Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has identified the female employee killed by the Israeli army as Hidaya Hamad, director of its Youth and Volunteers Department in Gaza. The medical organisation reported earlier that the Israeli army had opened fire on its building in Khan Younis. Source: AlJazeera

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The Palestinian Prisoners Society says 25 Palestinians have been detained overnight during Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank. Eleven of them are from Baqat al-Hatab in Qalqilya while the rest are from Jenin, Hebron, Tubas, Tulkarem and Jerusalem. Those detained include a woman, minors and one injured Palestinian. These arrests increase the number of Palestinians detained in the occupied territory since October 7 to 6,485. Source: AlJazeera

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported today that more than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of its ambulance crew, consisting of paramedics Yusuf Zaino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun, remains unknown. The paramedics had embarked on a rescue mission to save 6-year-old Hind Rajab, who was trapped in her family’s car after an Israeli shelling. The Red Crescent urgently appealed to the international community to intervene and exert immediate pressure on Israeli occupation authorities to disclose the fate of both the missing child, Hind, and the ambulance crew deployed to rescue her. The incident unfolded when Hind was traveling with…

The sum should compensate damage sustained by the country, the Ukrainian president’s top economic adviser has said

Hundreds of European and American officials have signed a letter to their governments denouncing Israel’s war on Gaza as “one of the worst human catastrophes of this century”. The statement – titled It Is Our Duty To Speak Out When Our Governments’ Policies Are Wrong – denounced policies that “weaken” their nations’ “moral standing” in the world. “Israel has shown no boundaries in its military operations in Gaza, which has resulted in tens of thousands of preventable civilian deaths, and the deliberate blocking of aid by Israel has led to a humanitarian catastrophe, putting thousands of civilians at risk of…

LONDON: Oil prices rose slightly on Friday after the decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known as OPEC+, to keep its production policy unchanged, but benchmarks remained on track for weekly losses on China demand growth fears, according to Reuters.

Last week, Josep Borrell announced that EU foreign ministers had agreed to set up its own mission in the Red Sea. EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell voiced confidence on Friday that the bloc’s operation in the Red Sea to deter attacks from the Yemeni Armed Forces will gain final approval from the EU Foreign Affairs Council on February 19. In his opening speech at the 3rd EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels, he expressed that “Aspides [the EU mission in the Red Sea] will not conduct any operation on land, only to protect navigation at sea.” In mid-January, Borrell…

LONDON: Gold prices were poised for their biggest weekly gain in nine weeks on Friday as the dollar and Treasury yields retreated, while traders awaited key US jobs data due later in the day for clues on when the Federal Reserve could start rate cuts, according to Reuters.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s financial sector’s training market is set to hit SR1 billion ($266.6 million) by the year 2026, according to the Financial Academy.