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People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell media many died on the way from wounds or lack of food.A Sudanese medical organisation has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of engaging in a “desperate attempt” to conceal evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning bodies or burying them in mass graves.The Sudan Doctors Network said on Sunday that paramilitaries are collecting “hundreds of bodies” from the streets of el-Fasher, in Sudan’s western Darfur region, after their bloody takeover of the city on October 26, saying the group’s crimes could not be “erased through concealment or burning”.Recommended Stories list…
White House says nearly 700 aid trucks entering war-battered Gaza each day, a figure disputed by Palestinians and aid groups.The White House says nearly 15,000 trucks carrying commercial goods and humanitarian aid have entered Gaza since October 10, but Palestinians and aid groups have sharply disputed the figures.White House spokesperson Dylan Johnson told media on Sunday an average of 674 trucks have entered Gaza daily since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during occupied West Bank raidlist 2 of 4It’s not just Israel to blame for the medical evacuation…
Body identified as Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin with the remains of four other deceased captives still in Gaza.Israel has received the body of a soldier held in Gaza for more than a decade after he was killed in an ambush by Hamas fighters in 2014 during the last major ground assault on the Palestinian enclave.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday the remains were handed over to Israeli forces in Gaza by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) after Hamas transferred the body to the aid organisation.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Israeli settlers attack…
Egypt will head to the polls on Monday, in the first of two rounds of voting for the House of Representatives.On Monday, Egyptians will head to the polls in the first of a two-phase process aimed at electing a new House of Representatives. Expatriates already voted on November 7 and 8.Egypt has taken an increasingly proactive role regionally as of late, joining Qatar as a key negotiator for the ceasefire in Gaza. The country has also deployed Foreign Ministry representatives to Lebanon in recent weeks.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US…
Injured children like my cousin Ahmad are languishing in Gaza because foreign governments will not take them in for treatment.My cousin Ahmad was nine years old when he suffered a severe head injury in Gaza. A year ago, a missile hit the house next to ours in Nuseirat. The explosion was so violent that it pushed Ahmad off the third-floor staircase of our building. He fell badly on his head, shattering his skull.We carried him to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where the doctors fought for his life. There were moments when the heart monitor barely registered a heartbeat. We all thought…
Abdel Rahman Darawsha, 26, shot by Israeli troops during a raid on Far’a refugee camp in the south of Tubas town.A young Palestinian has been killed after he was shot by Israeli troops during a raid on Far’a refugee camp in the south of Tubas town in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian authorities.Abdel Rahman Darawsha, 26, succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained when Israeli forces stormed the camp and opened live fire on Saturday night, the official Wafa news agency said, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Death toll in Gaza…
Nearly 1.3 million members of the security forces and more than 26,500 internally displaced people are eligible to vote ahead of Tuesday’s polls.Members of Iraq’s security forces and its internally displaced population have begun casting their ballots in the parliamentary elections – the sixth since a United States-led invasion toppled longtime ruler Saddam Hussein in 2003.Polls opened at 7am (04:00 GMT) on Sunday for 1.3 million members of the security forces at 809 polling centres and will close at 6pm (15:00 GMT) before they are deployed for security purposes on the election day on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist…
Visit comes as Syria announces launching a ‘large-scale operation’ targeting ISIL cells across the country.Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has arrived in the United States for an official visit, according to state media, during which Washington hopes to enlist Damascus in its global coalition against ISIL, or ISIS.Al-Sharaa’s arrival in the US capital came late on Saturday as Syria’s Ministry of Interior announced launching a “large-scale security operation” across the country, targeting ISIL cells.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Is Israel inching towards another regional war?list 2 of 4US removes Syrian president from global ‘terrorist’ sanctions listlist 3 of…
Israeli forces kill several people across Gaza, as settlers and Israeli military continue attacks in the occupied West Bank.Nearly a month after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, the death toll in Gaza is still rising amid reports of more killings, as the ongoing search for bodies from under the rubble continues.The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Saturday that the total number of people killed in the enclave since October 7, 2023, had risen to 69,169, after more of the dead were identified and more bodies recovered.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Gaza’s water turns poisonous…
UN estimates 82,000 of el-Fasher’s total population of 260,000 fled after RSF atrocities, with many still trapped.The United Nations Human Rights Office in Sudan says that “brutal attacks” are escalating in el-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city in the western region of Darfur last month.“Over the past 10 days, el-Fasher has witnessed an escalation of brutal attacks. It has become a city of grief,” Li Fung, the UN’s human rights representative in Sudan, said in a video published on X on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces agree to…