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Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara met Thursday with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and European Parliament Vice President Armin Laschet in the Syrian capital, Damascus.The meeting took place on the sidelines of a German-European delegation's visit to mark the reopening of the German embassy in Damascus.During a press conference in Damascus, the German Foreign Minister affirmed that the official opening of the German embassy today signifies a long-term commitment to Syria, and that its staff will gradually expand.She noted that Germany supports the political process in Syria to achieve peace for all its citizens.Baerbock said that her country will support Syria politically and economically and stand by the Syrian people, noting that the first steps towards unifying the country have been taken, and that the next steps should be achieved in partnership with all components of society.She said that her country pledged EURO 300 million during the Brussels conference as part of its efforts to achieve economic stability in Syria, and that the Syrian people need support and reconstruction.She noted that the political process in the country must include all components, sects, and ethnicity before refugees can return, and that Syria must belong to all Syrians.Regarding Israeli attacks on Syrian territory, Baerbock stressed the need for Israel to respect international law, noting that attacks on Syria and its territories threaten stability and contravene international law.She stated that gradually reducing European sanctions could help the Syrian economy, stressing that it is essential for the European Union (EU) to take gradual steps to ease sanctions in order to begin the reconstruction process. (

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes Thursday on areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.The Lebanese National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes fired four missiles at the area between Jbaa, Zahleti, and Sanya.They also raided the Shaara area on the eastern slopes of the mountain range within the town of Janta in the Bekaa, eastern Lebanon.Israeli warplanes also launched an airstrike on the outskirts of Taraya town, west of Baalbek.

The Israeli military said Wednesday its forces have resumed ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip, as a second day of airstrikes killed at least 38 Palestinians, according to local health workers.The renewed ground operations come a day after more than 400 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in one of the deadliest episodes since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023, shattering a ceasefire that has largely held since January.The Israeli military said its operations have extended Israel's control over the Netzarim Corridor, which bisects Gaza, and were a "focused" manoeuvre aimed at creating a partial buffer zone between the north and the south of the enclave.Palestinian resistance group Hamas said the ground operation and the incursion into the Netzarim Corridor were a "new and dangerous violation" of the two-month-old ceasefire agreement. In a statement, the group reaffirmed its commitment to the deal and called on mediators to "assume their responsibilities".The United Nations said an Israeli airstrike had killed a foreign staffer and wounded five workers at the site of a UN headquarters in central Gaza City Wednesday. But Israel denied this.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a full investigation and condemned all attacks on UN personnel. In Sofia, the foreign ministry said a Bulgarian working for the UN died on Wednesday in Gaza, citing preliminary information. Israel, which has vowed to eradicate Hamas, said its latest onslaught was "just the beginning".In the latest violence, local health workers said an Israeli airstrike killed four people and wounded 10 others in a house in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, where the army renewed evacuation orders to residents earlier on Wednesday.In Beit Lahiya, a new Israeli airstrike killed 14 people at a mourning tent, medics said.Earlier Wednesday, the Israeli army dropped leaflets in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, once again ordering residents to evacuate their homes.Defence Minister Israel Katz issued a video statement warning Gaza residents that evacuation from combat zones would begin shortly.He said airstrikes were "only the first step" and if the hostages were not released, "Israel will act with force you have not yet seen".European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday she told Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar that the situation in Gaza was "unacceptable".Jordan's King Abdullah called for the ceasefire to be restored and for aid flows to resume.

Bombardments resume after nearly two months of calmHamas and Israel accuse each other of breaking truceAt least six killed in airstrikes on Gaza on WednesdayIsraeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, local health workers said, as the Israeli military unleashed more bombardments of the enclave and ordered residents to evacuate combat zones.The United Nations said a foreign staffer was killed and five other workers were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the site of a UN headquarters in central Gaza City.Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the U.N. office for Project Services, said:"Israel knew that this was a UN premises, that people were living, staying and working there, it is a compound. It is a very well-known place.An explosive device was dropped or fired on the premises, he told a press conference in Brussels."This was not an accident," he said. "What's happening in Gaza is unconscionable."The Israeli military denied it had struck the UN compound in Deir al-Balah. It said it had hit a Hamas site in northern Gaza where it had detected preparations for firing into Israeli territory.The renewed bloodshed followed one of the deadliest days so so far in the Israeli assault on the Palestinian territory, with Israeli airstrikes killing more than 400 people on Tuesday, according to Palestinian health authorities.The fighting ended weeks of relative calm since a ceasefire in January largely paused the war between Israeli forces and Hamas and other groups. Israel said the onslaught was "just the beginning".Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching the truce, which had offered a respite for Gaza's 2.3 million residents after 17 months of war that has reduced the enclave to rubble and forced most of its population to evacuate multiple times.The Israeli campaign has killed more than 49,000 people in Gaza, Palestinian health authorities say, and caused a humanitarian crisis with shortages of food, fuel and water.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to resume bombardments has triggered protests in Israel as 59 hostages are still being held in Gaza, with 24 of them believed to be still alive.A coalition of hostage families and protesters against Netanyahu's moves against the judiciary and other parts of the security establishment has regrouped and accuses the prime minister of using the war for political ends.On Wednesday, the Israeli army dropped leaflets in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, ordering residents to evacuate their homes, warning they were in "dangerous combat zones"."Staying in the shelters or the current tent puts your lives and that of your family members in danger, evacuate immediately," read a leaflet dropped on Beit Hanoun.Netanyahu said on Tuesday he had ordered strikes because Hamas had rejected proposals to secure an extension of the ceasefire until April.Hamas accused Israel of jeopardising efforts by mediators to negotiate a permanent deal to end the fighting.European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday she told Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar that the situation in Gaza is "unacceptable".Jordan's King Abdullah called for the ceasefire to be restored and for aid flows to resume."Israel's resumption of attacks on Gaza is an extremely dangerous step that adds further devastation to an already dire humanitarian situation," he said on a visit to Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday called for restraint from all sides ahead of her trip to Lebanon to discuss the conflict."The resumption of fighting ... jeopardises the positive efforts of the Arab states, which together want to pursue a peaceful path for Gaza, free from Hamas," Baerbock said in a statement.Arab nations drew up a plan for peace and reconstruction in Gaza after a proposal from US President Donald Trump to resettle Palestinians and turn it into the "Riviera" of the Middle East triggered outrage in the region. However, the plan has not gained traction.In Wednesday's violence, three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City, while another airstrike left two men dead and wounded six others in Beit Hanoun town in the north, the Gaza health officials said.Palestinian medics said Israeli tank shelling on the Salahdeen road killed one Palestinian and wounded others, while an Israeli airstrike killed three people in a house in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave.

The State of Kuwait strongly condemned the recent Israeli occupation raids on Syrian territory, calling them a flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter.In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed Kuwait's stance on respecting Syria's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.The statement stressed the importance of the Security Council fulfilling its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security, and putting an end to the Israel's blatant violations, which threaten the security and stability of Syria and the entire region.

The death toll from Tuesday's airstrikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 429 after new 10 fatalities were reported.Medical sources said 170 children and more than 80 women were among the deaths from the Israeli occupation's raids on multiple areas of the war-torn enclave.The offensive, which violates the Gaza ceasefire deal that took effect on January 19, has left roughly 600 people injured, including critical cases.A spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza described the massacre perpetrated by the occupation forces since dawn today as one of the most horrific massacres ever committed, claiming such a large number of lives in a single day since May 2024.Mahmoud Basal explained that the Israeli occupation forces carried out over 100 attacks in a single moment across the enclave, with the bombing concentrating on inhabited homes, shelters, and tents housing displaced people.

The return to hostilities in Gaza must cease and humanitarian aid and commercial essentials be allowed to enter the embattled territory, the emergency relief co-ordinator for the United Nations said yesterday.UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher spoke at a UN Security Council briefing after Palestinian health authorities said Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza, killing more than 400 people, threatening the complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as Israel vowed to use more force to free hostages held by Hamas.“Overnight our worst fears materialised,” he said. “Airstrikes resumed across the entire Gaza Strip. Unconfirmed reports of hundreds of people killed ... once again, the people of Gaza are living in abject fear.”“Humanitarian workers remain on the ground ... ready to provide life-saving support to survivors and to carry out humanitarian operations,” Fletcher added. “We must be allowed to do so.”The UN official said that since March 2, Israeli authorities had cut off the entry of all lifesaving supplies – food, medicines, fuel, cooking gas – for 2.1mn people in Gaza and UN requests to collect aid sitting at Kerem Shalom crossing had been rejected.“This total blockade of life saving aid, basic commodities and commercial goods will have a disastrous impact on the people in Gaza who remain dependent on a steady flow of assistance into the strip,” he said.He said that the ceasefire had showed what was possible and enabled aid delivery.“We cannot and must not accept a return to pre-ceasefire conditions or the complete denial of the entry of humanitarian relief,” Fletcher said “Civilians must be protected, and their essential needs must be met. International law must be respected.”

An intense wave of Israeli strikes yesterday prompted deep concern for the more than 1mn children in the Gaza Strip who “are bearing the brunt of this war”, a Unicef spokeswoman said.“We are deeply, deeply worried. Children’s lives are at risk in so many ways,” Rosalia Bollen, a spokeswoman for the United Nations children’s fund, told AFP after “a really tough and frightening night for all of us” in Gaza.The overnight strikes were by far the deadliest since a truce took effect in January, largely halting more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.“There are more than 1mn children in Gaza, and they are bearing the brunt of this war,” said Bollen from Al Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip.The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said the strikes killed more than 400 people and separately reported 174 children killed.According to initial data collected by Unicef, they include “dozens and dozens of children, with many more children wounded”, said Bollen.AFP correspondents saw children’s bodies retrieved from bombarded buildings while the injured were taken to hospitals.Medical facilities “have already been decimated” by the war, Bollen said, noting severe shortages of antibiotics and other key supplies.“They may not be able to provide the care that severely injured children need ... they are overwhelmed.”Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza since March 2, describing the move as a bid to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages.Unicef was able to bring in some food supplies since a truce went into effect on January 19 but far from enough, Bollen said.“Children are worn out physically and mentally,” she said. “In the past six months, the children I’ve spoken to have told me how afraid they were of dying. They were very afraid their parents or siblings might die.”Some have been sleeping in makeshift tents or on the ground “in very dire conditions” and “many children have fallen ill”, added the spokeswoman.According to the United Nations, the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.4mn people have been displaced by the war, with children often staying for many months in makeshift shelters. – AFP

Most Gaza hospitals shutMedics describe burns and injuries Israel's sudden onslaught of air strikes overnight overwhelmed Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, medics and health authorities said on Tuesday, as ambulances ferried in hundreds of badly injured survivors. Video obtained by Reuters showed rescue workers running with stretchers across smoking debris, ambulances rushing to hospitals, a morgue full of bloodied bodies in white bags, and casualties lying outside while relatives mourned the dead. "We received no less than 400 cases in less than two hours," said Mohammad Qishta, a Medicins Sans Frontieres emergency doctor working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. "There were some serious cases such as burns ... third degree burns on the face, amputations, wounds on the head, wounds on the chest," he said. Gaza health authorities issued an urgent statement on Tuesday asking residents to donate blood, saying stocks of different blood types had been exhausted. Although a ceasefire came into effect in January, talks to transition to a second phase of the agreement stalled in February. Israel announced it was cutting off all aid, including medical supplies, into Gaza on March 2 over a dispute with Hamas on the next phase of the deal. "The entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said at the time. Tuesday morning's airstrikes, which Palestinian health authorities said killed more than 400 people, took place across the tiny, crowded Gaza Strip where the war has left most people homeless. Israel said it was resuming airstrikes in response to Hamas' rejection of its proposals for extending the ceasefire. The World Health Organisation spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said 20 of Gaza's 36 hospitals remained partially functional. However, far fewer were still able to handle surgery, aid agencies said. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Khalil Al-Deqran said only seven of the territory's hospitals were still providing services. Jasarevic said the shortage of medicines meant even in working hospitals medics might not be able to provide treatment. "The occupation did not allow the entry of medical equipment, devices and very necessary medical consumables to maintain what remains of the health system and functioning hospitals," Gaza hospitals director Mohammed Zaqout said. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which works with rescue and health services in Gaza, said its team in the territory had reported on Tuesday that medical facilities were overwhelmed. "The situation is rapidly deteriorating, even before the recent developments, because since the beginning of March we didn't get any other aid, any other medicine," the federation's spokesperson Tommaso Della Longa said. Even reaching casualties is more difficult because of damage to ambulances and a lack of fuel, said Shaina Low of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which is suspending most operations in Gaza because of the danger from strikes. "We've already seen the suspension of 20 ambulances in Gaza because of lack of petrol. We're going to see hospitals shutting down," she added.

European Council chief Antonio Costa on Tuesday called for an end to the renewed violence in Gaza, after Israel unleashed its most intense strikes since a truce established two months ago."Shocked and saddened by the news coming from Gaza and the many civilian casualties following the Israeli airstrikes last night," said Costa, who heads the body representing the bloc's 27 states."Violence must stop and the terms of the ceasefire agreement must be respected. All hostages and detainees must be released, and humanitarian aid must be resumed immediately," he wrote on X.The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said more than 400 people were killed after the strikes.Earlier the EU's aid chief called the fresh violence "devastating"."Civilians have endured unimaginable suffering. This must stop," commissioner Hadja Lahbib wrote on X, adding: "It is imperative to return to a ceasefire immediately".Saudi Arabia condemns Israel Gaza strikes 'in strongest terms'Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Israel's bombing of "unarmed civilians" after more than 400 people were killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.A foreign ministry statement voiced "Saudi Arabia's condemnation and denunciation in the strongest terms of the Israeli occupation forces' resumption of aggression... and their direct bombardment of areas populated by unarmed civilians".France condemns Israeli strikes on Gaza, urges 'immediate' end to hostilitiesFrance on Tuesday condemned Israel's renewed strikes on Gaza and urged an "immediate" end to the hostilities it says are endangering efforts to free the Israeli hostages held by Hamas and the lives of Palestinian civilians. "France condemns the Israeli strikes carried out since yesterday on the Gaza Strip, which have caused numerous civilian casualties," the French foreign ministry said after the strikes which killed 413 people according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. "France calls for an immediate end to hostilities, which are jeopardising efforts to free the hostages and threatening the lives of the civilian population in Gaza," it added.Russia condemns Israel's renewed strikes on GazaRussia on Tuesday condemned Israel's renewed bombardment of the Gaza strip, the deadliest since a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in January."Moscow deeply regrets Israel's resumption of its military operation in the Gaza Strip," the Russian foreign ministry said. "Russia strongly condemns any action that leads to the death of civilians and destruction of social infrastructure." The Kremlin said earlier it was concerned the strikes would lead to a "spiral of escalation". "We are monitoring the situation very closely and, of course, we are waiting for it to enter a peaceful course again," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.UK calls for restoration of ceasefire 'in full'The British government called on Israel and Hamas Tuesday to implement their ceasefire agreement for Gaza "in full", urging all parties to "return urgently to dialogue" to end fighting. "We want to see this ceasefire agreement re-established as soon as possible," said Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesman, adding that reported civilian casualties from Israeli strikes overnight were "appalling".

Strikes widest in scale since January ceasefire'It was a night of hell' says Gaza City residentIsraeli military says campaign will expandEgyptian mediators say they are working to salvage truceIsraeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, ending weeks of relative calm after talks to secure a permanent ceasefire stalled.Israel and Palestinian Hamas each accused the other of breaching the truce, which had broadly held since January, offering respite from war for the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza, where most buildings have been reduced to rubble.Hamas, which still holds 59 of the 250 or so hostages Israel says the group seized in its October 7, 2023 attack, accused Israel of jeopardising efforts by mediators to negotiate a permanent deal to end the fighting, but the group made no threat of retaliation.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered strikes because Hamas had rejected proposals to secure a ceasefire extension during faltering talks."Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength," the prime minister's office said in a statement.The strikes hit homes and tent encampments from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip, and Israeli tanks shelled from across the border line, witnesses said.Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 404 people had been killed in one of the biggest single-day tolls since the war erupted."It was a night of hell. It felt like the first days of the war," said Rabiha Jamal, 65, a mother of five from Gaza City."We were preparing to have something to eat before starting a new day of fasting when the building shook and explosions began. We thought it was over but war is back," she told Reuters via a chat app.Egypt and Qatar, mediators in the ceasefire deal along with the US, condemned the Israeli assault. Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani called for immediate international action to compel Israel to abide by the ceasefire agreement and return to negotiations. Russia expressed "deep regret" over the latest airstrikes and the UN human rights chief Volker Turk said he was "horrified".Witnesses contacted by Reuters said Israeli tanks shelled areas in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Bewildered children sat next to bagged-up belongings, ready to flee north again having returned to Rafah with the ceasefire.In hospitals strained by 15 months of bombardment, piles of bodies in white plastic sheets smeared with blood were stacked up as casualties were brought in. The health ministry said many of the dead were children, and 562 people were injured.Israel has halted aid deliveries into Gaza for over two weeks, exacerbating a humanitarian crisis.Among the Hamas officials killed in the airstrikes were Essam Addalees, the de facto head of the Hamas government, Ahmed Al-Hetta, deputy justice minister and Mahmoud Abu Watfa, the head of the Hamas-run security services, Hamas said.As Israel launched its operation in Gaza, its forces have pressed on with an operation in the occupied West Bank and Israeli jets have struck targets in southern Lebanon and Syria in recent days.Israeli media said Israel was opening shelters in multiple areas in commercial hub Tel Aviv to prepare for possible retaliatory attacks.Negotiating teams from Israel and Hamas had been in Doha as mediators from Egypt and Qatar sought to bridge the gap between the two sides after the end of an initial phase in the ceasefire, which saw 33 Israeli hostages and five Thais released in exchange for some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.With the backing of the United States, Israel had been pressing for the return of the remaining hostages in exchange for a truce until after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the Jewish Passover holiday in April.However, Hamas has insisted on moving to negotiations for a permanent end to the war and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces, under the terms of the original ceasefire agreement.On Tuesday, Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif Al-Qanoua told Reuters the group was still in touch with mediators, and it was keen to complete the implementation of the original deal.Egyptian mediators were engaged in intense contacts to salvage the ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources said.

Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced Tuesday that several people were killed and others were injured when a workers' transportation bus collided with a fuel Tanker on a road near the oil fields in the Western Desert.In a statement, the ministry emphasized that firefighter and ambulance vehicles from oil companies near the accident site were deployed and transported the injured to Marsa Matrouh Hospital.It pointed out that an emergency committee was formed to conduct a site inspection and determine the causes of the accident, in addition to providing the families of the deceased and injured with full support and following up on their cases.

The town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, has witnessed a mass exodus of thousands of Palestinians toward the adjacent town of Jabalia in search of safe shelter, in the wake of the resumption of the Israeli offensive in the Strip.The occupation forces issued an order to the residents to evacuate Beit Hanoun, as well as the towns of Khuzaa, Abasan al-Kabira, and Abasan al-Jadida in the south, and head to the areas west of Gaza City and Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.Medical sources in Gaza reported that the death toll from the Israeli shelling in various parts of Gaza reached 326 martyrs, mostly women and children who were sent to Gaza hospitals, while 660 others were injured, with several victims still trapped in bombed-out buildings.At dawn on Tuesday , the Israeli occupation forces resumed their onslaught on Gaza by launching a series of intense airstrikes and fire belts on multiple areas across the Strip.Since Oct.7, 2023, the unprecedented Israeli aggression against the Palestinian enclave killed over 48,572 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and the injury of 112,032 others, while several victims are trapped under the rubble.

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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for a firm international stance to ensure an immediate cessation of the Israeli occupation's aggression against the Gaza Strip, warning against the occupation's plans to displace the Palestinian people.In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Ministry affirmed that political solutions are the key to achieving calm, halting the aggression, and restoring a political space to resolve the conflict.It condemned the ongoing brutal attack on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, which has so far left more than 250 martyrs, dozens missing, and hundreds wounded, most of whom are children, women and elderly. (QNA)

The death toll from the intense airstrikes carried out by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip early Tuesday has risen to over 230 martyrs, with dozens of wounded, most of them children and women. Meanwhile, others remain under the rubble of targeted homes.A correspondent from Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are receiving dozens of martyrs' remains around the clock, as Israeli airstrikes continue in various parts of Gaza.Medical sources noted that around 60 martyrs were killed in the Israeli bombing of areas in southern Gaza. Furthermore, five martyrs, including two children, and dozens of injured individuals, were transported to the Kuwait Field Hospital after the Israeli bombing of several displacement tents in the Mawasii Khan Younis area.These sources also reported that 15 martyrs, including five children, and more than 20 injured individuals were brought to a hospital in Gaza City. Additionally, 14 martyrs were received at Al-Awda Hospital after airstrikes hit two tents in southern Gaza, along with more than 70 wounded, some in critical condition, who were injured from Israeli bombings on homes in the Nuseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza Strip.At Al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar in the Jabalia refugee camp, eight martyrs, including six children, and dozens of injured individuals arrived due to airstrikes on homes in northern Gaza. Several martyrs were also reported as a result of Israeli airstrikes on homes in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, in addition to the bombing of displacement tents in the Mawasi area.Several people were martyred, and others were injured after Israeli airstrikes targeted a school sheltering displaced people in Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City, as well as three houses in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood.For its part, civil defense sources in Gaza stated that there have been repeated calls to rescue people trapped under the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. The rescue teams, however, are unable to respond to these calls due to the lack of necessary equipment. Furthermore, rescue teams face significant challenges in reaching the targeted areas due to the ongoing heavy bombardment from Israeli aircraft and artillery.Israeli occupation forces have been conducting an aggressive assault on the Gaza Strip since Oct.7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of 48,577 Palestinians, the majority of whom are children and women. (

Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on eastern and southern Lebanon.Field sources reported a series of airstrikes launched by Israeli warplanes targeting the Litani River between Deir Mimas and Khardali and the Litani River between Zlaiya and Qaliya in southern Lebanon.For its part, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said that a series of Israeli airstrikes targeted Hama Labaya in the western Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, distributed over four airstrikes carried out by war drones, and a fifth carried out by an F16 warplane, without reporting any injuries.Warplanes and drones continue to fly over the Western Bekaa at low altitudes, accompanied by mock raids.One person was killed and three others were injured today in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon.

International donors pledged 5.8 billion euros ($6.3bn) in aid for Syria on Monday at a Brussels conference seeking to help set the war-torn country on the road to stability after Bashar al-Assad's ouster."Together we have pledged a total of 5.8bn euros in grants and loans," said EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica, adding that grants accounted for 4.2bn euros and loans 1.6bn

Houthi media said fresh US strikes hit Yemen yesterday, after huge crowds gathered in the conflict-torn country to protest earlier bombings targeting the group. Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many waving assault rifles, daggers or Qur’ans, chanted “Death to America, death to Israel!” in the capital Sanaa. There were also large crowds in Saada, birthplace of the Houthi movement, and demonstrations in Dhamar, Hodeida and Amran, footage from the Al-Masirah TV station showed. “Yemen will never back down — we defy the Americans, we defy the Zionists,” said a man shouting slogans to the Sanaa crowd, who chanted back: “We are the men of the Prophet (PBUH).” The protests came after the first US strikes on Yemen under President Donald Trump, aimed at ending the Houthis’ Red Sea harassment campaign.The strikes killed 53 people and wounded 98 on Saturday.The Al-Masirah channel and Saba press agency yesterday evening reported new US strikes in the Hodeida and Al-Salif regions.The Houthis launched scores of attacks on ships in the vital route during the Gaza war, claiming solidarity with the Palestinians.Earlier yesterday they said they had attacked the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier group twice within 24 hours. There was no comment from the United States. Washington has vowed to keep hitting Yemen until the rebels stop attacking shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, with Trump warning he would use “overwhelming lethal force”.

An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinian men in Gaza on Monday as they tried to gather firewood, medics said, with no sign of progress in renewed talks on sustaining a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas. In the latest bloodshed to underline the fragility of the Gaza war's three-stage truce, the three, all from the same family, had left their homes in central Gaza to collect the wood for cooking. That has become a daily task for many Gazans as Israel has continued to ban fuel, food, and medical goods from entering Gaza for over two weeks, residents said. At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza's Deir Al-Balah, relatives rushed to pay farewell to the three white-shrouded bodies. "They were targeted - and when their cousins and others in the area came to rescue them, the drone targeted them with bombs," said Jabr Abou Hajeer, the father of one of the victims. Later Monday, medics said an Israeli air strike killed a father and his son inside a school sheltering displaced families in Bureij camp, near the site of the earlier strikes, raising the day's death toll to five. The Israeli military said the strike hit two people who were attempting to plant a bomb in the ground near where forces operated in Bureij. Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, said Israel's "violations" could "undermine all efforts for de-escalation". He put the number of Palestinians killed since the January ceasefire at 150. Israel's suspension of goods entering Gaza for 16 days has increased pressure on Gaza's 2.3mn people, most of whom have been made homeless by the war. The suspension, which Israel said was aimed at pressuring Hamas in ceasefire talks, applies to food, medicine, and fuel imports. Several bakeries have recently closed and food prices are rising, while the electricity cut could deprive people of clean water. Israel wants to extend the first phase of the ceasefire mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US, a proposal backed by US envoy Steve Witkoff. Hamas says it will resume freeing hostages only under the second phase that was due to begin on March 2. Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said that while his group was complying with the terms of the truce, Israel "seeks to foil the agreement and impose new conditions". Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said negotiators had been instructed to be ready to continue talks based on the mediators' response to a US proposal for the release of 11 out of 59 living hostages still held, and half of the dead captives. Israel's assault on Gaza has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, displaced most of the population and reduced much of the territory to rubble.