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The UN human rights chief expressed alarm yesterday following reports of more than 50 civilians being killed in drone strikes in Sudan in two days in the last week. At least 57 civilians were killed between Sunday and Monday, including at least 15 children, in separate drone attacks in four states across Sudan, according to the UN. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said the killings were a reminder of the devastating consequences of drone warfare in Sudan, with civilians and civilian infrastructure targeted. Some 28 civilians were killed on Sunday in an alleged Sudanese Armed Forces drone strike on Al Safiya market in Sudari locality, North Kordofan, the UN said. The next day 26 civilians were killed in West Kordofan in an alleged SAF drone strike at a displacement shelter in Al Sunut. Source link
Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis (R) shakes hands with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during a bilateral meeting between Switzerland and Iran, in Geneva, Switzerland on…
A Palestinian child died after stepping on a mine near an Israeli military camp in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, with an Israeli defence ministry source confirming the death. “Our crews received the body of a 13-year-old child who was killed after a mine exploded in one of the old camps in Jiftlik in the northern Jordan Valley,” the Red Crescent said in a statement. A source at Cogat, the Israeli defence ministry’s agency in charge of civilian matters in Palestinian territories, confirmed the death to AFP and identified the boy as Mohammed Abu Dalah, from the village of Jiftlik. Israel’s military had previously said in a statement that three Palestinians were injured “as a result of playing with unexploded ordnance”, without specifying their ages. It added that the area of the incident, Tirzah, is “a military camp in the area of the Jordan Valley”, near the village of Jiftlik and close to the Jordanian border.“This area is a live-fire zone and entry into it is prohibited,” the military said. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. The village of Jiftlik as well as the nearby Tirzah base are located in the Palestinian territory’s Area C, which falls under direct Israeli control. Much of the area around the nearby border with Jordan —which Israel signed a peace deal with in 1994 — remains mined. In January, Israel’s defence ministry said it had begun demining the border area as part of construction works for a new barrier it says aims to stem weapons smuggling. Source link
A man checks lamps displayed at a shop as Palestinians prepare for the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s Old City. Palestinians walk through Jerusalem’s Old City as they prepare for the holy fasting month of Ramadan, yesterday. Source link
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Alexander De Croo affirmed that the scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip is unimaginable and that the human losses are immense. “Heavy, emotional day in Gaza. The scale of destruction is beyond imagination, the human toll immense. Yet the resilience of the Palestinian people is just as clear,” De Croo said on X platform.He added that the UNDP is on the ground assisting Palestinian people and helping to kick-start early recovery, noting that more needs to be done. The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 72,063 martyrs and 171,726 wounded since Oct. 7, 2023. Source link
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to register lands in the occupied West Bank as “state property” under their control, describing the move as an attempt to impose a new legal and administrative reality that undermines prospects for peace and stability in the region.In a statement issued Monday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories, stressing that such measures constitute a flagrant violation of international law and relevant international resolutions.The Ministry reiterated the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of these illegal practices, emphasizing that they undermine the two-state solution and represent an infringement on the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people to establish their independent and sovereign state along the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Source link
One person was killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon.Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that a young man was killed in the morning when an Israeli drone truck near his home in Hanin municipality in Bint Jbeil district, In a separate development, an Israeli force advanced at dawn into the outskirts of the municipalitiesآ of Ayta ash Shab and Ramyeh in the Bint Jbeil district, where it rigged a house with explosives and detonated it, destroying it completely. A ceasefire agreement in southern Lebanon took effect on Nov. 27, 2024, stipulating the withdrawal of Israeli forces from border villages and towns in southern Lebanon within 60 days. The Lebanese government later agreed to extend the deadline until Feb. 18, 2025. However, the Israeli occupation army remained in five locations and have continued violations, which have exceeded 7,000 airspace breaches and more than 2,400 military activities in the area of ​​operations of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon since November 2025 Source link
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) murdered at least 72,063 Palestinian civilians and injured at least 171,726 others since the beginning of the genocide that the Israeli occupation has been committing against the Gaza Strip in October 2023.Palestinian medical sources reported on Monday that the hospitals across the Gaza Strip received two martyrs and 11 injured civilians over the past 24 hours, pointing out that many victims remain trapped under the rubble and scattered on the streets, as the IOF has been preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.The sources also indicated that, since the ceasefire agreement went into affect in October 2025, the IOF murdered at least 603 Palestinians, and injured at least 1,618 others, while 726آ bodies have been pulled out of the rubble Source link
he Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has warned that recent measures by Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied West Bank risk undermining prospects for a two-state solution.In a statement issued on Monday from its headquarters in Jeddah, the 57-member bloc condemned Israel’s “illegal procedures and decisions”, citing in particular the launch of land settlement processes in parts of the occupied West Bank under the designation of “state land”.The OIC said the move was part of a broader effort to consolidate control over Palestinian territory, expand settlements and weaken the viability of a future Palestinian state.It rejected and denounced the measures, arguing that they target the presence and rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination. The organization reiterated its support for the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state along the lines of June 4,1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The OIC called on the international community, particularly the UN Security Council, to intervene immediately to compel Israel, as the occupying power, to halt illegal actions. It also urged that Israel be held accountable for violations against the Palestinian people, their land and holy sites. Source link
Iran’s foreign minister has arrived in Geneva ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States, Iranian state television said Monday, as Washington keeps up pressure on the Islamic republic.According to Tehran, “indirect” Iran-US nuclear talks mediated by Oman will be held on Tuesday, although Washington has previously pushed for other topics to be discussed including Iran’s ballistic missiles and support for regional proxies. Tehran and Washington restarted negotiations this month after previous talks collapsed when Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran last June.Considerable uncertainty surrounds the fate of Iran’s stockpile of more than 400 kilogrammes of 60-percent enriched uranium that was last seen by nuclear watchdog inspectors in June.”The foreign minister has arrived in Geneva at the head of a diplomatic and expert delegation to take part in the second round of nuclear negotiation,” Iran’s state-run IRIB wrote on its Telegram channel.The top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, later wrote on X that he would meet in Geneva with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, “for deep technical discussion”.He is also set to hold talks with his Swiss and Omani counterparts as well as other international officials, Iran’s foreign ministry said. Source link