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The Permanent Representative of Malta Vanessa Frazier added that the participants discussed what could be done to protect the civilians and to stop the violence The UN Security Council discussed the situation around the Gaza Strip, but did not attempt to adopt any joint document, the participants said after the Council meeting. “We did not discuss any joint statement, but no one proposed any text anyway,” the Permanent Representative of Malta Vanessa Frazier told reporters. She added that the participants discussed what could be done to protect the civilians and to stop the violence. US Alternate Permanent Representative Robert Wood…

On the announcement that Israel has called up 300,00 reservists, Wilhelm Marx, reporting from West Jerusalem, adds that it is clear that the government is trying to recruit as many people as possible for a potential ground invasion. “Many people here in Israel served in the military as part of their national service during their late teens and early 20s. Those called up remain in that reserve corps to serve in what may be a very significant conflict in the days ahead,” he said. Source: Aljazeera

A Palestinian identified as Ahmad Khaled Abu Turki, 28, was killed today and others wounded when Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a vehicle they were riding south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent. He said the soldiers also attacked him and a WAFA driver, as well as other Palestinian reporters, broke their cameras, including WAFA cameras, and opened fire at them and other reporters. Source: WAFA

Dozens of people were killed, all civilians, in a new Israeli massacre when Israel warplanes fired missiles at a market and a mosque homes in Shati and Jabalya refugee camps in the north of the Gaza Strip, reported WAFA correspondent. He said the warplanes fired several missiles at a mosque in the center of Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, killing and wounding a number of people and causing heavy destruction to homes in the area, as well as the infrastructure. Warplanes also fired missiles at the market area in the center of Jabalya refugee camp hitting an area known…

We’re hearing more from Refaat al Areer, a Gaza resident, who earlier told Al Jazeera that the Israeli bombing of the besieged enclave did not stop “even for a minute” overnight. “Every Palestinian in Gaza is a target. We go outside just to buy necessary food items, especially for the kids. Almost everybody is inside because it is not safe even inside. Israel can still target and kill people wherever they are. “Israel is displacing forcibly by bombing areas and ordering people to leave. There is no place that is safe for Palestinians on the Gaza Strip.” Source: Aljazeera

Israeli air attacks have targeted two refugee camps in the besieged Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed reports. The “two massive raids” hit the Jabalia and al-Shati refugee camps, ElSayed said. A mosque in al-Shati was also struck, she added. Dozens of casualties have been brought to Gaza City’s main hospital, Al-Shifa. Source: Aljazeera

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a graduation ceremony of Military Academy Cadets in Homs. ‘We strongly condemn the recent terrorist attack on military academy in Syria as a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and a peaceful life, and we express deep sympathy with the victim’s families’, DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said. He went on saying that this act of aggression was triggered by the hostile forces inside and outside Syria, which seek to create a state of chaos in the country, and thus obstruct the Syrian government’s efforts to resolve the crisis and to…

The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank rose to 508 and 2,800 wounded since Saturday, today said the Palestinian Ministry of Health. It said 493 were killed in air strikes in the Gaza Strip and 2,751 wounded, including 91 children and 61 women, while the toll in the West Bank governorates reached 15, including two minors, and about 80 wounded. The Ministry of Health said four were killed, including a minor, in Jerusalem, two in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, four in the Hebron Governorate, two in the Nablus governorate, two in…

A United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school sheltering more than 225 people displaced families in the Gaza Strip was directly hit today in an Israeli air strike, causing severe damage but no casualties, said a UNRWA press release. The number of people forced to flee their homes in search of safety since the start of the Israeli attacks on Gaza on Saturday has significantly increased overnight. Nearly 74,000 displaced people are now in 64 UNRWA shelters, with numbers likely to increase as heavy shelling and airstrikes continue including on civilian areas. UNRWA teams are providing…

Iran has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces raged following a weekend assault on Israel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday. “Tehran has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss regional developments,” spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said. Iran said it was not involved in the attacks in which 700 Israelis were killed and dozens more abducted by the militant group Hamas. More than 400 Palestinians have also been killed. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there was no evidence…