Medical teams transferred the bodies of the two victims to Al Shifa Hospital in the western part of the city, while the wounded were taken for treatment.The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 73,018 people killed and 173,273 wounded.The cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel, which it said took effect on Oct. 10 of last year, has not spared Gaza residents from daily attacks, displacement and systematic starvation. Instead, the living conditions have become increasingly difficult amid severe shortages of basic necessities. Related Story Source link
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has underlined the importance of the immediate, sustained, and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, rejecting its use as a means of collective punishment or a tool for political pressure.In its statement on behalf of the Arab Group during the emergency session of the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, Saudi Arabia affirmed that the Palestinian issue remains at the heart of the conflict in the Middle East, and that achieving a just and lasting peace requires the implementation of the two-state solution and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. The Arab Group reiterated its rejection of settlement policies, land confiscation, forced displacement, and the targeting of civilians.Saudi Arabia also affirmed the invalidity of all attempts to impose Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories or to alter the legal and historical status of Jerusalem and its holy sites, expressing its welcome for international efforts aimed at achieving a permanent ceasefire, including the American efforts.On behalf of the Arab Group, Saudi Arabia called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security and to implement its relevant resolutions, including Resolution 2334, stressing the need to implement international legal obligations in a way that contributes to protecting the Palestinian people and supporting the prospects for peace and stability in the Middle East region. Related Story Source link
Iran’s Strait of Hormuz body said on Friday it would waive planned fees to use the strait during a 60-day negotiation period under the memorandum of understanding signed with the United States this week.Ships seeking passage through the strait while the interim agreement is in force must submit transit requests at least 48 hours before arrival, Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) said in a notice.Iran would waive fees for security, safety, environmental services and related insurance during the period, while requiring vessels to coordinate routes and transit times in advance due to areas affected by mines and to ensure safe navigation. Source link
Israeli occupation forces launched a series of intensive airstrikes on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries amid continued violations of the ceasefire agreement.The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that the city of Nabatieh and its surrounding areas came under heavy Israeli bombardment from midnight until dawn, with several towns and neighborhoods across the region targeted.According to the agency, Israeli warplanes carried out two separate airstrikes on Kfarjouz area, the University District in Al Nabatieh, and Al Baydar neighborhood in the town of Harouf, killing seven people and injuring ten others.Additional airstrikes targeted Ash'amiyah area, killing four people and destroying a residential house, while heavy artillery shelling was also reported.In the town of Kfarsir, three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The town of Qusaybah was also targeted in a dawn airstrike accompanied by artillery shelling.Meanwhile, an Israeli drone strike targeting a motorcycle in the town of Doueir killed one person and injured another.The town of Jebchit was subjected to a series of drone strikes by Israeli forces, coinciding with artillery shelling of the area.The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has not yet announced a final toll from the Israeli escalation in Nabatieh region, while initial reports indicate dozens of casualties.The latest attacks come despite the ceasefire arrangement in place, as Israeli forces continue to carry out military operations in various areas of southern Lebanon. Source link
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher stated that the Gaza Strip continues to face a severe crisis six months after the ceasefire, with Palestinians in the Strip suffering from insecurity and lack of access to clean water, healthcare, and education.Fletcher added, during a UN Security Council session today, that the agreement between the United States and Iran and the hopes for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon should bring renewed attention to Gaza. He explained that the Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to deliver aid, recalling the killing of nearly sixty aid workers during the three years of war.The UN Under-Secretary-General further explained that 70 percent of Gaza's population is in need of adequate shelter, that not a single hospital is fully operational, and that the sanitation situation is deteriorating. He also noted that the Israeli occupation forces are obstructing the entry of generators, engine oil, and spare parts.The UN official urged the opening of all border crossings and the removal of Israeli restrictions on essential supplies. He also called for exempting humanitarian aid from border restrictions, granting long-term visas to humanitarian workers, resuming the convoys coordinated by the Jordanian and Palestinian governments, and expanding medical evacuations.The UN official noted that since the ceasefire, Gaza is no longer classified as a state of famine (Phase 5), although it remains in a severe crisis (Phase 4). He added that 21,000 truckloads of aid have been collected, water and health services have been expanded, tens of thousands of children have been vaccinated, 100 classrooms have been rehabilitated, and shelter has been provided for more than 600,000 people.Fletcher explained that this was not enough, adding that Gaza was holding on thanks to temporary humanitarian solutions and the resilience of the Palestinians, ‘and this is an unsustainable situation.’ He emphasized that the population remained deprived of basic necessities such as security, shelter, clean water, healthcare, and education, adding that civilians continued to be killed and injured, noting that nearly 1,000 Palestinians had been killed since the ceasefire.Fletcher concluded his briefing with three key demands for the Security Council: the protection of civilians and humanitarian workers, ensuring safe, sustained, and unimpeded access for aid, and providing sufficient funding. Source link