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Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman on Saturday and emphasized the importance of working toward a cease-fire in Gaza and stopping Israeli aggression in southern Lebanon, Lebanon state news agency said.Mikati also stressed Lebanon’s commitment to international legitimacy and the implementation of UN Resolution 1701, calling on the international community to pressure Israel to cease its violations.Blinken, in turn, emphasized his efforts to halt military operations for humanitarian reasons and to address the issue of prisoners. Source: Arab News

Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be resolved through peaceful means based on relevant UN resolutions, 2-state solution, says declaration Leaders of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) on Friday expressed concern over the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, and condemned all attacks targeting civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. A joint declaration, adopted at the 10th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States held in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, called on all parties to the conflict to declare an “immediate cease-fire to protect civilians and to provide immediate and unhindered humanitarian aid throughout the Gaza Strip.” The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only…

The remarks appeared designed to signal readiness to escalate attacks on Hamas JERUSALEM – The Israeli air force is bringing less than half of its capabilities to bear in the Gaza war, military chief Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi said in a televised statement on Thursday. The remarks appeared designed to signal readiness to escalate attacks on Hamas, and against the Palestinian faction’s allies in Lebanon and elsewhere, if Israel deems that necessary. Source: Zawya

 Hundreds of Yemenis protested at a rally in Sana’a on Friday, November 3, in support of the Palestinians, as the Israeli regime conducted a ground offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip. Source: Press TV

‘In none of these cases is the UN the one with the fingers on the trigger,’ UN spokesman Dujarric says The UN on Friday called for “full respect for international law,” emphasizing that hospitals should not be targeted in combat, following reports of an Israeli airstrike on the main gate of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In response to a question by an Anadolu reporter about whether the UN is working on a plan to enforce international law and prevent Israel from targeting health facilities, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated, “We continue to call for the full respect of international…

OCHA had originally sought $294 million in aid to support nearly 1.3 million people in an appeal on October 12 The UN on Friday launched an emergency aid appeal seeking $1.2 billion to help some 2.7 million people in Gaza and the West Bank. “The cost of meeting the needs of 2.7 million people — that is the entire population of Gaza and 500,000 people in the occupied West Bank — is estimated to be $1.2 billion,” the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. OCHA had originally sought $294 million in aid to support nearly 1.3 million…

Witnesses said the strike hit Gaza’s coastal road, which the Israeli military has previously told civilians to take to travel south The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Friday that an Israeli strike killed 14 Palestinians who were fleeing from the bombarded territory’s north to its south. “The occupation committed a new massacre against displaced civilians and killed 14 citizens, children and women,” ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a statement. Witnesses said the strike hit Gaza’s coastal road, which the Israeli military has previously told civilians to take to travel south. Source: Zawya

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre reaffirms that Mogadishu will not “heed to pressure” and maintains that Hamas is an “Islamic liberation organization.” “Hamas is an Islamic liberation organization and freedom fighters struggling to liberate the Palestinian land and people,” said Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre during a speech before he stressed that Somalia refuses to call Hamas a “terrorist organization” or to “heed to pressure.” “We will not accept to call it a terror group,” Abdi Barre added, explaining that “the Muslim world has been divided, made enemies of each other, and forced to call Hamas a terrorist…

In the same speech he repeated his call for “humanitarian pauses” in the enclave to help aid deliverie The United Nations aid chief said on Friday that there had been “some progress” in ongoing negotiations to allow fuel into the Israeli-besieged Gaza strip for the first time since hostilities began on Oct. 7. “I heard just this morning as I came in, there has been some progress on allowing some more fuel in through these negotiations,” Martin Griffiths told a meeting at the United Nations in New York, referring to ongoing negotiations between the global body, Israel, Egypt and the…

Hamas’s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh has issued a statement decrying the latest Israeli attacks on ambulances and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. “These massacres are a reflection of the predicament the occupation and its ground forces find themselves in as they are combated by our resistance fighters, who are defending our land and avenging thousands of martyrs,” Haniyeh said. He said the “resistance will continue to defend our people with all its might”. Haniyeh also called on neighbouring Egypt to fully open the Rafah border crossing and called on people in the region and the world to “continue…