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The scene outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as victims from the strike on Gaza’s Al-Maghazi refugee camp arrive
At least 13 killed, including 7 children, after strike on Gaza’s Al-Maghazi refugee camp
GAZA — At least 13 people were killed, including seven children, and more than 25 injured after a strike targeted Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Tuesday, as Israel continues its bombardment of the Palestinian territory.Graphic video, obtained exclusively by CNN from eyewitness Nihad Owdetallah, shows several casualties scattered on the floor, including children, with blood streaming around the area.Dozens of people appear to be running around in panic, screaming and trying to count and carry the dead bodies. A foosball table covered in dust is seen among the dead bodies.Owdetallah, who lives in the camp, told CNN he heard an explosion at around 3:40 p.m. local time on Tuesday around 30 to 40 meters away from him.“I immediately walked to see what happened and found dead...
April 17, 2024

At least 13 killed, including 7 children, after strike on Gaza’s Al-Maghazi refugee camp

Josep Borrell speaks after a VTC meeting of EU foreign ministers, 16 April 2024
European Union looking to expand sanctions on Iran after attack on Israel
BRUSSELS — The European Union will "start the necessary work" to hit Iran with heavier sanctions after Saturday's aerial attack on Israel, the bloc's top diplomat has said.Speaking following an exceptional virtual meeting of EU foreign ministers on Tuesday, Josep Borrell said he would ask his services to study the possibility of expanding existing EU sanctions against Iranian drone technology.It would see the current sanctions regime, established in July 2023 to punish Iran for aiding Putin's war machine with unmanned drones, expanded to include missiles and to also cover Iran's proxies in the region.The bloc would also weigh the possibility of listing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, he said, while stressing that such a move would be...
April 17, 2024

European Union looking to expand sanctions on Iran after attack on Israel

Children receive treatment in a temporary field hospital in Mouraj, a neighborhood in the south of the Gaza Strip. — courtesy WHO/Christopher Black
Gaza: No letup in deadly toll as rights chief demands end to suffering
GAZA — Nearly 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since war erupted six months ago and one child is injured or dies every 10 minutes, UN agencies warned on Tuesday, amid spiraling violence in the West Bank and concerns over a regional escalation of the conflict following Iran’s missile and drone strike on Israel.“Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned,” said UN Women, in a new report.“More than one million women and girls in Gaza have almost no food, no access to safe water, latrines, washrooms, or sanitary pads, with disease growing amidst inhumane living conditions.”Echoing those concerns, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new ceasefire call so that...
April 16, 2024

Gaza: No letup in deadly toll as rights chief demands end to suffering

Heavy rains and strong winds lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, transforming streets into rivers and even submerging a runway at Dubai Airport.
Dubai Airport runway submerged as heavy rains batter UAE
DUBAI — Heavy rains and strong winds lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, transforming streets into rivers and even submerging a runway at Dubai Airport.Social media platforms were flooded with images and videos showcasing the deluge and its aftermath, as daylight turned to darkness by mid-afternoon amidst the downpour.Images captured the alarming rise in water levels at Dubai Airport, where planes stood grounded on what appeared to be a makeshift waterway rather than a functioning runway.Airport operations were temporarily halted for 25 minutes due to the severe storm, impacting both arrivals and departures.Flydubai, a prominent airline based in Dubai, announced flight disruptions and cancelations as a result of the volatile weather conditions.Meanwhile, the National Center of...
April 16, 2024

Dubai Airport runway submerged as heavy rains batter UAE

Israel's war cabinet met Sunday but did not reach a decision on how to respond
Israel delays Rafah offensive plans amid heated debate over response to Iranian attack
TEL AVIV — Israel was set to take its first steps towards a ground offensive on the Gaza city of Rafah but delayed that campaign after Iran’s weekend attack on their country, which has sparked a heated debate in the war cabinet over how to respond, Israeli sources have told CNN.The Israeli Air Force was set to begin dropping leaflets on parts of Rafah on Monday, two Israeli sources said, amid preparations for a ground offensive into Gaza’s southernmost city where more than 1 million people are sheltering.Those plans were paused after a retaliatory weekend attack from Iran, which saw more than 300 projectiles fired toward Israel, the vast majority of which were intercepted by Israel and its partners.One Israeli official said Israel remains determined to carry out a ground offensive in...
April 16, 2024

Israel delays Rafah offensive plans amid heated debate over response to Iranian attack

The Omani government has suspended work in five governorates following flash floods
At least 17 dead after flash floods in Oman
MUSCAT — At least 17 people have died in flash floods triggered by heavy rain across Oman since Sunday, the country’s National Committee for Emergency Management (NCEM) reports.On Tuesday, the government suspended the work of employees and workers in the public and private sectors in five governorates, including Musandam, Al Buraimi, Al Dhahirah, and Al Dakhiliyah, due to the weather conditions.The government has allowed employees to work remotely if possible.Authorities in Oman are conducting “rescue operations” after announcing all schools in six governorates including Muscat, would be closed Monday “due to unstable weather conditions,” according to a Monday UNOCHA statement.Moderate heavy rainfall is expected across north-eastern and northern Oman over the next few days. —...
April 16, 2024

At least 17 dead after flash floods in Oman

A United Nations team inspects the grounds of Al-Shifa hospital after an Israeli raid on April 8
Fifteen more bodies recovered from Al-Shifa hospital area after Israeli withdrawal
GAZA — Fifteen bodies were recovered on Monday from around Al-Shifa hospital following the withdrawal of the Israeli military from the area two weeks ago, Gaza residents and medical crews told CNN.Health workers and residents in northern Gaza have been searching and digging for what they believe are mass graves and looking for their loved ones, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of the complex.“We were called today to extract the bodies that are buried inside Al-Shifa medical complex. We came here at 9 a.m. with an excavator and excavated 15 bodies,” Adel Al-Mash-Harawi, an ambulance driver from Gaza told CNN from the site of the excavation.Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from areas...
April 16, 2024

Fifteen more bodies recovered from Al-Shifa hospital area after Israeli withdrawal

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
China notes Iran's position on Israel attack and does not condemn strikes
BEIJING — China said it noted Iran’s statement that the actions against Israel were an “exercise of the right of self-defense” during a phone call between the foreign ministers of the two nations on Monday, and did not condemn the weekend strikes.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian that China condemned the attack on a consulate building in the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, according to a statement issued by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The Chinese foreign minister added the incident “seriously violates international law and is unacceptable.”“China has noted Iran's statement that the actions it took were limited and it was an exercise of the right of self-defense in response to the attack on the embassy...
April 16, 2024

China notes Iran's position on Israel attack and does not condemn strikes

 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Tel Aviv must do everything necessary to protect the state.
We will do whatever is necessary to protect Israel, IDF says
TEL AVIV — Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Tel Aviv must do everything necessary to protect the state "at the time and in the way we in Israel choose to do so".Hagari said the Iranian attack was "thwarted with the iron defense campaign," adding that it counted on an "unprecedented coalition" from the UK, US, France and other countries, which "not only thwarted but truly prevented that attack".At least nine countries were involved in the military escalation — with projectiles fired from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen and downed by Israel, the US, the UK and Jordan.Some 99% of the incoming barrage was intercepted either outside Israeli airspace or over the country itself, Hagari had previously said.Speaking to reporters from...
April 15, 2024

We will do whatever is necessary to protect Israel, IDF says

Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has been named Kuwait's new prime minister.
Kuwait emir picks Sheikh Ahmad to form new government
KUWAIT — Kuwait Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah assigned Monday Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as prime minister.Sheikh Mishal tasked the former oil minister with forming a new government, state media reported, after the latest parliamentary polls in the Gulf stateThe Emir, in an Emiri Order, assigned Sheikh Ahmad to form a government to submit the names of the ministers to be appointed.The Emir instructed the prime minister to inform the National Assembly and stated that the order will take effect once published in the official gazette."Today an Emiri order was issued appointing Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as prime minister and assigning him to nominate members of the new Cabinet," the Kuwait News Agency said.The move comes just a few months...
April 15, 2024

Kuwait emir picks Sheikh Ahmad to form new government

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