Israel increases air strikes on Palestine's Gaza, seals it off and precludes it from food, water and other vital supplies as the war's death toll rises past 1,800 on its fourth day.
The Palestinian death toll has risen in Gaza to 830 amid ongoing Israeli air strikes in the territory, the Health Ministry said. / Photo: AFPPalestine has accused Israel of using phosphorus incendiary weapons in bombing populated areas in besiged Gaza.
The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch had earlier cited reports of Israel’s use of white phosphorus bombs in Gaza during past conflicts.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have discussed the course of the current"worrying" conflict between Israel and Palestine.
The group carried out a"rocket bombardment" on Israel's western Galilee area, according to the statement published on the Hamas channel on the Telegram messaging app, adding the group was"fulfilling its duty". Warning that disproportionate attacks could lead the situation into further stalemate, Erdogan told Guterres that it is very important for the parties to act with restraint and avoid impulsive steps.EU foreign ministers have urged Israel not to cut"water, food, or electricity" to Gaza and urged humanitarian corridors for those trying to flee the territory, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
"Most of them are taking shelter in UNRWA schools, at least two of which have already been damaged by airstrikes in the area," it added.Nigeria has airlifted more than 300 of its citizens back home after they fled to Jordan from Israel where they were on a Christian pilgrimage, Lagos state government said.
The agency also echoed a call by the World Health Organization for a humanitarian corridor to provide aid to Gaza.Türkiye’s national flag carrier Turkish Airlines has announced the suspension of flight service to Israel due to recent developments in the region. A ministry statement said that 4,250 other Palestinians were injured in the Israeli bombardment. An earlier statement by the ministry put the death toll at 780, including 770 Palestinians and 18 in the occupied West Bank.
"A thorough review will be conducted to ensure that no Danish funding is misused to indirectly support terrorist organisations that attack Israel," it said.Greece has evacuated 90 of its citizens who were stranded in Israel due to heavy fighting in the Middle Eastern country. "Millions of people, including many children, in the Palestinian territories, depend on us for food, water and medicine," she added.A salvo of rockets has been fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel, three security sources told Reuters, in the third consecutive day of violence along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
In Iraq, Hadi Al Amiri, a powerful Iraqi politician close to Iran and a key figure in the cross-party alliance backing the Baghdad government, also threatened to target American assets, in comments made during a tribal gathering in the capital. A previous statement by the ministry put the death toll at 765 Palestinians, including at least 143 children and 105 women.Four Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, media unions and officials said, as heavy bombardment raged for a fourth day.
In separate statements, the Israeli military confirmed killing of Abu Shammala and Abu Maamar, saying they had been struck overnightFrance has turned down calls to completely suspend European aid for the Palestinian people. A statement for the weekly meeting of the government carried by the official news agency said that the kingdom will"continue its support for the Palestinian people to secure its legitimate rights and achieve the just and lasting peace".
It was the second time the crossing had been hit since Israel launched a ferocious bombardment of Gaza. The previous strike on Monday had briefly halted passage through the crossing, a security source and witnesses said.Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has said that he feared the conflict in Gaza may spread to neighbouring countries and last at least 10 more days.
The ICRC said that without immediate restraint, the conflict was heading towards a humanitarian disaster in which civilians would pay the highest price.Putin has said the Israel-Gaza conflict showed the"failure" of Washington's Middle East policy and called the creation of"an independent sovereign Palestinian state" a"necessity".
"There is already clear evidence that war crimes may have been committed in the latest explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza, and all those who have violated international law and targeted civilians must be held accountable for their crimes," said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel.
Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said people's dignity and lives had to be respected as he called for all sides to defuse the"explosive powder-keg situation". In his announcement on X, Josep Borrell said he has invited Israel’s Eli Cohen to join the meeting and asked Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki to “address the meeting and present the views of the Palestinian Authority.”Israeli attacks have destroyed seven mosques in Gaza since Saturday, with the latest being the Al Abbas Mosque, which was attacked by rockets from Israeli warplanes.
As the Israeli military activated 300,000 reservists in a massive mobilisation, a major question was whether it would launch a ground assault into the tiny Mediterranean coastal territory. The last ground assault was in 2014.The Palestine soccer team has withdrawn from a tournament in Malaysia amid ongoing fighting between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, the Football Association of Malaysia has said.
Unverified footage shared by the Australian Jewish Association and featured on Sky News appeared to show a small group outside the Opera House lighting flares and chanting"Gas the Jews".New South Wales state police told a news conference it was reviewing footage from the protest to determine if offences were committed.
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