Israeli war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 168th day — has killed at least 31,988 people and wounded 74,188 others, as Blinken huddles on Gaza with Arab diplomats in Cairo.
Israel plans to launch a ground offensive in Gaza's Rafah with or without the support of its close ally the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
After closing off access to Gaza following the attack on Oct. 7, Israel has since allowed in aid convoys amid growing international pressure to boost the amount of supplies to feed Gaza's 2.3 million people. Russia and China both exercised their veto against the resolution, which called for an"immediate and sustained ceasefire" lasting roughly six weeks that would protect civilians and allow for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
Around 120,000 Muslims performed the Friday prayer today at Al Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Azzam al Khatib, the director-general of the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem, told Anadolu. Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the area in the northern Jordan Valley was declared"state lands" as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel for Gaza truce talks.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Qatar to threaten Hamas with deportation from the capital Doha, home to senior Hamas members, in case the group does not agree on a ceasefire and prisoner swap deal to end the Israeli war in Gaza, CNN has reported.
"UNRWA improving its risk management, that is, preventing and initiating close monitoring for misconduct, provides sufficient guarantees for us at this point in time to continue our support," Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio said at a press conference in Helsinki. The war has pushed 85 percent of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while most of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.An Israeli military drone targeted and killed four Palestinian civilians with missiles in Al Sekka area in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Al Jazeera channel showed in a video aired on Thursday evening.
An Anadolu correspondent pointed out that several men and women were refused entry by Israeli forces, claiming they did not obtain the necessary permits. “The Israeli army and Shin Bet forces continue fighting in the area of Shifa Hospital,” the Israeli army said on X.It also claimed finding weapons in the area.
After a meeting of Australian and UK foreign and defence ministers in Adelaide, the allies issued a statement that stressed the"urgency of an immediate cessation of fighting in Gaza to allow aid to flow and hostages to be released".Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Israel to press for a truce in Gaza, ahead of a key UN Security Council vote on a US draft resolution calling for an"immediate" ceasefire.
In an op-ed published by the British daily The Guardian, Mary Lawlor evaluated the continued arms sales to Israel in the face of the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza. Video footage circulating on social media of a French-Israeli soldier insulting Palestinians that his unit tortured is “shocking and disgusting,” French Foreign Ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine has said.
"The European Council calls for an immediate humanitarian pause leading to a sustainable ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages and the provision of humanitarian assistance," the bloc said in the text published by the council. The latest version of the draft resolution, seen by Reuters news agency, says an"immediate and sustained ceasefire" lasting roughly six weeks would protect civilians and allow for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
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