Hamas fighters battle invading Israeli troops in parts of bombarded Gaza as Palestinian death toll surges above 9,060 and Arab leaders ramp up pressure on Israel and its ally US to end war — now in its 28th day.
UN-mandated human rights experts said "time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza." / Photo: ReutersThe United Nations humanitarian office said the cost of meeting the needs of people in besieged Gaza and the occupied West Bank was estimated at $1.2 billion.
While much attention has been focused on the war on Gaza,"the situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is alarming and urgent", UN human rights office spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell told a briefing in Geneva.Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar described Israel's actions in Gaza as"something approaching revenge", in some of the strongest criticism of Israel by a leader of a European Union member state.
Most of the injured are women and children, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, adding that the attack caused “extreme fear and panic among internally displaced civilians.”Thousands of cross-border Gaza resident workers and labourers in Israel and the occupied West Bank were sent back to Gaza, Reuters journalists said.
"As we continue working to stop this war we cannot ignore the wider context and the necessity to turn down the regional temperature that is approaching a boiling point," Noura al Kaabi, a minister of state for foreign affairs, told a policy conference in the capital, Abu Dhabi. “We got out today 74 American folks out that are dual citizens," Biden said in a brief exchange with reporters as he hosted Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader for an Oval Office meeting.
"Four cancer patients lost their lives today as a result of the Turkish Friendship Hospital stopping and being completely out of service due to the crisis of running out of fuel," the hospital's director, Subhi Skaik, toldHe noted that all of the hospital's patients were transferred to Dar al Salam Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
The letter — penned in 1917 by Britain's then-foreign secretary — still has implications for Palestinians today and reveals the West's historical…The United States has been flying surveillance drones over Gaza in search of detainees taken by Hamas when the Palestinian resistance group launched an unprecedented blitz on Israel on October 7, according to two US officials.
Two Palestinians were shot dead during an Israeli raid in El Bireh near the city of Ramallah, while a third was killed in the northern town of Qalqilya, the Palestinian ministry said.
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