UN chief Antonio Guterres highlights Israel's war on Gaza, attacks on Lebanon and Israel’s illegal settlements as he criticised the ‘growing level of impunity in the world’ in his opening address at the annual UN General Assembly.
We South Africans know what apartheid looks like.
We lived through it. We suffered and died under it.
We will not remain silent and watch as apartheid is perpetrated against others.
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Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has called Israel’s war on Gaza ‘the most barbaric, heinous and extensive aggression’ and accused Israel of committing 'genocide' during his address at the UN's General Assembly.
The Middle East is on the verge of massive escalation involving several countries.
The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, vowed that the US would intervene in the war to protect Israel.
But neither the President nor VP have said a word about this. Who is running the US Govt?
BREAKING: IRAN IMPLEMENTS FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS AND SCHEDULES MILITARY DRILLS
Iran has released several Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) announcing temporary airspace restrictions and planned military activities within the Tehran Flight Information Region (FIR) on August 1, 2024.
These measures indicate a state of increased military preparedness or upcoming exercises, potentially affecting both commercial and general aviation traffic.
In the last 48 hours alone, Israel has dropped bombs on:
Palestine 🇵🇸
Lebanon 🇱🇧
Syria 🇸🇾
Iran 🇮🇷
Not a peep from the “international community”, of course.
This is the moment Al Jazeera Arabic broke the news of the death of their colleague, Ismail al-Ghoul.
Ismail was killed, along with his cameraman Ramy al-Rify, by an Israeli airstrike while reporting from northern Gaza.
I am not ashamed to stand in front of the camera and say I am hungry. Many children ask me for something to eat, not knowing that like them, I cannot sleep at night due to hunger.
- Journalist: Ismail Alghoul.
"Ismail wasn't only a journalist, but he was also trying his best to help the people, to help feed people, and [get] medicine..."
Colleagues of Al Jazeera's Ismail Al Ghoul praise his legacy in Gaza before his assassination by Israeli forces, along with cameraman Rami Al Rifi.
.@WHO and partners managed to reach Al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in #Gaza, which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege. The team witnessed at least five dead bodies during the mission.
Most of the buildings in the hospital complex are extensively destroyed and the majority of assets damaged or reduced to ashes. Even restoring minimal functionality in the short term seems implausible. An in-depth assessment by a team of engineers is needed to determine if the remaining buildings are safe for future use.
WHO and partners’ recent effort to support the revival of basic services at Al-Shifa are now lost, and people are once again deprived of access to lifesaving health care services.
As famine looms, disease outbreaks spread, and trauma injuries increase, WHO urges immediate:
- protection of remaining health facilities in Gaza
- protection of health and humanitarian workers
- additional land crossings to allow access into and across north Gaza
- functional deconfliction mechanism
- unimpeded access of humanitarian aid into and across the Gaza Strip
- ceasefire.
ISRAEL'S SYSTEMATIC ATTACKS ON HEALTH CARE: Between Oct 7 and Feb 12, ISrael committed 378 attacks on Palestinian health care in Gaza, killing 659 people, half of them health care workers, and wounding 843 people. Here are the facts…Dr. Mads.
Dr. Hamdi Baroud was an esteemed professor of law and previous dean at Al-Azhar University. He was abducted from Khan-Younis by the IOF on January 27.
Today his deceased body was found in an area where the Israeli army recently withdrew from, riddled with bullet wounds.
You slaughter our people. You starve our people.
You slaughter the people that try to feed our people.
And no I’m not just talking about Israel. I’m talking about @POTUS who keeps sending them the money and weapons to do it while also making sure they face no consequences.