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The Lebanese caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, made a phone call to the UNIFIL Commander, Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, and expressed his solidarity. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati’s office said today that he has condemned the Israeli drone attack on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which has led to the injury of several observers in the border town of Rmesih, near the Lebanese-Palestinian border. “Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, made a phone call to the UNIFIL Commander, Maj. Gen. Aroldo Lazaro Saenz, expressing his solidarity with the international forces after the attack on a UNIFIL vehicle…

Thousands of Palestinian citizens rallied Friday for an end to the Gaza war as they marked Land Day, an annual commemoration of a deadly 1976 crackdown on protests against Israeli land seizuresThe protesters, led by Arab members of the Israeli parliament, marched through the northern town of Deir Hanna waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners reading: “Stop the war on Gaza.”Most of the demonstrators were Arab citizens of Israel — Palestinians who evaded displacement during the 1948 war that led to Israel’s creation and who, with their descendants, now constitute around 21 percent of its population.A smaller contingent of Jewish…

A senior Palestinian resistance leader said that the Palestinian people could not stand against Israel if not for Iran’s full support. Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement Ziyad al-Nakhaleh made the remarks at a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran on Saturday. He praised Iran’s important role in supporting the resistance of the Palestinian people since the start of Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Gaza in early October 2023. Iran’s active diplomacy played a leading role in clarifying the position of Palestine’s resistance, he added. The Islamic Jihad leader emphasized that…

Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, who chairs the NATO Military Committee, said he currently saw no indication that Russia may be planning an attack on any NATO country. “There is no indication that Russia is planning to attack any NATO member state. I do not think there is a direct threat,” The Baltic Times quoted Bauer as saying. However, he claimed that Russia’s ambitions “go beyond Ukraine.” We know that, so the Alliance as a whole needs to be more prepared,” he emphasized. The North Atlantic Alliance can trigger its Article 5 only in the event of a direct attack, he…

Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals, the head of the WHO said Saturday.“With only 10 hospitals minimally functional across the whole of #Gaza, thousands of patients continue to be deprived of health care,” World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X.Before the war, Gaza had 36 hospitals, according to the WHO.“Around 9,000 patients urgently need to be evacuated abroad for lifesaving health services, including treatment for cancer, injuries from bombardments, kidney dialysis and other chronic conditions,” he said.That is…

A shipment of aid carrying almost 400 tonnes of food for Gaza has left Cyprus’s Larnaca port, marking the second time a maritime corridor is used to transfer humanitarian assistance to the besieged Palestinian enclave. An aid ship operated by the Spanish NGO Open Arms offloaded 200 tonnes of food aid on March 16, which was distributed by the charity World Central Kitchen (WCK). The mission was financed mainly by the UAE and received the support of the Cypriot authorities. Source: AlJazeera

The death toll in Israeli air strikes on Syria has risen to 52, including 38 government soldiers and seven members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, a war monitor said Saturday.Friday’s strikes fueled concerns of a wider regional conflagration.They targeted “a rocket depot belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah” near the Aleppo airport in northern Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.It was the latest deadly raid on Iran-backed forces in Syria, where Hezbollah has been backing the government in its fight against opponents since the 2011 Syria civil war erupted.Israeli strikes on targets in Syria have increased since Israel’s war…

The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s department in the Moscow Region has revised the number of people injured in last week’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall upward to 551. “As of 6:00 a.m. Moscow time (3:00 a.m. GMT – TASS) on March 30, 2024, there were 695 casualties, including 15 children, in the terrorist attack, of whom 144 people, including five children, have been killed,” the ministry said in a statement. Health officials told TASS that the majority of people hurt in the attack have been receiving outpatient treatment. On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the music…

Employees of over 130 diplomatic missions took part in the mourning flower laying ceremony on at the makeshift memorial at the Crocus City Hall in remembrance of the victims of March 22 attack on March 30, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its state protocol. “The memorial event was attended by heads and employees of over 130 diplomatic missions (over 250 people)” the message reads. “We are deeply grateful to honorable representatives of the diplomatic corpus for their solidarity with the Russian people at such a difficult hour.” The mourning ceremony, which started with a minute of silence, was attended…

A new report says the administration of US President Joe Biden has authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel in recent days amid the regime’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza. Pentagon and State Department officials said the new arms packages include more than 1800 bombs, The Washington Post reported. According to the report, these are 2000-pound devices that can demolish entire city blocks and are rarely used in populated areas. Israel, however, has used them extensively in Gaza. Some Democrats, including allies of President Biden, say the US government has a responsibility to…