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Beijing, Oct 23 (UNI) Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu in a statement to Sputnik on Sunday called for an end to groundless hyping of deployment of Chinese warships to the Middle East amid the Israel-Gaza conflict. Six Chinese warships, including a guided-missile destroyer, have been operating in the Middle East since last week, which included…

Jerusalem, Oct 23 (UNI) Israel will not transfer any humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and will also prevent any uncontrolled supplies from other countries, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. “Israel will not provide any humanitarian aid to Gaza and will prevent any unsupervised supply from others,” the office was quoted as saying…

Gaza, Oct 23 (UNI) The death toll from the Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has reached 30 people, Al Jazeera broadcaster reported, citing local civil defense forces, adding that most of the victims are women and children. On Sunday, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that 13 people were killed and…

Gaza, Oct 22 (UNI) The death toll of Palestinians from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 4,651, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Sunday. Meanwhile, 14,245 Palestinians were wounded in the coastal enclave, the ministry said in a statement. Among the victims, 1,873 were children and 1,023 were women, it added. At…

Tel Aviv, Oct 22 (UNI) The number of people held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has again increased to 212 despite efforts by a number of countries to ensure exchange of hostages and prisoners between the Palestinian movement and Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Sunday. On Saturday, the…

Ankara, Oct 22 (UNI) Turkey will send a plane with medicines and medical specialists to Egypt on Sunday to help refugees from the Gaza Strip, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday. “To provide aid to Gaza, a plane belonging to our Presidency is leaving tomorrow morning for Egypt with medicine and medical consumables. There…

Jerusalem, Oct 22 (UNI) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that it carried out an airstrike on an underground complex located under the Al-Ansar mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin, adding that the site was used by members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements. “In a joint IDF and ISA [Israel…

United Nations, Oct 22 (UNI) The United States has distributed to the UN Security Council a draft resolution on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, condemning Hamas and recognizing Israel’s right to self-defense, but not calling for a ceasefire, a source in the Security Council told Sputnik. “The US has distributed a draft about an…

Gaza, Oct 22 (UNI) At least 10 people were killed and dozens were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a cafe in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. On the same day, the news agency reported that 29 people were killed as a result of Israeli…

Moscow, Oct 21 (UNI) The Russian armed forces have repelled 10 attacks by the Ukrainian military in the Krasnyi Lyman direction over the past 24 hours, with Kiev losing up to 100 servicepeople in this direction as a result, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. “Coordinated actions of the units of the central group…