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According to the deputy head of the department, Alexey Serko, on November 13, 99 people, including 43 children, passed through the checkpoint MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. The second group of Russians that were evacuated from the Gaza Strip will be flown to Moscow on Tuesday, Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Alexey Serko said. “Today, 99 people, including 43 children, have passed the crossing. We expect these people to be flown to the Domodedovo airport by an Emergency Situations Ministry plane tomorrow,” he told reporters. Source: Tass

The group of citizens was evacuated through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, Spain’s acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said. They are part of a group of between 140 and 170 Spaniards and members of their families, some with dual citizenship, who had asked to be evacuated. Albares also said that Spain had received authorisation from Israel for a second contingent of around 80 people to leave Gaza on Tuesday. Source; AlJazeera

“The UN is a waste of space because this organization has done nothing positive for Israel in our conflict,” Alexander Ben Zvi said MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. The United Nations is unlikely to help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi said on Monday. “I doubt that the UN will be able to resolve our conflict because up to now I haven’t seen a single conflict settled by the United Nations,” he said. “The UN is a waste of space because this organization has done nothing positive for Israel in our conflict.” Tensions flared up again…

The announcement comes after the United Nations agency’s Gaza chief said staff in Gaza earlier today warned that the humanitarian operation in Gaza would “grind to a halt” if no fuel is allowed into the enclave. “Our trucks have run out of fuel,” Thomas White wrote on X. “We will not be able to receive aid coming thru Rafah crossing tomorrow”. White earlier said fuel is also needed to produce clean drinking water, pump sewage and power hospitals. Source: AlJazeera

Sullivan has said that he cannot make a legal determination as to whether Israel is abiding by the laws of war, but he stressed that the US position is that the Israeli army should to distinguish between fighters and civilians. “I am not in a position to give you a legal determination to your question,” the White House national security adviser said when asked about possible Israeli war crimes. “What I’m in a position to do is to state the US government position on how the Israeli operation should be conducted.” He added that Israel has a responsibility to “act…

Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip is reportedly costing the Tel Aviv regime led by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu around $260 million every day. Israel’s war on Gaza has become “more expensive … than first predicted,” putting a strain on Tel Aviv’s public finances, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The Israeli finance ministry announced plans to borrow 75 percent more in November than last month as it has already seen the war inflict an economic toll of almost $8 billion, the report said. The Netanyahu regime, it added, is increasingly turning to bonds to pay for the Gaza onslaught. Israel’s offensive against Gaza has sent…

In his brief remarks to reporters in the Oval Office earlier, Joe Biden also said an effort is under way to secure the release of captives held in Gaza. “That’s being negotiated, as well. The Qataris are engaged and so I remain somewhat hopeful,” the US president said. During a news conference at the White House, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that freeing the captives is a priority for Biden and his top aides. “We have all spoken with families of US citizens who are being held hostage by Hamas and have raised this issue with all of…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad said that the Zionist racist entity did not leave any red line without crossing it, an international agreement, or international humanitarian law without violating it, or a war crime without committing it in the ongoing crime against Gaza. Miqdad twitted on X platform that groups which claim commitment to human rights, the rules-based world, and international law did not leave an occasion without shamelessly expressing their support for “Israel” in every way, as they operationally supported all the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Zionist fascism against the Palestinians in Gaza and…

Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin has warned Israel against escalating tensions with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement amid the regime’s onslaught in the Gaza Strip, a report says. Axios reported that Austin’s warning, which was made on Saturday, came amid fears that escalating tensions on the border separating Lebanon from Occupied Palestine could lead to a regional war that would draw the US further into the conflict. According to the report, a US source said the White House asked Austin to express concern to Israel’s minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant about escalating provocations in Lebanon. In the public readout of the Austin-Gallant call,…

The ship, which docked earlier today, is carrying the equipment necessary to set up field hospitals on the Egyptian side of the border with Gaza. Some 500 tonnes of aid equipment has been shipped, according to Anadolu Agency, including medicine, medical devices, and 20 ambulances. “The main issue here is going to be how do you get Palestinians [in] Gaza, not just from the north to the south, but how do you get them to cross through the Rafah crossing to these field hospitals,” said Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem. “Turkey has said that it is…