China has expressed worry about the situation in the Gaza Strip after Israel unleashed massive airstrikes against Hamas militants overnight. China said it is “extremely concerned” and hopes all sides support the effective implementation of the ceasefire, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning in Beijing on Tuesday. She said the parties should avoid actions that…
Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Israeli army said that two suspects approached Israeli troops in the south of the Gaza Strip and posed an immediate threat, prompting the soldiers to fire at them. The fatal incident took…
U.S. President Donald Trump has released a video generated by artificial intelligence (AI) promoting his vision for the future of the Gaza Strip. The 30-second clip, shared on the president’s Truth Social platform on Wednesday, begins with images of fighters and children in ragged clothes among ruins with the caption “Gaza 2025.” The scenery then…
The U.S. freeze on aid has left the World Health Organisation (WHO) without 46 million dollars to evacuate seriously ill patients from Gaza and rebuild damaged hospitals in the coastal strip A representative of the organisation said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters via video link from the Gaza Strip, Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO coordinator for…
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Palestinian Authority (PA) in the Gaza Strip, stressing his commitment to controversial plans for the war-torn Palestinian territory by U.S. President Donald Trump. “Just as I have committed to, on the day after the war in Gaza, there will be neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority,” Netanyahu said in…
Saudi Arabia to host a high-level summit that brings together leaders from across the Arab world, as discussions intensify over the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Leaders from Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf States are expected in Riyadh on Friday, Arab diplomatic circles said. The summit would focus on Egypt’s proposal to rebuild the devastated…
In the face of pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Egypt has announced its own reconstruction plan for the largely destroyed Gaza Strip. “Egypt expresses its aspiration to cooperate with the U.S. administration to achieve a comprehensive and just peace in the region by reaching a just settlement of the Palestinian. “This is the cause…
Jordan is ready to receive 2,000 sick Gaza children for medical treatment, as the healthcare system in the coastal enclave has been devastated, Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan announced on Wednesday. Hassan reaffirmed Jordan’s clear and unwavering position that there should be no resettlement nor displacement of Palestinians. No solutions to the Palestinian issue should come…
North Korean state media on Wednesday blasted the United States for President Donald Trump’s plan to redevelop the Gaza Strip by taking over the war-ruined territory and resettling residents elsewhere. “The world is now seething with the U.S. ‘bomb declaration’,” the state-controlled KCNA news agency said on its English language website, without naming Trump. “The…
President Donald Trump once again brushed aside international outrage over his plan to take control of Gaza, saying the United States could help transform it into a “diamond.” “We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it, we’re going to cherish it,” Trump said during a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the…
