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According to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara has sent two planes and two civilian ships with humanitarian aid for Gazans, transferring the sick and the wounded to Turkey for medical treatment ISTANBUL, December 5. /TASS/. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is using the military operation in Gaza to extend its political life, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “The Netanyahu administration is committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, in a bid to extend its political life while putting the security of our entire region in danger,” Erdogan said at a summit of Persian Gulf countries in Doha, as cited by the…

“We reiterate our call for an international investigation into the massacres committed by Israel,” Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani added DUBAI, December 5. /TASS/. The right to self-defense does not justify Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said at the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Doha. “The principle of self-defense does not apply to the conditions of the occupation and does not allow acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “We reiterate our call for an international investigation into the massacres committed by Israel.” The Gulf Cooperation Council…

“Apart from that, the war criminals of the Israeli regime should be tried in international courts and punished,” Hossein Amir Abdollahian stressed MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian believes the global community needs to impose an embargo on Israeli-made goods and hold Israel accountable for its crimes in the Gaza Strip. “It is necessary to halt energy exports to Israel and impose an embargo on goods manufactured in Israel – this is the least we can do to show that we are with the people of Gaza,” he said at a meeting of top diplomats from…

The Turkish leader also rebuked Western nations for giving Israel “unconditional support to kill babies” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has predicted that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu will eventually face war crimes charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his country’s offensive in Gaza, as he condemned Western inaction throughout Israel’s ongoing military action in the besieged enclave. More than 15,800 people, mostly women and children, have so far been killed in Israeli air and ground attacks in Gaza after Netanyahu vowed to “eliminate Hamas” in response to the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 cross-border attack, which killed about 1,200 people…

The IOF has told the World Health Organization to abandon the facility The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) has notified the World Health Organization that its personnel must evacuate a medical warehouse in southern Gaza, WHO head Dr. Tedros Adhenom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. The WHO has asked the country’s military to reconsider. Israeli troops resumed operations in the Palestinian enclave on Saturday, targeting the south of Gaza after a humanitarian ceasefire with Hamas expired. The IDF sent the WHO a note to “remove our supplies from our medical warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours, as ground operations will put it…

A rocket attack early in the conflict sparked a fire at the Sdot Micha base housing “sensitive weaponry,” the newspaper reports A rocket fired by Palestinian militants during the Hamas attack on October 7 struck an Israeli military base believed to store nuclear-capable missiles, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing an analysis of satellite imagery. According to NASA data used to detect wildfires and reviewed by the paper, one missile, most likely launched by Hamas, struck the Sdot Micha base in central Israel in the early hours of the conflict. The bombardment apparently did not hit any projectiles…

The humanitarian situation is “worsening by the hour” as Israel escalates its offensive, according to the agency’s chief in the enclave Palestinians in Gaza have been left with virtually nowhere to go as the Israeli army continues its offensive in the enclave following the end of a truce with Hamas, a UN official has said. The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) is shifting its focus to the southern part of Gaza and has urged the population to evacuate. However, Palestinians and human rights groups have condemned the move after the area was initially declared a safe zone when Israel launched retaliatory…

The plan could spell a humanitarian disaster for water-stressed Gaza, the newspaper says Israel is considering using seawater to flood the extensive network of tunnels under Gaza, used by Hamas militants to smuggle goods in and out of the Palestinian enclave, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources. According to US officials interviewed by the paper, the Israeli military assembled an extensive flooding system not far from the Al-Shati refugee camp in northwest Gaza in mid-November. The unit reportedly consists of five pumps capable of drawing thousands of cubic meters of water per hour from the Mediterranean Sea,…

The group has been actively investing in the development of its assets in Bulgaria for more than 20 years, with investments in the Burgas refinery having surpassed $3.4 bln MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Lukoil has started reviewing its strategy regarding assets in Bulgaria, with sale of the business not ruled out, the Russian oil major said in a statement. “In view of the significant change in the operating conditions of the Lukoil Group companies in Bulgaria, the company has commenced work to review its strategy with respect to this asset. Various options will be analyzed with the involvement of international…

It is noted that transactions will be carried out from December 7, 2023 to January 12, 2024, with daily purchases of foreign currency and gold equaling 11.7 bln rubles MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Russia’s federal budget may receive 362 bln rubles ($3.9 bln) worth of additional oil and gas revenues in December 2023, according to a statement released on the Finance Ministry’s website. “Additional oil and gas revenues of the federal budget are projected at 362 bln rubles in December 2023. The deviation of virtual oil and gas revenues from the expected monthly amount of oil and gas revenues amounted…