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Baerbock said that she was also in Israel to speak to family members of German hostages BERLIN – German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday that she was in talks with Egypt and the United Nations on safe spaces for civilians in Gaza, who have been called upon by the Israeli army to move south in anticipation of a ground offensive. Speaking in the southern Israeli city of Netivot after talks with her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, Baerbock said that “capacity in southern Gaza is already overloaded … we are in discussion with the U.N., with Egypt and with…

Political and religious parties staged dozens of small demonstrations across the cities of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and the capital Islamabad Several thousand Pakistani Muslims protested across the country after Friday prayers against Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza in retaliation to Hamas attacks. Political and religious parties staged dozens of small demonstrations across the cities of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and the capital Islamabad, where US and Israeli flags were burned. Protester Shahid Husain, 47, said the leaders of Muslim nations were failing to stand up for Palestinians. “We came to the streets to make our rulers realise that they don’t need…

“Nothing can justify the horrific attacks Israel suffered last weekend,” the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statemen The massive Hamas attack on Israel cannot justify the “limitless destruction” of the Gaza Strip, the Red Cross said Friday, as Israel pounded the enclave. “Nothing can justify the horrific attacks Israel suffered last weekend… but those attacks cannot in turn justify the limitless destruction of Gaza,” the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement. Source: Zawya

“Our people in Gaza are going through genocide, and Gaza has become a disaster area,” Shtayyeh told a press conference Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Friday accused Israel of committing “genocide” in its war against Hamas militants in the blockaded Gaza Strip. “Our people in Gaza are going through genocide, and Gaza has become a disaster area,” Shtayyeh told a press conference in Ramallah. Source: Zawya

By Tareq Abu Azzoum in southern Gaza I’m right now at Al-Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. There is a very big crowd of people here who have been displaced from their homes, and are here to seek shelter. They don’t have any proper sources of energy, clean water and medical supplies. They are now sitting in different areas of the complex while trying to also get basic basic necessities from local supermarkets that can help them survive. Many of them face real danger of being killed in an Israeli air attack feel Al-Nasser is the best…

The death toll in Gaza has risen to 1900 with 7696 people injured since the beginning of the Israeli bombardment, according to the health ministry. The ministry said 14 Palestinian have been killed in the West Bank today, bringing the total killed in the occupied territory since Saturday to 49. Source: Aljazeera

The ministry noted that the repairs to address the damage in Aleppo have been successfully finished, whereas efforts to restore the facilities at Damascus airport are still in progress. The Syrian Transport Ministry has announced that Aleppo Airport in Syria is set to reopen on Saturday morning after being affected by an Israeli strike. “Tomorrow, on October 14, on Saturday morning, at 8 a.m. local time [11 a.m. GMT], Aleppo International Airport will resume operations,” the Syrian Transport Ministry said. The ministry noted that the repairs to address the damage in Aleppo have been successfully finished, whereas efforts to restore…

The G20 finance leaders are meeting on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meeting in Marrakech MARRAKECH, Morocco – Many emerging market countries are concerned about the impact on fuel prices due to the recent crisis in the Middle East, India’s finance minister said on Friday, detailing the discussions held by G20 finance leaders in Marrakech. Referring to the Israel-Hamas conflict, Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “The recent crisis in the Middle East, and concerns about fuel back again, are worries which many countries do hold and they have expressed as well.” The G20 finance leaders…

Al Jazeera’s Mazen Ibrahim, the Lebanon burea chief, has said he can clearly say that journalists had been targeted while reporting in southern Lebanon. “I can clearly say that we journalists were targeted on purpose,” Ibrahim said from Alma al Shaab in southern Lebanon, where Reuters journalist Issam Abdalla was killed in shelling and several others – including two Al Jazeera journalists – were wounded. “We were far from the confrontations…All of the journalists were wearing their safety kit. They all had press slogans on their chest and cars,” he said. Source: Aljazeera

The UN chief has called for humanitarian access to Gaza but has come short of calling for a ceasefire. “Moving more than 1 million people across a densely populated warzone to a place with no food, water or accommodation when the entire territory is under siege is extremely dangerous and in some cases simply not possible,” Guterres said during brief statements at UN headquarters in New York. Source: Aljazeera