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Several aid seekers killed in southern Gaza and several others killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City, medical sources say.At least 32 people, including 13 seeking aid, have been killed on Thursday in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities, as four more people died from malnutrition amid a growing starvation crisis in the besieged territory.Eight people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential home in Gaza City in northern Gaza, medical sources told media.Two other people were killed in an Israeli attack on the city’s Tuffah neighbourhood, hospital sources told media.The killings come as…
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Widely rejected draft text does not limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products.Negotiations to secure a global treaty to combat plastic pollution were in limbo as talks entered their final day after dozens of countries rejected the latest draft text.With time running out to seal a deal among the 184 countries gathered at the United Nations in Geneva, the talks’ chair, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, produced a draft text based on the few areas of convergence, in an attempt to find common ground.But the draft succeeded only in infuriating virtually all corners, and the text was immediately shredded…
The far-right minister says he will approve more than 3,000 new homes in the E1 area project.Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he will approve thousands of housing units in a highly controversial and long-delayed illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, saying the move “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”.Smotrich on Thursday said he would approve tenders to build more than 3,000 homes in the E1 area settlement project that would connect Jerusalem and the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located several kilometres to the east.“This reality finally buries the idea of a Palestinian…
Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.More than 100 aid groups have accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza, resulting in vast quantities of relief supplies remaining stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt as more Palestinians starve.Aid trucks have massed on Gaza’s borders amid Israel’s blockade of the famine-stricken territory, and new rules are being used by Israel to deny the entry of food, medicine, water and temporary shelters, the groups said in a joint statement released on Thursday.“Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there…
From South Africa’s Cape Town to Manila in the Philippines and London in the UK, voices are raised in protest.Protests and vigils have taken place around the world in support of Palestinians suffering in Gaza and to pay tribute to the four media journalists and two freelancers killed by Israel in the besieged enclave in a deliberate targeted assassination on Sunday.Journalists, students, activists and members of civil society – notably in Cape Town, South Africa; Manila, the Philippines; and London, the United Kingdom – held the protests on Wednesday to call on their governments to put pressure on Israel to…
There are 60 survivors from the perilous journey from Libya, but a UN agency says there could be more people missing.At least 26 people have died after two boats sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, and a United Nations agency says more refugees and migrants could be missing as search operations continue.Rescue services on Wednesday rescued 60 survivors, with 56 men and four women brought ashore to Lampedusa, according to the Italian Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesperson for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), said around 95…
The surge in Israel’s bombardment in the north of the Gaza Strip comes as it plans to seize Gaza City.At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources, with media’s team on the ground reporting the intensification of strikes on the northern parts of the besieged enclave, where 61 people were killed in Gaza City alone.Israeli air strikes on groups trying to secure the distribution of aid north of Gaza City killed at least 12 people on Wednesday.At least 37 people desperately seeking any food for their families were killed by…
The occupied West Bank town’s mayor says Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh killed as Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians.A Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank has been shot dead in an attack instigated by Israeli settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry as cited by the Wafa news agency.Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35, was shot Wednesday morning in the town of Duma, south of Nablus, by an Israeli off-duty soldier who was accompanying “an Israeli civilian” near Duma “during engineering works”, the Israeli army said.Earlier Palestinian reports of the attack had stated that Dawabsheh was killed by an Israeli settler. 35-year-old…
Turkish foreign minister hosts Syrian counterpart in Ankara; defence ministers sign military cooperation memorandum of understanding.Turkiye has said that Israel and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) must stop threatening the security and stability of Syria as Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan hosted his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani in Ankara.Speaking at a joint news conference on Wednesday, Fidan accused Israel and the SDF of wilfully undermining the country’s recovery efforts after the devastation of a 14-year civil war and the ouster of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last December by a lightning rebel offensive.Fidan said Israel had “fuelled certain difficulties” in Syria…