Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud, now in Turkiye, will attend an extraordinary meeting of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah on March 5 to discuss the continued Israeli aggression against Palestinian people. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold the meeting at the headquarters of its General Secretariat in Jeddah,
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Israeli strike kills 3 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon
Fears grow for crucial Gaza hospital after Israeli raid
Fears mounted Saturday for people trapped in one of Gaza's main hospitals after Israeli troops raided the facility and the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said several patients had died there from a lack of oxygen. The ministry said late Friday that at least 120 patients and five medical teams were stuck
Israeli siege has placed Gazans at risk of starvation
The stories of hunger emerging from war-ravaged Gaza are stark: People resorting to grinding barely edible cattle feed to make flour; desperate residents eating grass; reports of cats being hunted for food. The numbers involved are just as despairing. The world’s major authority on food insecurity, the IPC Famine Review Committee,
Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 11 civilians
Eleven people, including six children, were killed by Israeli strikes on villages across southern Lebanon on Wednesday, a hospital director and three Lebanese security sources said, as Israel said it responded to a Hezbollah rocket attack that killed one of its soldier. Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire
Hezbollah official wounded in Israeli strike on Lebanon: security source
An Israeli air strike on Monday seriously wounded a local Hezbollah official in his car in Lebanon's south, a Lebanese security source told AFP. Lebanese movement Hezbollah also said four of its fighters were killed in an Israeli strike. Israeli forces and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily fire since war
Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza HQ, Israeli military says
Israeli forces have discovered a tunnel network hundreds of metres (yards) long and running partly under UNRWA's Gaza headquarters, the military says, calling it new evidence of Hamas exploitation of the main relief agency for Palestinians. Army engineers took reporters for foreign news outlets through the passages at a time of
Egypt steps up security on border as Israeli offensive in Gaza nears
Egypt has sent about 40 tanks and armoured personnel carriers to northeastern Sinai within the past two weeks as part of a series of measures to bolster security on its border with Gaza, two Egyptian security sources said. The deployment took place ahead of the expansion of Israeli military operations around
Syria says Israeli airstrikes over Homs have killed and wounded civilians
Israeli airstrikes over the central city of Homs and nearby areas killed and wounded civilians, the Syrian military said Wednesday. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Syrian state news agency SANA quoted an unidentified military official as saying the strikes late Tuesday damaged both private and public property, without giving additional
Australia, Canada suspend UN agency funding after Israeli allegations
Australia and Canada have suspended their funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, after Israel accused several employees of involvement in Hamas's October 7 attack. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday she was "deeply concerned" by the allegations against the agency, UNRWA. "We are speaking with partners and will